The Politics of the Great Brain Race: Public Policy and International Student Recruitment in Australia, Canada, England and the USA

Autor/inn/en	Sá, Creso M.; Sabzalieva, Emma
Titel	The Politics of the Great Brain Race: Public Policy and International Student Recruitment in Australia, Canada, England and the USA
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 75 (2018) 2, S.231-253 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-017-0133-1
Schlagwörter	Public Policy; Student Recruitment; Foreign Students; Talent; Competition; Longitudinal Studies; Comparative Analysis; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; International Education; School Holding Power; Higher Education; Enrollment Trends; Trend Analysis; College Students; Foreign Countries; Australia; Canada; United States; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Ordnung; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Wettkampf; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politics of education; Internationale Erziehung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Trendanalyse; Collegestudent; Ausland; Australien; Kanada; USA
Abstract	As the number of globally mobile students has expanded, governments are assumed to be consistently and intentionally competing for talent, in what has been called a "great brain race". While the notion of competition has become dominant, there is little evidence on long-term policy dynamics in this field, not only across jurisdictions but also over time. We seek to address this gap in this paper through a longitudinal analysis of the politics and public policies impacting international students in four major recruiting countries--Australia, Canada, England and the USA. Through this comparative analysis of the period 2000 to 2016, we demonstrate that international student numbers across the jurisdictions have grown steadily but that this appears to be decoupled from political and policy changes. We also discuss how "internationalization" initiatives provide an insufficient policy umbrella for policy action on the recruitment and retention of international students. Public policy impacting international students spans multiple government agencies or ministries, encompassing different policy fields. This requires greater policy coordination, which remains elusive for the most part. (As Provided).
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