While scholars are increasingly interested in migrants in the Global North educating their children in their homelands, ethnographic studies of how ideas about being educated are shaped, and young peo

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities – Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK (2015) · doi

  Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education.

  Keywords: higher education whilst changing landscape produced burgeoning literature internationalisation transnational student mobility past years still
• Studies in Internationalization (2001) · doi

  Research-based literature on new phenomena is scarce, so is the literature on the relatively new, but strongly growing, trend in internationalization, which concerns the provision of education across borders: A trend that sometimes has been identified as “moving education, not learners,” Two studies have recently been published that reveal a lot of information on this so far quite-unexplored, but much discussed, issue.

  Keywords: literature trend education based phenomena scarce relatively strongly growing internationalization concerns provision across borders sometimes
• Negotiating the ‘Ghanaian’ way of schooling: transnational mobility and the educational strategies of British-Ghanaian families (2019) · doi

  While scholars are increasingly interested in migrants in the Global North educating their children in their homelands, ethnographic studies of how ideas about being educated are shaped, and young people’s accounts of these transnational educational practices, remain under-researched.

  Keywords: scholars increasingly interested migrants global north educating children homelands ethnographic ideas educated shaped young people
• International Education or Colonial Tourism? Measuring Tools and Standards for Evaluating International Education (2022) · doi

  The author shows how indicators can be extended to improve education abroad programs assessment on dimensions of professionalism and appropriate impact on developing countries under international law and also points to some of the many niches or gaps in education abroad that remain to be filled.

  Keywords: education abroad author shows indicators extended improve programs assessment dimensions professionalism appropriate impact developing countries