Educational Equality and International Students Justice Across Borde
In an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders. Exploring the tension between the theory of educational equality and the reality that m
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EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS JUSTICE ACROSS BORDERS?
Educational Equality and International Students
“This book makes a major contribution to research by raising new and profoundly challenging questions about the conceptualisation of equality in education arising from the internationalisation of higher education in market terms. Written with exemplary clarity and precision, the book highlights the limitations of framing both theoretical and empirical research about equality and social justice within the boundaries of the nation state. It demonstrates how the nation-state-based narrative has left international students outside the equality radar of both policymakers and university management within the UK in particular. The author examines the contradictions between the rhetoric of universities and their practices whereby they proclaim universalistic values of human rights to education, while simultaneously regarding international students as ‘cash cows’, a simple market commodity. He provides compelling evidence that British universities ‘are now deciding to recruit and not recruit, and admit and not admit international students not just on the basis of their academic merit, but on their nationality, immigration history, and financial well-being and security.’ This book should be read by all of those researching or teaching about equality in education. It extends the parameters of our intellectual horizons beyond the boundaries of the nation state and opens up new questions and frameworks for analysing inequality in education in a globalised world.” —Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland “It is incredibly timely for this book to come out in our 50th anniversary year, as it is a fascinating exploration of some really fundamental principles and concepts surrounding international students, how they are treated and how they are seen. Not everyone will agree with every aspect, but the book asks some really powerful questions – many of which we will need to re-visit at the very least in the context of Brexit – and many of which are in practice, for good reasons or bad, often overlooked or ignored.” —Dominic Scott, Chief Executive, UK Council for International Student Affairs
“This is an incisive and original contribution to the literature on international students, pointing up the neglected topic of which kinds of inequalities they experience and how, given this, we should think of educational equalities. The analysis richly advances our understanding of educational equalities across nations, institutions, and communities of practice. The book combines a very clear discussion of theory with richly documented accounts of experience in the UK. All discussions of higher education as a public good need to engage with some of the complexities this study raises.” —Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development, UCL Institute of Education, UK
Stuart Tannock
Educational Equality and International Students Justice Across Borders?
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