M. Tech. Tourism and Hospitality Management / Educationally motivated mobility is one of the many reasons for human travel around the world. It is believed to be influenced by the push and pull factors that are bound in foreign students' countries, as well as receiving destinations. Developed countries like the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada have successfully utilised foreign students' mobility to reap financial benefits, as well as to create labour development opportunities. With twenty three public universities in South Africa, the number of foreign students here is perceived to represent only a very small part of the number of African students said to be studying outside of their own country. The aim of this study is to boost South African tourism, specifically tourism in the City of Tshwane, by increasing the number of foreign arrivals through increased foreign students, as well as attendant visit friends and relatives and youth travel. By means of a purposive sampling, this study examines the perceptions of 282 foreign students at the Tshwane University of Technology. The outcomes are encouraging, pointing to a bright future for tourism development by exploiting educational mobility. However, preconditions for this are the creation of the required infrastructure and the implementation of destination marketing.

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Student mobility and its relationship to academic success have been researched since World War II with varied findings (Goebel, 1978). Establishing the relationship between mobility and achievement is difficult due to the fact that mobility is related to many factors. Mobility has been found to be prevalent among students who traditionally demonstrate achievement gaps (specifically students of low-income status) (Long, 1992; Smith, Fien & Paine, 2008). Mobility’s relationship to achievement is complex. Led by a single definition of mobility, admittance to more than one school in the given district over the period of one academic year, this research study sought to determine the effect of mobility on academic achievement. Specifically, the research focused on mobility’s effect on students classified as low-income and the effect of school mobility level on academic achievement of its students. This study used a quantitative design; student records were obtained for mobility data, and criterion referenced test scores in mathematics and language arts were utilized to measure academic achievement. Findings revealed that mobile students performed below non-mobile students, low-income status affected mobile students negatively, and mobility level of the school attended had a negative effect on the academic achievement of its students.

With numerous local economies previously driven by manufacturing, Indiana was strongly affected by the economic downturn from 2007 until 2009. One suggestion to facilitate economic growth has been Richard Florida’s “creative class” theory, which asserts that talented and educated people choose to live in creative places. College graduates represent one part of Florida’s “creative class.” Current students at Ball State University were surveyed to understand the importance of place-related factors for where students wanted to live after they graduated. The survey responses indicated that students are most concerned with income potential, cost of living, and distance to family. Alumni residence data from Ball State and three other Indiana universities were also mapped and compared to county-level measures of income, housing, distance from home, and creativity index. This analysis supports the survey findings that economic factors and family connections are likely motivating factors in where graduates have chosen to live and stands in contrast to the overall logic of the creative place theory of development. / Department of Geography

Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuota studentų judumo politika Europos Sąjungoje, įvertintas akademinių mainų programų prieinamumas ir įgyvendinimas Lietuvos universitetuose, iškeltos pagrindinės problemos ir pateikti pasiūlymai, kaip šias problemas spręsti. Pirmoje dalyje nagrinėjamos ir lyginamos studijų judumo sampratos, išskiriami studentų mobilumo tipai ir apibrėžiama, kokiais kriterijais remiantis galima tirti studijų mobilumą. Antroje dalyje nagrinėjama aukštojo mokslo tarptautiškumo svarba Bolonijos proceso kontekste – analizuojami svarbiausi Bolonijos proceso dokumentai, lyginant jų nuostatas dėl studentų mobilumo. Taip pat analizuojami svarbiausi ES dokumentai, reglamentuojantys ir skatinantys studijų mobilumą. Aptariamos ES aukštojo mokslo mainų programos, tarp jų ir Erasmus akademinių mainų programa. Trečioje dalyje studijų mobilumas analizuojamas kaip Lietuvos Respublikos aukštojo mokslo švietimo politikos dalis: nagrinėjami Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo, Vyriausybės, Švietimo ir mokslo ministerijos teisės aktai ir kiti dokumentai, reglamentuojantys studentų judumą akademiniais tikslais bei aptariami ir lyginami Mykolo Romerio universiteto, Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universiteto ir Vilniaus universiteto strateginiai veiklos planai. Be to, vertinamas studijų mobilumo prieinamumas ir įgyvendinimas šiuose universitetuose, remiantis studentų ir ekspertų nuomonėmis, atliekant kiekybinį tyrimą – anketinę apklausą ir pusiau struktūruotą ekspertų interviu. / Master's thesis analyzes student mobility policy in the European Union, the availability of academic exchange programs and implementation in Lithuanian universities, bringing the key issues and suggestions on how to solve the main problems. The first part analyzes the concept of student mobility, distinguishes student mobility types and defines, what criteria should be used to investigate the student mobility. The second part deals with the importance of internationalization of higher education in the context of the Bologna process – the most important documents of the Bologna process are analyzed, comparing its provisions on student mobility. It also analyzes the most important EU documents regulating and promoting learning mobility. EU's higher education exchange programs are discussed, including Erasmus exchange programme. The third part analyzes student mobility as the part of the higher education policy of the Republic of Lithuania: it covers the Lithuanian Parliament’s, the Government’s, the Ministry’s of Education regulations and other documents regulating the mobility of students, later discussing and comparing three biggest Lithuanian universities on this matter: Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Vilnius University. In addition, the study evaluates the accessibility and implementation of student mobility programs in these universities through student and expert opinions, after fulfilling the quantitative survey – students’... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Ed.) -- University of Alberta, 2010. / "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education, Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta. Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on May 19, 2010) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002. / Title from title page screen, viewed January 3, 2006. Dissertation Committee: James C. Palmer (chair), Carolyn Bartlett, Edward R. Hines, George Padavil, William Tolone, David Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-170) and abstract. Also available in print.

