Synopses & Reviews
Despite the increasing global popularity of international study, little research has been done on the lives of students who undertake it. Based on detailed case studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, this volume explores how governments influence the welfare of newly arrived students and how students shape their own experiences with the help of family, friends, and peer networks. With implications for international study in countries around the world,and#160;Regulating International Studentsandrsquo; Wellbeingand#160;makes a significant contribution to our understanding of a little-understood global population.and#160;
Review
andldquo;Universities and governments want to attract international students but rarely consider student wellbeing. This bookandrsquo;s account of critical issues, with two national good-practice case studies, is essential reading for international education policymakers.andrdquo;and#160;
Synopsis
Cross-border education is a fast growing and diverse global market, but little is known about how international students actually live. Using international and cross-country comparative analysis, this book explores how governments influence international student welfare, and how students shape their own opportunities. As well as formal regulation by government, 'informal regulation' through students' family, friendship and co-student networks proves vital to the overseas experience. Two case study countries - Australia and New Zealand - are presented and compared in detail. These are placed in the global regulatory and market contexts, with lessons for similar exporter countries drawn. Regulating international students' wellbeing will be of interest to international students, student representative bodies, education policy makers and administrators, as well as civil servants and policy makers in international organisations. Students and researchers of international and comparative social policy will be drawn into its focus on a little understood but vulnerable global population.
Synopsis
Using international and cross-country comparative analysis, this book explores how governments influence international student welfare, and how students shape their own opportunities.
Synopsis
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication from the UK Social Policy Association. Since its inception, Social Policy Review has been devoted to up-to-date and diverse coverage of the best social policy scholarship. Including a special anniversary preface, this three-part volume offers an analysis of current developments under the UK’s coalition government, an examination of the social policy of developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, and an investigation of the fate of social welfare countries worst-hit by the economic crisis.
About the Author
Gaby Ramiaand#160;is associate professor in the graduate school of government at the University of Sydney and coauthor ofand#160;From Rights to Management.and#160;Simon Marginson is professor of higher education at the University of Melbourne and joint editor-in-chief of the journal Higher Education.and#160;Erlenawati Sawir is a research fellow at the International Education Research Centre at Central Queensland University.and#160;and#160;
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures
Notes on contributors
40th anniversary preface
Introduction
Part One: Current developments
1. Universal credit: overview and gender implications
Fran Bennett
2. Family support and the Coalition: retrenchment, refocusing and restructuring
Harriet Churchill
3. Housing, the welfare state and the Coalition government
Alan Murie
4. The 2012/13 reforms of higher education in England: changing student finances and funding
Claire Callender
5. Division and opposition: the Health and Social Care Bill 2011
Sally Ruane
Part Two: Social policy in the developed and developing worlds
6. Immigrant-targeted activation policies: a comparison of the approaches in the Scandinavian welfare states
Karen Nielsen Breidahl
7. Welfare retrenchment under Left and Right government leadership: towards a consolidated framework of analysis?
Stefan Kühner
8. From black hole to spring: the coming age of social policy in the Arab countries?
Rana Jawad
9. China's developmental model in Africa: a new era for global social policy?
Marian Urbina Ferretjans and Rebecca Surender
Part Three: Severe crisis: social policy in most challenging circumstances
10. The Greek welfare state in the age of austerity: anti-social policy and the politico-economic crisis
Theodoros Papadopoulos and Antonios Roumpakis
11. From opportunity to austerity: crisis and social policy in Spain
Javier Ramos-Díaz and Albert Varela
12. From financial crisis to welfare retrenchment: assessing the challenges to the Irish welfare state
Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow
13. The Great Recession and US social policy: from expansion to austerity
Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan
14. Seeking refuge in the Nordic model: social policy in Iceland after 2008
Zoë Irving
Index