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Making the Most of Overseas Students
Author(s) -
Fenwick Keith
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1987.tb01771.x
Subject(s) - institution , action (physics) , higher education , international education , political science , study abroad , sociology , pedagogy , public relations , law , physics , quantum mechanics
The educational case for overseas students has been put back on the agenda by present financial difficulties of higher education. Alternative and sometimes conflicting rhetorics of ‘interntationalism’ and ‘Third World modemisation’ now have to be re‐examined. The general case for overseas students stemming from liberal education principle can be supplemented by specification of a range of benefits they may bring. One condition of realising these benefits is systematic thinking and positive action in the institution; another, even more fundamental, is the integration of overseas student provision into an international education policy, and of that policy in the overall policy of the institution .