The International Education Strategy and a social ecological approach to resilience and inequalities among international students

国际学生为英国及其大学带来了大量的社会经济、文化和智力方面的好处。学生获得的知识、技能和网络使他们自己、家乡社区受益，并促进全球合作。认识到国际教育在应对人口结构和英国退欧等变化方面的作用，英国政府的国际教育战略追求增加国际学生数量，扩大毕业生留下来和工作的权利。国际学生应对他们的福祉、文化适应、教育和就业成果方面的挑战，以及所支持的有效的知识转移和国际化。这场大流行放大了家庭分离、痛苦、支持障碍、排斥和仇外心理。那些持学生签证的人不能进入英国的社会保障计划，就业权利有限。他们依赖家庭资源、私人融资和有限的奖学金，阻碍了那些来自边缘和弱势背景的人的机会。这项跨学科的社会政策研究探索了国际学生在整个学习过程中面临的挑战和不平等，以及支持弹性适应的个人、心理社会、社会经济和社会政策因素。它使用了混合的方法，包括对社会政策的快速审查，创造性的视觉方法，以及纵向调查。通过政策简报、期刊、会议和研究网络分享的研究结果将为在大学、国家和国际层面与学生共同制定社会政策提供信息。在全国范围内，这可以扩大接受高等教育的机会，减少不平等，促进包容性，促进融合，并支持国际毕业生留下来工作。在全球范围内，这可以帮助外向型的全球英国发挥积极影响，促进横向的全球智力交流和公平的伙伴关系，以实现可持续发展目标，减少全球贫困和不平等。

International students yield substantive socioeconomic, cultural, and intellectual benefits for the UK andits universities. The knowledge, skills, and networks students gain benefit themselves, homecommunities, and foster global cooperation. Recognising their role in tackling changes like demographicaging and Brexit, the government's International Education Strategy pursues increased internationalstudent numbers and expanded rights for graduates to remain and work. International studentsencounter challenges to their wellbeing, acculturation, educational and employment outcomes, and tosustained, effective knowledge transfer and internationalisation. The pandemic amplified familyseparation, distress, barriers to support, exclusion, and xenophobia. Those on student visas cannotaccess British social protection schemes and have limited employment rights. They depend on familialresources, private financing, and limited scholarships, hampering access for those from marginalised anddisadvantaged backgrounds. This interdisciplinary social policy research explores the challenges andinequalities international students face throughout their studies, and individual, psychosocial,socioeconomic, and social policy factors supporting resilient adaption. It uses mixed methods, including arapid review of social policy, creative visual methods, and a longitudinal survey. Shared through policybriefings, journals, conferences, and research networks, findings will inform the co-development of socialpolicy with students at university, national, and international levels. Nationally, this can widen access tohigher education, reduce inequalities, foster inclusion, improve integration, and support internationalgraduates to remain and work. Globally, this can help an outwards-looking Global Britain exercisepositive influence, facilitating horizontal global intellectual exchanges and equitable partnerships for theachievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, reducing global poverty and inequalities.