Fees, flows and imaginaries : exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility
Abstract
Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international student mobility? This paper addresses this question by analysing cross-border student mobility in the UK. The paper identifies four principles that one might expect to drive the destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling in English universities. Following a statistical analysis of student destination choices, it is argued that cross-border moves from Scotland to England are stimulated by some of the same global forces as international student mobility (such as a desire to accumulate cultural capital), but in terms of destination choice the imaginaries held by Scottish students of ‘good’ places to study in England to accumulate cultural capital are constructed differently from the imaginaries of international students.
Citation
Findlay , A , Packwood , H , McCollum , D , Evans , G F & Tindal , S 2018 , ' Fees, flows and imaginaries : exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility ' , Globalisation, Societies and Education , vol. 16 , no. 2 , pp. 162-175 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1412822
Publication
Globalisation, Societies and Education
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1476-7724Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1412822
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This research was undertaken within a wider research programme financed by ESRC grant ES/G027153/1.Collections
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