Speakers:
Yasemin Soysal, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
Hector Cebolla Boado, Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Dorothee Schneider, Senior Research Officer, University of Essex
Overcoming Curriculum Challenges: Linking Global Internships to Academic Cour...CIEE
Demand for international experiences that enhance employability is higher than ever. Universities feel the pressure from students, alumni, government, parents, and employers. However, the link between global internships and academic coursework is at best underutilized and at worst a barrier. This session will review general concepts and context regarding global internships and provide two academic internship frameworks that can be used to develop or describe program models. Presenters will share case studies and specific examples that demonstrate program models and components linking global internships to academic coursework.
Is western Europe still relevant as a destination for research, study, and internships, or have American institutions turned their global focus elsewhere? This session will feature participants from three very different institutions: A large, private research university; a small, undergraduate liberal arts college; and a small satellite campus in Europe of a large, public research university. We'll present academic research and statistics from the field in general, and three case studies showcasing how western Europe is currently "faring" in institutional global strategies. Attendees will be invited to share their strategies and engagement with the region as well.
Ten Ways you can Support Undergraduate Research in STEM and BeyondCIEE
This session will focus on steps study abroad professionals can implement before, during, and after a student's study abroad experience to support undergraduate research abroad. Panelists will provide an overview of the state of support for undergraduate research, and, based on the strengths and weaknesses of current practice, make 10 suggestions to improve the research experience for students studying abroad. Attendees will be able to understand current successes and challenges in supporting students as they conduct research during study abroad and identify ways study abroad professionals can help.
Scholarship Symposium Presentation: International Student Recruitment: Purpos...Breanne Vailes, LSW
In this research paper and presentation, I examined the literature and historical data regarding international student recruitment and how to effectively implement it at the university.
Immediacy, Engagement, and Immersion: Critical Pedagogy and the Study Abroad ...CIEE
Intentional, critically informed pedagogies are a means of developing and shaping the kinds of transformative experiences students should have. While much of the work in the field of international education emphasizes formal assessments, we’ll focus on critical pedagogy and how to best shape experiences that promote experiential learning, immediacy, engagement, and immersion that is both self-reflexive and respectful. We’ll consider approaches and methodologies that can be used for specific study abroad programs and the ways in which an ethos of deeply intercultural and experiential learning can inform campus and curriculum internationalization efforts.
Overcoming Curriculum Challenges: Linking Global Internships to Academic Cour...CIEE
Demand for international experiences that enhance employability is higher than ever. Universities feel the pressure from students, alumni, government, parents, and employers. However, the link between global internships and academic coursework is at best underutilized and at worst a barrier. This session will review general concepts and context regarding global internships and provide two academic internship frameworks that can be used to develop or describe program models. Presenters will share case studies and specific examples that demonstrate program models and components linking global internships to academic coursework.
Is western Europe still relevant as a destination for research, study, and internships, or have American institutions turned their global focus elsewhere? This session will feature participants from three very different institutions: A large, private research university; a small, undergraduate liberal arts college; and a small satellite campus in Europe of a large, public research university. We'll present academic research and statistics from the field in general, and three case studies showcasing how western Europe is currently "faring" in institutional global strategies. Attendees will be invited to share their strategies and engagement with the region as well.
Ten Ways you can Support Undergraduate Research in STEM and BeyondCIEE
This session will focus on steps study abroad professionals can implement before, during, and after a student's study abroad experience to support undergraduate research abroad. Panelists will provide an overview of the state of support for undergraduate research, and, based on the strengths and weaknesses of current practice, make 10 suggestions to improve the research experience for students studying abroad. Attendees will be able to understand current successes and challenges in supporting students as they conduct research during study abroad and identify ways study abroad professionals can help.
Scholarship Symposium Presentation: International Student Recruitment: Purpos...Breanne Vailes, LSW
In this research paper and presentation, I examined the literature and historical data regarding international student recruitment and how to effectively implement it at the university.
Immediacy, Engagement, and Immersion: Critical Pedagogy and the Study Abroad ...CIEE
Intentional, critically informed pedagogies are a means of developing and shaping the kinds of transformative experiences students should have. While much of the work in the field of international education emphasizes formal assessments, we’ll focus on critical pedagogy and how to best shape experiences that promote experiential learning, immediacy, engagement, and immersion that is both self-reflexive and respectful. We’ll consider approaches and methodologies that can be used for specific study abroad programs and the ways in which an ethos of deeply intercultural and experiential learning can inform campus and curriculum internationalization efforts.
