Research Catalog

Title

European and national policies for academic mobility : linking rhetoric, practice and mobility trends / Irina Ferencz, Bernd Wächter (eds.).

Publication

Bonn : Lemmens, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Ferencz, Irina
• Wächter, Bernd

Description

240 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The promotion of international student and staff mobility has over the past decades become a major policy objective of the European Union. Large-scale mobility programs, such as ERASMUS, have been created, and ambitious mobility targets (20% of all students) have been set at the European level, to ensure that more and more European students become internationally mobile. Have these European efforts been mirrored by similar attempts at the national level? Are national policies and strategies in line with the European mobility ambitions, and if so, on which issues and to what extent? More generally, is there cross-country convergence in the mobility policies, priorities and instruments of individual European countries? These are some of the questions the present study explores. It was produced by the Academic Cooperation Association in cooperation with NUFFIC and DAAD, and with financial support from the European Commission. The study finds that very few European countries have a fully-fledged mobility policy in place. Most European countries have a rather piecemeal mobility approach. The book explores similarities and differences between national approaches with regard to type of mobility, quantitative mobility targets, priority regions/countries, and policy making actors, amongst others. Next to a Europe-wide overview, the study contains in-depth explorations of eight European countries (Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom (England)). [Publisher, ed].

Series Statement

ACA papers on international cooperation in education

Uniform Title

ACA papers on international cooperation in education

Alternative Title

Linking rhetoric, practice and mobility trends

Subject

• Student mobility > Europe
• College teacher mobility > Europe
• Educational exchanges > Europe
• Students, Transfer of > Europe
• University cooperation > European Union countries
• Education, Higher > Europe > International cooperation
• Higher education and state > Europe

Note

• Research report.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9783868560053 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 798210651
• SCSB-11266293

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Harvard Library