Higher Education Admissions and Student Mobility: The ADMIT Research Project

The ADMIT research project was funded by the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission between November 1998 and October 2000. The research, which was concerned with student mobility and higher education admissions, involved five European Union (EU) countries – France, Germany, Greece, Sweden and the United Kingdom (see ADMIT, 2001). The underlying assumption of the research was that student mobility and accompanying academic recognition are necessary prerequisites for an open and dynamic European educational area that will aid European integration and labour market mobility. However, for students to be mobile they have to have access to higher education and the financial resources to enable them to study abroad. Hence, the overall aim of this research project was to explore the relationship between higher education admissions and student mobility within the EU. The overarching objective of the project was to shed light on higher education admissions policies and practices at national and university levels and to relate these to student mobility. The specific objectives of the research were as follows.