University rankings; an overview for the municipality of Delft July 2013Kim Huijpen
I gave this presentation for several strategic policy advisor the municipality of Delft in the ‘Metropoollab’.
Thanks to Johan Verweij & Jan Salden
I elaborated on Johans presentations & used U-Multirank sheets of Jan.
Presentation to DC Higher Education Group on the State of the HumanitiesRobert Townsend
Presentation to the DC Higher Education Group on the state of the humanities, with recent findings from the department survey and Humanities Indicators.
Competition over research funds and junior researchers in Japanese universiti...Masatsura IGAMI
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Japan conducted a survey to corresponding authors, affiliated with Japanese organizations, of the scientific publications published during the period of 2004 to 2012. The survey asked about research funds and teams of research activities that produced scientific publications (the number of respondents is about 11 thousand and response rate is 53%).
The analyses of the survey revealed that research funds and teams that used in research activities vary depending on the affiliation sector and the affiliation university group that was defined by the publication share in Japan. The percentage of research activities that used extramural funds is the largest in the university group that has the largest publication share and tends to be smaller in the university groups with smaller publication share; however, the percentage of research activities that used extramural funds has been increasing in all university groups reflecting the increasing of the competitive funds in Japanese system. Analyses of the team composition show that junior researchers (bachelor/master’s students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows) are involved in the majority of research activities in universities; and therefore, the junior researchers play a crucial role in research. Each percentage of the involvement of the bachelor/master’s students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows also differs among the university groups and the research field. We also found that citation counts of the scientific publications correlates with both research funds and team composition.
In Japan, the number of doctoral course entrants has been decreasing ever since 2004 and weight of competitive funding has been increasing in the past decade, therefore our results suggest that how to attract and train junior researchers and secure stable funding are crucial to preserve research capability both in Japanese universities and academic societies.
Workshop given at ASET Annual Conference, Cardiff 2007.
The workshop examines the expectations and attitudes of both students and employers to work placements as part of the undergraduate curriculum.
Guiding to Graduate Schools Workshop| materials.
The workshop (Oct. 18, 2017 @ Kean University, Wenzhou, China) is for helping undergraduate students to choose and apply Graduates schools.
Speakers:
Dr. Jahidur Rahman (PhD, City University of Hong-Kong)
Dr. Candy Lim Chiu (PhD, Kyoto University, Japan)
Dr. Mohammad Mousavi (PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Dr. Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Full story is accessible at http://leadershipcenter.tistory.com/445
Higher Education in the Age of GlobalizationShigeharu Kato
Special Lecture at the 20th Tri-University International Joint Seminar and Symposium on October 29 at Mie University, Japan
- The Role of Asia for Innovative Globalization -
http://www.cc.mie-u.ac.jp/~lq20106/eg5005/Tri-U%202013/index.html
Making the most of research: How boarding can benefit from meaningful researc...Ninti_One
At the July 2015 Conference of Boarding Australia, Tessa Benveniste presented on the topics of
1) Research as an evolving practice
2) Existing Research in Boarding
3) Current research in boarding
4) Applying research to practice
University rankings; an overview for the municipality of Delft July 2013Kim Huijpen
I gave this presentation for several strategic policy advisor the municipality of Delft in the ‘Metropoollab’.
Thanks to Johan Verweij & Jan Salden
I elaborated on Johans presentations & used U-Multirank sheets of Jan.
Presentation to DC Higher Education Group on the State of the HumanitiesRobert Townsend
Presentation to the DC Higher Education Group on the state of the humanities, with recent findings from the department survey and Humanities Indicators.
Competition over research funds and junior researchers in Japanese universiti...Masatsura IGAMI
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Japan conducted a survey to corresponding authors, affiliated with Japanese organizations, of the scientific publications published during the period of 2004 to 2012. The survey asked about research funds and teams of research activities that produced scientific publications (the number of respondents is about 11 thousand and response rate is 53%).
The analyses of the survey revealed that research funds and teams that used in research activities vary depending on the affiliation sector and the affiliation university group that was defined by the publication share in Japan. The percentage of research activities that used extramural funds is the largest in the university group that has the largest publication share and tends to be smaller in the university groups with smaller publication share; however, the percentage of research activities that used extramural funds has been increasing in all university groups reflecting the increasing of the competitive funds in Japanese system. Analyses of the team composition show that junior researchers (bachelor/master’s students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows) are involved in the majority of research activities in universities; and therefore, the junior researchers play a crucial role in research. Each percentage of the involvement of the bachelor/master’s students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows also differs among the university groups and the research field. We also found that citation counts of the scientific publications correlates with both research funds and team composition.
