Inventory of programs aimed at attracting international students and academics to the EU - Kabbanji, Lama; Jolivet-Guetta, Melanie; Consterdine, Erica; González-Ferrer, Amparo (EU, 2016)
This report aims at examining main political debates and legislations targeting foreign students and academics in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom since 2000. Several changes in migration policies have occurred these recent years in the UK, France and Spain that affected the conditions of entry and stay of foreign students and academics coming to these countries. While in the UK migration policies became more restrictive since 2010, France adopted a more selective approach with the aim to diversify the geographical origin of students and academics and select more thoroughly those who are allowed to stay in France after the completion of their post-graduates studies. Spain is trying to promote the internationalisation of its higher education and research system with the adoption in 2008 of the “Estrategia Universidad 2015” - which includes measures to attract more foreign students and academics – while coping with the limited resources due to the effects of the economic crisis. These legal reforms and policy efforts to affect the internationalization level of the university system at its lower and higher ranks, from undergrad students to researchers and academic positions, are hard to evaluate in the short term, as it will be shown in Working Paper 3.
Keywords: report; technical report; Temper Working Paper Series