Growing flows of knowledge, people and financing cross national borders and feed both worldwide collaboration and competition. These effects of globalisation increasingly impact higher education. How then might the future higher education scene look at the global level? What are the challenges...

This book brings together up-to-date statistics, case studies and policy reports on the major trends and developments in cross-border post-secondary education in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. Topics covered include policy initiatives to promote cross-border post-secondary...

Between 2000 and 2011, the number of international students has more than doubled. Today, almost 4.5 million tertiary students are enrolled outside their country of citizenship. The largest numbers of international students are from China, India and Korea. Asian students account for 53% of all...

This dataset contains the number of people who physically crossed an international border between two countries and are studying in a given education programme in the reference period of the data collection, by sex.

This indicator shows the number of international tertiary students enrolled as a proportion of the total tertiary students enrolled in the destination (host) country. International students are those who received their prior education in another country and are not residents of their current...