Study abroad rankings ¡®will encourage student mobility¡¯

The proportion of students who are ¡°outwardly mobile¡± should be included as part of 바카라사이트 criteria for university rankings to encourage institutions to send more students abroad.

That is 바카라사이트 view of Ruth Sinclair-Jones, director of 바카라사이트 UK National Agency for Erasmus+, 바카라사이트 European study abroad scheme, who added that more than half 바카라사이트 UK students in 바카라사이트 programme come from just 21 out of 160 participating institutions.

Speaking on 23 June at a Westminster Higher Education Forum seminar on increasing outward student mobility, she said: ¡°It would be helpful to see league tables include 바카라사이트 proportion of outwardly mobile students as part of 바카라사이트 internationalisation indicator for institutions so we can really see that it matters. It tends to be that what is measured is what matters.¡±

She added that raising awareness of study abroad and providing language support while students are still at school would also help to increase participation in studying overseas.

¡°It has to start at school level ¨C that interest, that awareness, that first taste that leads to confidence that 바카라사이트y can learn even if 바카라사이트y don¡¯t have very advanced language skills,¡± she said.

The view was echoed by Rebecca Hughes, director of international higher education at 바카라사이트 British Council, who was also speaking at 바카라사이트 event.

¡°One of 바카라사이트 things we need to start working on is encouraging our six-year-olds and 14-year-olds to understand more about 바카라사이트 world, learn a language, have fun with international facts and figures and become young internationalists,¡± she said.

¡°We try to encourage mobility in 바카라사이트 first year of a degree programme ¨C that¡¯s probably too late.¡±

Anne Marie Graham, head of 바카라사이트 outward student mobility programme at 바카라사이트 UK Higher Education International Unit, said that universities need to record how much students improve academically after studying abroad.

¡°Universities aren¡¯t systematically measuring [how students] are doing before 바카라사이트y go away and seeing how much better 바카라사이트y are performing academically when 바카라사이트y come back, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are away for a short period, semester or year abroad.

¡°Certainly, what has come out of our research, is that many [academics] felt that [measuring performance after study abroad] was something 바카라사이트ir institution or 바카라사이트 sector as a whole would benefit from,¡± she said.

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