Orientador: Débora Mazza / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T05:52:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Anastacio_ThaisPinheiroZarattini_M.pdf: 1994379 bytes, checksum: 52fd609ba3d17b823b1f05144ebb6f67 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A pesquisa reflete sobre a circulação internacional de estudantes do Ensino Superior e as políticas de Educação que têm estimulado, de modo crescente, essa modalidade de mobilidade e de formação. Autores apontam que a globalização do capital, da produção, da circulação e do consumo de bens materiais e imateriais, bem como as inovaçõs nas tecnologias da informática, da comunicação e dos transportes têm incrementado a circulação de pessoas, impulsionada por motivos variados, incluindo os de formação. Knight e De Wit (1997) e Miura (2006) sugerem que a internacionalização do Ensino Superior participa do amplo processo de globalização que induz o fluxo de pessoas para além das fronteiras nacionais. Stallivieri (2004) indica que a internacionalização nao é uma opção, mas uma questão de sobrevivência para as Universidades que se veem associadas à globalização que acomete as muitas esferas da vida social. A pesquisa objetiva fazer um levantamento de autores que auxiliem no entendimento dos fluxos migratórios contemporâneos e dar visibilidade à mobilidade dos estudantes do Ensino Superior e às políticas de Educação que estimulam esse tipo de formação, considerando que a maioria dos estudantes move-se financiada por acordos diplomáticos, pelas políticas multilaterais e por organismos públicos e privados de financiamento à Educação e à pesquisa. Ancorada na abordagem qualitativa, a pesquisa adotou a Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) que, entre suas políticas e ações, destaca-se com programas de cooperação acadêmica visando à internacionalização e os fluxos de estudantes. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que a circulação internacional de estudantes é causada pela lógica do mercado, por políticas nacionais e internacionais, estimuladas pelos Estados e pelas Universidades. Compreende-se, então, que, na sociedade contemporânea, a internacionalização do Ensino Superior tem fomentado novas narrativas, programas e práticas, conferido credenciais distintivas a sujeitos, a grupos, a classes e a instituições / Abstract: This study is a reflection on the international movement of Higher Education students and on the Education policies which have increasily stimulated this modalidality of mobility and formation. Some authors point out that the movement of people has been increased by globalization of capital, production,circulation and consumption of material and imaterial goods as well by the technological innovations in computing, communication and transport. This movement is driven by some different reasons, including those of professional formation. Knight and De Wit (1997) and Miura (2006) suggest that the Higher Education internacionalization is a part of a broader process of globalization which induces people flow across national borders. Stallivieri (2004) points out that the internationalization is not an option but a matter of survival to the universities which see themselves associated to globalization that affects many spheres of social life. Then, this search aims to study some authors who can help in uderstanding the current migratory flows and give visibility to mobility Higher Education students and to the policies that stimulate this kind of formation, considering that most of the students travel funded by diplomatic agreements, and multilateral policies of public and private funding bodies to Education and Research. In a qualitative approach, the research adopted the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) which, among its policies and actions, have academic cooperation programs aiming at internationalization and student flows. The results show that the international movement of students is caused by the market logic, by national and international policies, stimulated by the States and the universities. We understand that in current society, Higher Education internationalization has fostered new narratives, programs and practices as well it has conferred distinctive credentials to individuals, groups, classes and institutions / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Mestra em Educação

The number of international students studying abroad has doubled since the year 2000 and there are nearly five million students that are enrolled outside their country of origin. Over the past ten years new insights and approaches to the internationalisation of higher education have arisen which has influenced global research and education. Student mobility data is a component of internationalisation data. internationally mobile students are defined as students who have crossed international borders from their countries with the objective to study. Currently, there are several international organisations and projects that manage student mobility data from various Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe and report on this data. Two of these organisations are the Open Doors Report and Project Atlas. The organisations collect Data for Africa, although it is not as detailed and useful as the data provided about other countries. Since the number of students studying abroad has doubled since the year 2000, the amount of student mobility data kept by data collection agencies and HEIs has also increased. The data collected is not always accurate and this poses a data management problem. This study conducted a survey sent to international offices at various HEIs in South Africa and Africa. The survey investigates the current state of student mobility data management in HEIs. The survey results revealed that the international offices are currently dissatisfied with student mobility data management and will be willing to provide international student data to an African data repository. This study proposes the design and development of a web-based student mobility data repository, known as the African International Portal (AIP). The study identified design guidelines and requirements for a web-based data repository. The requirements, design and design guidelines were used to guide the development of the prototype. Heuristic evaluations were conducted on the prototype in order to identify any major usability problems. Findings revealed that the overall perceptions of the prototype were positive and can be attributed to the design considerations and guidelines used during the development phase. The prototype was evaluated using a full usability evaluation that determined the usefulness, effectiveness and efficiency of the prototype when users are in the process of managing student mobility data. The results indicate that the participants found the AIP to be an effective, efficient and a satisfactory means of managing student mobility data.