What is the profile of internationally mobile students?

Many factors at the individual, institutional, national and global levels drive patterns of international student mobility. These include personal ambitions aspirations for better employment prospects, a lack high-quality higher educational institutions home, capacity education abroad to attract talent, government policies encourage cross-border mobility (Bhandari, Robles Farrugia, 2020[2]). The needs increasingly knowledge-based innovation-driven economies have spurred demand tertiary worldwide, while rising wealth in emerging has prompted children growing middle classes seek opportunities abroad. At same time, economic (e.g. costs flights), technological spread Internet social media enabling contacts be maintained across borders) cultural use English as common working teaching language) contributed making study substantially more affordable easier access than past.