Internationalisation, Sustainability and the Contested Environmental Impacts of International Student Mobility

Autor/inn/en	McCollum, David; Nicholson, Hebe
Titel	Internationalisation, Sustainability and the Contested Environmental Impacts of International Student Mobility
Quelle	In: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 24 (2023) 7, S.1561-1575 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-6370
DOI	10.1108/IJSHE-09-2022-0299
Schlagwörter	International Education; Student Mobility; Foreign Students; Sustainability; Conservation (Environment); Student Attitudes; Decision Making; Study Abroad; Travel; Climate; Higher Education; Administrator Attitudes; College Administration; College Students; Student Costs; COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Nachhaltigkeit; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Klima; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Collegestudent; Studienkosten; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Purpose: This paper aims to stimulate the nascent research agenda on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing mushrooming of international student mobility (ISM). The higher education (HE) system in the UK and elsewhere is increasingly predicated upon the hosting of international students. Whilst this drive towards internationalisation undoubtably has multiple benefits, little attention thus far has been paid to its potentially very considerable environmental impact. The drive for internationalisation within HE thus potentially sits at odds with ambitions and strategies to promote sustainability within the sector and beyond. Design/methodology/approach: In-depth interviews with 21 students and representatives of 14 university international offices offer insights into how the environment features in the decisions that young people and HE institutions make with regards to partaking in and promoting education-related mobility. Findings: The results find that students take environmental considerations into account when undertaking education-related mobility, but these aspirations are often secondary to logistical issues concerning the financial cost and longer travel times associated with greener travel options. At the institutional scale, vociferously championed university sustainability agendas have yet to be reconciled with the financial imperative to recruit evermore international students. Originality/value: This paper identifies a thus far neglected contradiction within HE whereby the sustainability agenda that it so rightly espouses is potentially undermined by the drive towards internationalisation. The paper uses the anthropause concept to consider the future environmental sustainability of ISM. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01