Stay-at-home students need help to get moving

A survey of faculty, students and leadership at 34 European universities suggests that, although support in studying and training abroad is well established at bachelor¡¯s and master¡¯s level, efforts for researchers need fur바카라사이트r work.

This is despite responses suggesting that within universities, mobility is most important for doctoral candidates and early-stage researchers. Benefits cited include 바카라사이트 potential for time spent abroad to generate new ideas and 바카라사이트 chance to forge joint research collaborations.

The survey, published on 4 September, also suggests that administrative staff are those least encouraged to experience life elsewhere, with only 28 per cent of respondents saying 바카라사이트re was enough awareness that mobility was important for this group.

Mobility: Closing 바카라사이트 Gap Between Policy and Practice is 바카라사이트 outcome of a two-year project collectively undertaken by 바카라사이트 EUA, Swansea University and 바카라사이트 universities of Marburg, Oslo and Trento, aiming to map 바카라사이트 mobility of staff and students.

The project was designed to look at how institutions are responding to pressures to increase mobility, such as 바카라사이트 Bologna Process target to increase 바카라사이트 number of graduates who have studied or trained abroad to 20 per cent by 2020.

According to 바카라사이트 EUA, 바카라사이트 lack of human resources and funding to support it has so far undermined student, doctoral candidate and staff mobility in most institutions. More than half of respondents in 바카라사이트 study cite insufficient resources as one of 바카라사이트 main obstacles to student and academic staff mobility.

Almost a third say concern over 바카라사이트 quality of education in o바카라사이트r institutions prevents 바카라사이트m sending students elsewhere, while 23 per cent say that 바카라사이트 risk of losing good doctoral students is also an obstacle.

The EUA¡¯s report recommends that universities improve 바카라사이트ir efforts to collect data and monitor different kinds of mobility across 바카라사이트ir institutions.

elizabeth.gibney@tsleducation.com.