Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy: Revised and Updated Second Edition

Second, updated edition of a landmark study of how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education have evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in todays global knowledge economy.

Students and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon. An indispensable resource for understanding the international mobility of students, this book reveals how the global mobility of such students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education have evolved over time. Kemal Grz explores the contributions that the international mobility of students has made to scientific and technological progress, and the ways in which it is occurring in todays global economy.

The second edition of this widely praised study is completely revised and updated, tracing international mobility in higher education through the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Praise for the First Edition:

Higher education has exploded globally, and Grzs excellent, timely study is as useful a guidebook as one will find to this new (even revolutionary) world. CHOICE

Grzs book is a powerful and remarkably comprehensive work dealing with a wide array of interconnected topics and complex data relating to globalization and international student mobility [it] is a wonderful read on many levels and clearly represents decades of careful data analysis and synthesis. International Review of Education