In Japan, the number of doctoral course entrants has been decreasing ever since 2004 and weight of competitive funding has been increasing in the past decade, therefore our results suggest that how to attract and train junior researchers and secure stable funding are crucial to preserve research capability both in Japanese universities and academic societies.
Workshop given at ASET Annual Conference, Cardiff 2007.
The workshop examines the expectations and attitudes of both students and employers to work placements as part of the undergraduate curriculum.
Guiding to Graduate Schools Workshop| materials.
The workshop (Oct. 18, 2017 @ Kean University, Wenzhou, China) is for helping undergraduate students to choose and apply Graduates schools.
Speakers:
Dr. Jahidur Rahman (PhD, City University of Hong-Kong)
Dr. Candy Lim Chiu (PhD, Kyoto University, Japan)
Dr. Mohammad Mousavi (PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Dr. Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Full story is accessible at http://leadershipcenter.tistory.com/445
Higher Education in the Age of GlobalizationShigeharu Kato
Special Lecture at the 20th Tri-University International Joint Seminar and Symposium on October 29 at Mie University, Japan
- The Role of Asia for Innovative Globalization -
http://www.cc.mie-u.ac.jp/~lq20106/eg5005/Tri-U%202013/index.html
Making the most of research: How boarding can benefit from meaningful researc...Ninti_One
At the July 2015 Conference of Boarding Australia, Tessa Benveniste presented on the topics of
1) Research as an evolving practice
2) Existing Research in Boarding
3) Current research in boarding
4) Applying research to practice
An approach to building a community at St George’s,
University of London.
Dr Mohani-Preet Kaur Dhillon, Dr Carwyn Rhys Hooper and Dr Mark Bodman-Smith.
During a fishbowl session at EAIE 2016 in Liverpool, StudyPortals and Hobsons hosted a session on how students decide where to study. Providing insights into the decision-making process of students, including tips on how to better position your institution based on an analysis of this data.
From research student to academic: thinking about and preparing for academic ...Joss Winn
Preparing for academic life (or not). See also: http://josswinn.org/2015/07/from-research-student-to-academic-thinking-about-and-preparing-for-academic-work/
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A theoretical Framework on Inflation and Retirement:
Improvements in longevity as well as declining fertility rates have led to an aging demographic across developed nations. These tendencies, alongside several decades of low inflation have led to shifts in pension and retirement policies across developed nations. It goes without saying that Retirement security remains a shared concern, one that has heightened as inflation has returned to the global landscape, adding further uncertainty to the financial security of retirees. From a policy perspective, monetary policy is the most blunt tool within the macroeconomic toolkit whereas retirement has increasingly become a household-level savings, investment and decumulation problem. Given the dependency of policy on inflation expectations and that of inflation expectations on household-level decision-making, we present elements of an incipient framework that may be used to integrate household and firm-level decision making into the contemporary macroeconomic policy toolkit.
The Finnish and Swedish accessions to NATO—even though incomplete as of now—have been interpreted in some corners as the beginning of the end for neutrality. Not picking sides in a war of aggression is untenable, they hold, cheering the decisions of some former neutrals to give up their signature foreign policies while berating those who still do not send weapons to Ukraine or sanction Russia. Whatever one’s stance on the policy side is, one point has been lost in the debate: neutrality is not a question of ideology but a fact of conflict dynamics. It just won’t go away. Not even the two World Wars or the 40 years of the Cold War could get rid of the “fence-sitters.”
Neutrality, always and everywhere, is a reaction to conflict(s). The current one over Ukraine is no exception, giving rise to neutral policies in roughly two-thirds of the world. It is a moot question if there should be neutrality or not. Nonaligned behavior of third-party states is a fact of international life and will remain one. There are really only two questions that matter: First, which neutrals will leave the stage, and which ones will be born? Second, will the neutrals play a constructive role in the new global conflict, or will they be relegated to the margins?
This talk will disentangle the neutrality debate by differentiating the legal components from the political and strategic aspects and discuss recent neutrality developments in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Dual citizenship was once universally reviled as a moral abomination, then largely marginalized as an anomaly. During the twentieth century, states were able to police the status and manage incidental costs to the extent that full suppression proved impossible. More recent decades have seen wide acceptance of dual citizenship as those costs dissipated for both states and individuals. Powerful nonresident citizen communities have played a crucial role in winning recognition of the status. A handful of states -- Japan notable among them -- have held out against this clear trend and increasingly vocal emigrant and immigrant constituencies and children of bi-national couples. This session will situate Japan's resistance to dual citizenship in a global historical context.
