Student Mobility within the European Union (1994-1996)
Type of project/activity:
statistical survey and comparative analysis
Objectives:
The objectives were to establish a systematic statistical corpus on student
mobility within the European Union and as exhaustive as possible a statistical
analysis of the different types of student mobility within the EU.
Background:
The mobility of students plays a key role in developing the European dimension
in higher education. In the early 1990s European integration gave rise to
increased mobility among students supported by EU funded programmes: ERASMUS,
LINGUA, COMETT and also TEMPUS directed towards higher education institutions
in the Central and Eastern European countries. At the quantitative level there
was a lack of information on the different types and quantities of student
mobility. Hence a comparative statistical study.
Partners:
The project was undertaken by the EIESP in collaboration with the Comité
de Liaison des Conférences des Recteurs and a team of national consultants
from all the Member States.
Main activities:
Firstly in 1994-95 data were collected from the then 12 Member States and
in 1996 the study was extended to include the three new countries (Austria,
Finland and Sweden). Data were collected on in-coming students to each country
by a standardised set of categories in order to establish statistics on both
stocks and flows, on new entrants, postgraduates, by gender and by country
of origin. Data were gathered for both "spontaneous" mobility and
for students mobile in the framework of EU programmes ("organised"
mobility such as ERASMUS, COMETT) and covered the period from 1989 to 1984
(four academic years).
Name of programme, funder or client:
Directorate General XXII of the European Commission
Expected outcomes, reports/documents: Jean-Pierre Jallade, Jean Gordon and Noëlle Lebeau, Student Mobility within the European Union: a statistical analysis. Volume I: Synthesis report and Volume II: Database, May 1996. (available in English and French)
Both volumes are also disseminated on-line by DG Education and Culture
For more information, please contact
Jean-Pierre Jallade jallade@dauphine.fr or Jean
Gordon gordon@dauphine.fr
