Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
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全球知识经济中的高等教育和国际学生流动
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2008
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K. Gürüz
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© 2009 Palgrave Macmillan 1744–6503 International Journal of Educational Advancement Vol. 9, 1, 60–62 Every college campus in America has a number of international students, faculty and researchers. Whether it is the basketball player recruited from Russia or the stellar mathematician from China, the international student is always a visible sight on campus. What Dr Guruz attempted to study in his book is the historical basis of globalization, and how it affected enrollment trends of international students. The beginnings of this history were in the industrial revolution in Europe and America, when mass production and the scientifi c method became the means of rapidly developing the economy. Specifi cally, it was the creation of the public trust in universities in the West as centers for the production of knowledge and technology that helped to fuel the creation of the global community. Rich foreigners would travel the world to obtain the best education, and generally this meant attending an American university. The goal of the research, most of which came from data drawn from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, was to show university administrators that international student mobility continues to increase each year, specifi cally from China and India. The main destination for these students continues to be American colleges, as the American government subsidizes education and research so much that these institutions continue to vastly outpace those in the rest of the world. Dr Guruz ’ s research shows that if another country, aside from the United States, desires to have one of the top universities in the world, then the government needs to heavily invest in higher education. Dr Guruz ’ s research is not a storybook; there are few elaborate Book Review