November 28, 2022
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has given the go-ahead for a major redevelopment of Jingu Gaien, the cluster of sports facilities and green space adjacent to the National Stadium in Sendagaya. The project has recently become a focus of attention in Tokyo, with many people from across the political spectrum speaking out with concerns about the project.
The redevelopment plan is made possible by a loosening of height restrictions in the area that was implemented in conjunction with the Olympics, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was involved in conceptualization of the plan. The redevelopment will eliminate nearly a thousand trees, two historic stadiums and several public sports facilities, and put in three high rise office buildings.
In this presentation activist Rochelle Kopp will describe the various concerns and issues related to the Jingu Gaien redevelopment project and how she and some other activists and academics are speaking out against the plan and urging that Governor Koike withdraw it and start over with input from the public and experts.
November 17, 2022
8 November 2022 was the last day of voting for the US midterm elections. These elections reflected the mood of American voters and give us some idea of the future course of American policy and of the political and ideological balance of power in the United States. They will also affect the ability of the Biden Administration to pursue its agenda.
Professor Yashiro, one of Japan's leading economists, will look at the results of Abenomics (a term coined to describe Japan's economic policy while Shinzo Abe was premier) and Prime Minister Kishida's plans for what he calls a "New Capitalism."
Observers of Japanese security and foreign policies have largely focused on analyzing Japanese policies in the area of traditional security. However, they would be remiss to disregard the string of new developments that have been occurring in Japan – namely that of “economic security.”
Prompted by rising U.S.-China competition, Japan has been undergoing rapid change in its economic security policies over the last few years. These changes range from organizational transformation to new legislation as well as increasing support for the private sector. This trend is likely to accelerate under the incoming Kishida administration, which has created a new ministerial post for economic security.
How has Japan’s economic security policy evolved in the last few years? What kind of changes will we likely see in Japan’s economic security policies under the Kishida administration? What impact will this “economic security awakening” in Japan have on Japan-U.S. and Japan-China relations? How should Japan cooperate with other key actors, such as the European Union, the Quad countries, the Five Eyes states, and Southeast Asian countries?
This seminar will address these critical questions and more with Akira Igata, who has been advising international organizations, the Japanese government, bureaucracy, and the private sector in economic security issues for many years.
Speaker Biography:
Akira Igata is Executive Director and Visiting Professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama University. He is also the Economic Security Advisor for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and Senior Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum, a U.S.-based think tank. He advises Japan’s bureaucracy, politicians, and private sector as well as international organizations on economic security issues.
A half a year ago, the prospect of an LDP presidential election did not inspire flights of the imagination. After all, what could break the hammerlock the top three party factions – the Hosoda, the Aso and the Nikai – had upon the process of selecting the party leader? Who or what could outmaneuver the wily LDP Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro, whom two prime ministers in a row found themselves powerless to budge from his post at the apex of the party’s secretariat?
Over the summer of 2021, however, several factors became catalysts for changes in the party’s internal power structures. A presidential campaign like any other had unfolded, with the faction leaders and the party’s senior officials left gasping as erstwhile subordinates have run away with the narrative and the initiative. So many assumptions about how the LDP “works” have been challenged that the unprecedented situation of half of the candidates being women has been largely subsumed.
What will we have learned from this election? Michael Cucek will offer his views, along with suggestions of avenues of future research into the contemporary LDP.
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth and Inequality in India
Speaker:
Anthony P. D’Costa, Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics College of Business, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Japan and Russia: Contemporary Political, Economic, and Military Relations
Speaker: Yu Koizumi, Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo
Presentation: Russian Military Posture in Northern Territory
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Speaker: Elena Shadrina, Associate Professor, Waseda University
Presentation: What to Expect for Russia-Japan Relations: Contemplation against a Backdrop of Social and Economic Situation in Russia
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Speaker: James D. J. Brown, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan Campus
Presentation: Japan-Russia Joint Economic Projects on the Disputed Islands: What are they good for?
