Academic attractiveness of countries. A possible benchmark strategy applied to the Netherlands.

Autor/in	Kolster, Renze
Titel	Academic attractiveness of countries. A possible benchmark strategy applied to the Netherlands.
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 4 (2014) 2, S. 118-134Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235; 2156-8243
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2013.879835
Schlagwörter	Mobilität; Niederlande; Student; Studium; Wissenschaftler; Ausland; Lehre; Auslandsbeziehungen; Lehre; Auslandsbeziehungen; Mobilität; Studium; Akademischer Austausch; Student; Wissenschaftler; Ausland; Niederlande
Abstract	The number of international students and the number of countries hosting these students are growing. The level of internationalization has also become an indication of the prestige of higher education institutions. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important for countries - an indeed the European higher education area as a whole - to be academically attractive to international students. To measure the attractiveness, this paper argues that in addition to looking at countries' characteristics (i.e. factual data), subjective data (i.e. perceptions of international students) should also be considered. Hence, proposed is an explorative benchmark model based on a mixed method approach and consisting of factual and perceptual data as an initial attempt to measure the academic attractiveness countries. Outcomes provide insights into the strengths and weakness as benchmarked against other countries and can result in possible implications for policy. Because of data limitations, the model was solely applied to the Netherlands. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2015/1