Keywords
recruitment
periphery
policies
internationalization
How to Cite
Abstract
The paper investigates the approaches employed for attracting international full-degree students in three countries on the periphery of Europe/the European Economic Area: Norway, Poland and Portugal. These countries, considered semi-peripheral regarding international student recruitment, have shorter traditions for incoming mobility than countries that are major recruiters and which have been the focus of previous research on attracting international students. The paper analyses national policies and strategies, focusing on their emergence, rationales and instruments. The study is comparative, aiming to find commonalities and differences in the approaches of these countries further to the changing global environment in higher education. The major finding is that semi-peripheral countries appear to employ different strategies and resort to other comparative advantages than the largest student recruiters, exploiting political, cultural or geographical aspects rather than educational assets. The findings highlight the need for these countries to identify their distinctive attraction capacities and assets, as well as to be purposeful in choosing their target recruitment regions.
Funding
Wydanie tego tomu nie byłoby możliwe bez wsparcia otrzymanego w ramach projektu MNISW Dialog (0022/DLG/2019/10), za co redaktor wyraża podziękowanie.
Chcielibyśmy podziękować redakcji Higher Education Policy za możliwość publikacji polskojęzycznej wersji tego artykułu, a także Mari Elken za lekturę draftu tego dokumentu (w wersji anglojęzycznej) i za jej cenne krytyczne opinie, które pomogły nam poprawić tekst. Niniejszy dokument został opracowany przy wsparciu stypendium podoktoranckiego portugalskiej Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki i Technologii (FCT), SFRH/BPD/85724/2012 oraz przy wsparciu ze Narodowego Centrum Nauki (NCN), grant badawczy (UMO-2013/10/M/HS6/00561).
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