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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2. BRIGHT FUTURES
THE STUDY
• Collaborative project by researchers from four universities in UK, Germany and China
Project team:
Principal Investigator: Yasemin Soysal (University of Essex)
Co-Investigators: Hector Cebolla-Boado (UNED); Liu Jingming (Tsinghua University), Thomas
Faist (Bielefeld University), Sophia Woodman (University of Edinburgh), and Senior
researcher: Dr. Dorothee Schneider
• Funded jointly by the ESRC, UK; DFG, Germany; and NSFC, China
Bright Future Survey:
• The first ever large-scale (over a sample size of 8000), representative database on Chineseand
Japanese higher education students in origin (China and Japan) and multiple destination
countries (UK, Germany, and Japan)
3. BRIGHT FUTURES
SURVEY
• Chinese international students in UK, Germany
and Japan
• Comparison samples of:
Japanese international students
Chinese students in China
British/German/Japanese home students
• Survey fieldwork April 2017 to April 2018
Two-stage probability sample in Europe
• Stratified universities into groups by ranking and number of Chinese students
• In each university all Chinese undergraduate and masters students or random sample
• Similar sampling in China; quota sampling in Japan
• Questionnaires in Chinese/Japanese/English/German, depending on group
sample UK DE China Japan Total
Chinese 1,345 727 2,740 492 5,304
Japanese 295 61 0 389 745
Native 1,620 398 0 0 2,018
Total 3,260 1,186 2,740 881 8,067
4. "I leave, I see, I learn and I return to shape China"
Source: Zhang Junmian, China.org.cn, December 24, 2011
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1872 first Chinese government sponsored study-abroad program to the US
1870s and 1880s Chinese scholars and students were also sent to Europe
and Japan
by 1910 more than 20,000 government or self-sponsored Chinese scholars
and students in Japan – Japan as a model of “western modernity”
Between 1950 and 1960, more than 10,000 Chinese students / scholars
went to the Soviet Union to study
5. from “Catch up to the West/ Modernity” to “Be Part of the Global”
One-fifth of globally mobile students are Chinese, enrolled in universities in more than 100 countries..
But also about 400,000 students from more than 200 countries enrolled in Chinese universities ..
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6. Diverging trajectories of Chinese and Japanese HE student flows to the UK—over time trend : different timing of HE
enrollment expansion and internationalization of education
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7. Conventional theories of International Education (IE)
Human capital perspectives:
Differentials in educational offerings and returns to education between
origin and receiving countries
Cultural and social capital perspectives:
Elite reproduction of distinction and advantage (Bourdieusian logic of capital
conversion)
Strategic investment (in global skills and cultural dispositions) by students
and their families for material and symbolic gain—building careers and
status are the main motivations
Overlooks the broader transformations: transnationalized higher education
field
8. • Historically linked with the trajectory of nation-building
and development HE as a national institution, with
distinct national profiles and structures, embedded within
distinct national policy agendas and cultural traditions
• From the 2000s on increasing embeddedness of HE
systems within a transnational framework of competition,
facilitated by world rankings and excellence initiatives
Transnational higher education field
Convergence of universities around similar core
missions and policies
Convergence of HE student aspirations and
expectations
9. Motivations (Why study abroad?)
Future plans
Selectivity: who goes abroad? (Individuality traits, social background)
10. How important were the following in your decision to study
abroad? (% very or extremely important)
• Why study abroad?
Rather than a narrow focus
on enhancing career
prospects, motivations
reflect the ideal of a HE
student having broad
aspirations, pro-active, open
(to the world and others),
and aware of their
individuality—shared by all
student groups
Motivations
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Be part of global world
Gain world class education
Realize worth as a person
Meeting people from different backgrounds
Enhance career prospects
Gain new experiences
CNS in Europe CNS in Japan JPS in Europe
11. Academic backgrounds
CHINESE
• Prior performance of Chinese students
studying in Europe is as varied as that
of those studying in China
• Around a third of Chinese students
going abroad are low to average
performance
• In Japan, there is slightly fewer top
Chinese students compared to Europe
Ranking in high school class
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
near top
above average
average
below average
near bottom
CNS in Japan CNS in Europe CNS in China
12. Academic backgrounds
JAPANESE
• Almost 40% Japanese students in
Europe from low to average levels of
performance
Ranking in high school class
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
near top
above average
average
below average
near bottom
JPS in Japan JPS in Europe
13. Future plans
CHINESE
• Majority of Chinese undergraduates
in Europe plan to continue studying
after current degree
• less in Japan – over half plan to work
• If planning to continue studying most
Chinese plan to study in the same
country where they currently study
What do you plan to do after completing your current degree?
