Robertson County wants to accelerate economic development and create high-wage jobs but preserve rural culture and agricultural landscapes.

To expand the skilled workforce, countries need to attract skilled migrants. One way of doing this is by attracting and retaining international students. Empirical evidence suggests that concerns about brain drain—that is, the emigration of highly qualified workers—are overblown and that...

Student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017. It is clearly popular with an increase in student uptake from 3.2 to 272.5 thousands from 1987 to 2014. Recent studies show that studying abroad provides benefits like...

Advisors provide the nuts and bolts of studying abroad, and a diverse student panel shares their experiences studying abroad.

This research examines the perceptions of host country nationals regarding the purpose and impact on their community of the presence of international students who live in and study the host culture. Understanding the host perspective is supported by a post structural paradigm in which culture is...

My research question seeks to find out what strategies study abroad consortia administrators have employed in order to remain viable entities and to continue to serve their members as expectations evolve. Using personal interviews and questionnaires addressed to consortia administrators and...

It is well documented that students with favourable socio-economic and educational characteristics more often take advantage of international mobility opportunities. We explore whether the effect of ISM on professional success depends on selection into ISM (educational achievements, family...

This study examines factors predicting participation in study abroad programs using a bivariate probit selection model where the probabilities of attending university and studying abroad are jointly estimated. Given that unobserved variables influencing these two sequential events are likely to...

This paper investigates the impact of the Science without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) (CSF) programme on participants' post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship. The programme was launched in 2011 to increase students' human capital and interest in science and...

On the basis of theories of cultural reproduction and rational choice, we examine whether access to study-abroad opportunities is socially selective and whether this pattern changed during educational expansion. We test our hypotheses for Germany by combining student survey data and...