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Student Mobility in the EU
Student Mobility in the EU

Author(s): Judit Szarka
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Miskolci Egyetem
Keywords: student mobility; educational policy; European Union

Summary/Abstract: Changes in all fields of the society and also in the labour market mean that students have to acquire new skills to be successful in coping with challenges in today’s multicultural environment. Mobility during the course of studies could be the most effective tool to acquire these competencies. This paper intends to examine student mobility, by creating a synthesis of statistical and qualitative analysis. In the first section the various types of mobility are discussed, along with the respective students flows and their explanations. In the part exploring the organised student mobility also the development and the main objectives of the Socrates programme are reviewed. Succeeding this, the major obstacles to student mobility are enumerated along with the relevant solutions. In the final section, the paper shortly analyses the student flows in the Catholic University of Leuven, and gives a description of various practices there, which help foreign students to adapt themselves faster to the new environment.

  • Issue Year: II/2003
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-138
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English