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Europe
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Japan
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China
Continue studying Work other or don't know
UG PGT
14. Future plans
JAPANESE
• In contrast to Chinese, Japanese
undergraduates, whether abroad or
at home, don’t plan to continue
studying after current degree
• Reflects the labour market conditions
What do you plan to do after completing your current
degree?
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15. Future plans
WORK LOCATION
Planned work location after graduation
• Chinese students in Japan and
Germany are more open to
staying for work after graduation
• Chinese students in UK least
likely to plan stay —‘hostile
environment’ combines with
elimination of post-study work
visa regimes
• Japanese students in Europe
have broadly similar plans to
stay in Europe after graduation
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CNS UK CNS DE CNS in Japan
In COUNTRY OF STUDY Maybe in COUNTRY OF STUDY
In HOME COUNTRY maybe in HOME COUNTRY
in another country Haven't decided yet at all
17. Confounders in migration research
• Difficulties to isolate the effect of migration on specific integration
outcomes from that of confounders, which simultaneously create a
push for migration.
• Migration as a shock: migration has an impact
• Migrants compare to natives in destination
• No causal connection between migration and migrant/native-born, but
selection:
• Migrants compared to natives in origin (Massey and Zenteno 2000, Garip 2016, Guveli
et al. 2016, Mussino, Tervola, and Duvander 2018)
18. Expanding research on selection
• Migrants self-selected population not representative of population in
origin (Chiswick 1999) to explain integration paradoxes such as
migrant educational optimism or healthy immigrant effect.
• Observable selectivity is increasingly addressed.
• Social background: education, social status, income, and family background (Ichou 2014,
Feliciano and Lanuza 2016, 2017; van de Werfhorst and Heath 2018).
• Unobserved characteristics: we know less.
• International surveys such as the European Social Survey and World Values Survey to
explore migrant/non migrant differentials in achievement-related motivational
orientations (Polavieja, Ramos, and Fernández 2018).
• Data from countries of origin to explore differences between prospective migrants while
still in origin and those who do not intend to migrate (Cebolla-Boado and Soysal 2017).
19. Expectations
• Selection on unobservables
• H1 Positive selection of international students by parental social background
• Bourdieusian understandings of IE as some form of capital generating investment that will
provide returns in future careers
• Selection on unobservables
• H2: Migration research suggests a selection bias among those who make the move
in terms of unobservables
• H3: Transnationalized higher education affects self-orientations and perceptions of
not only those who migrate for their education but also those who stay, so we
expect little to no selection
• Contemporary higher education places on standardized models of agentic individuality:
expanded notions of rights and capabilities–proactive, independent, and goal oriented
(Meyer and Jepperson 2000; Hasse and Krucken 2013, Soysal 2012)
20. Expectations
• Selection on unobservables
• H1 Positive selection of international students by parental social background
• Bourdieusian understandings of IE as some form of capital generating investment that will
provide returns in future careers
• Selection on unobservables
• H2: Migration research suggests a selection bias among those who make the move
in terms of unobservables
• H3: Transnationalized higher education affects self-orientations and perceptions of
not only those who migrate for their education but also those who stay, so we
expect little to no selection
• Contemporary higher education places on standardized models of agentic individuality:
expanded notions of rights and capabilities–proactive, independent, and goal oriented
(Meyer and Jepperson 2000; Hasse and Krucken 2013, Soysal 2012)
21. Variables
• Socioeconomic background:
• Father’s occupation (e.g. a dummy combining professional, technical, and
high-level administration versus the rest)
• Education (whether the father is a university graduate)
• Unobserved: factor of agentic individual
• Questions asking students if someone who:
• “thinks up new ideas” (creative);
• “makes their own decisions” (independent minded),
• “looks for adventures and taking risks” (risk-taker),
• “values being successful” (achievement oriented)
• “not at all like s/he,” “somewhat like s/he,” “neither like s/he nor unlike s/he,” “somewhat like
s/he,” or “very much like s/he.”
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27. Discussion:
• Observable selection
• IE is a more democratic phenomenon than Bourdieusian and other elite-reproduction
theories suggest.
• Unobservable
• We considered four specific individual characteristics that are evenly
distributed among migrants and non-migrants from different origins
• being creative
• independent minded
• a risk-taker
• achievement oriented
28. Discussion: What does this mean for IE?
• Selection among educational migrants occurs due to observable
characteristics.
• Unobserved.
• Chinese university students are equally likely to see value in these individual
characteristics.
• They are also similar to students matriculated in British and German
universities who were natively born.
• Striking difference between Japanese home students and abroad: why?
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