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International student mobility and environmental sustainability. Working through the tensions

22 Jun 2022

However, as of yet, surprisingly little is known about the following components of ISM: - The travel and other carbon emitting behaviours of students and their environmental consequences - How students make decisions regarding education related travel and the extent to which environmental considerations influence these choices - The strategies of HEIs with regards to ISM and the extent to which th. [...] Beech (2018) took this further by focusing on the impact of the change in visa laws in the UK in 2012 (which removed the two-year work visa for international graduates on completion of their studies in the UK) on the types of students and degree courses. [...] There is modest but growing literature on the impact due to the recent nature of these developments, with UK only officially exiting the EU on the 1st January 2021 and the restrictions associated with the pandemic still ongoing in some countries, although these have lifted within the UK at the time of writing (April 2022). [...] ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION The literature has connected the rise in ISM to the rise in the internationalisation of HE in general (Findlay et al., 2017). [...] We then organised data according to the percentage of international students present, with the university with the highest percentage of international students at the top of the list descending to the lowest percentage at the bottom.
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