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Wang, Carol Chunfeng; Whitehead, Lisa; Bayes, Sara – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
Australia attracts international nursing students from China to maintain its economic advantage and to alleviate the projected nursing shortage; conversely, China needs its best and brightest citizens who have trained abroad in nursing to return to cope with current challenges within its healthcare system and nursing education. This paper explores…
Descriptors: Costs, Nursing Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Shen, Wenqin; Wang, Chuanyi; Jin, Wei – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Of all the levels of education, doctoral education is the most internationalised. By selecting one key indicator (the proportion of international students among a country's doctorate recipients), the article presents an analysis of PhD students' international mobility. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Mobility
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Bista, Krishna, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Today, millions of students cross geographic, cultural, and educational borders for their higher education. Trends of international student mobility are significant to universities, educators, business leaders, and governments to increase revenue and campus diversity in the global marketplace. As such, it is vital to examine recent trends in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis
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Fahey, Johannah; Kenway, Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
This paper draws from the ARC Discovery project called "Moving Ideas: Mobile Policies, Researchers and Connections in the Social Sciences and Humanities--Australia in the Global Context" (2006-2009). This project explored the ways that ideas travel and how knowledge transforms through travel. One aspect of the study was the critical…
Descriptors: Travel, Social Science Research, Occupational Mobility, Social Sciences
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Welch, Anthony R.; Zhen, Zhang – Higher Education Policy, 2008
In the global era, transnational flows of highly skilled individuals are increasing. In the much-touted global knowledge economy, the contribution of such diasporic individuals and the knowledge networks that they sustain are recognized as being of increasing importance. Brain circulation is of critical importance to the "giant…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Talent, Brain Drain
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Yang, Rui; Welch, Anthony R. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2010
The master discourses of economic globalisation and the knowledge economy each cite knowledge diasporas as vital "trans-national human capital". Based on a case study of a major Australian university, this article examines the potential to deploy China's large and highly-skilled diaspora in the service of Chinese and Australian…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Yang, Rui; Qiu, Fang-fang – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
In a context of intensified globalisation, knowledge diaspora as "trans-national human capital" have become increasingly valuable to society. With an awareness of a need for more empirical studies especially in Australia, this article concentrates on a group of academics who were working at a major university in Australia and came…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Brain Drain, Human Capital
Morgan, W. John, Ed.; Wu, Bin, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade--China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Gribble, Cate – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
A consequence of the dramatic rise in international student mobility is the trend for international students to remain in the country in which they study after graduation. Countries such as Australia, the UK and Canada stand to benefit from international student migration, as they are able to fill skill shortages with locally trained foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility
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Inkson, Kerr; Carr, Stuart C. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
The phenomenon of migration makes many careers international, and globalisation has accelerated the process. This paper reports on a program of studies, now labelled "talent flow," conducted in New Zealand with a view to increasing understanding of migration and its relationship to careers. Initial studies considered the phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Careers, Career Choice, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Ziguras, Christopher; Law, Siew-Fang – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
The recruitment of international students as skilled migrants is increasing in many countries, and most notably in Australia, where the Commonwealth government's immigration and international education policies are now closely aligned. There are three factors that make international students attractive migrants. First, they increase the recruiting…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Economic Development, International Education, College Graduates
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McNamara, Olwen; Lewis, Sarah; Howson, John – Perspectives in Education, 2007
A common strategy employed by wealthy industrial nations for dealing with short-term skill deficits is to recruit internationally; such was the case, around the millennium, when a teacher supply crisis occurred in the United Kingdom (UK). That immediate crisis is now over; yet irrespective of peaks and troughs, international teacher migration is…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Migration, Teacher Recruitment
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Gabriel, M. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2002
Examines media coverage of youth outmigration from Tasmania in the context of Australia's regional crisis. Focuses on how young people are constructed by others and positioned in others' visions of their rural home towns. Discusses two recurring narratives: strategies to keep youth at home, and preoccupation with the "best and brightest"…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, College Graduates, Cultural Images, Foreign Countries
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Rizvi, Fazal – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
This paper discusses a range of issues concerning the idea of "brain drain" within the context of recent thinking on transnational mobility. It argues that the traditional analyses of brain drain are not sufficient, and that we can usefully approach the topic from a postcolonial perspective concerned with issues of identity, national…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Interviews
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Eversole, Robyn – Education in Rural Australia, 2002
A study examining university service delivery in isolated rural southwestern Australia interviewed 25 active and inactive distance students. Issues identified include isolation, lack of peer interaction/support, limited access to academic resources, and the need for motivation. Respondents indicated that methodology, face to face contact, and an…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Brain Drain, Case Studies
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