International Student Mobility: Approaches, Challenges and Suggestions for Further Research

This paper is dedicated to International Student Mobility (ISM) in Higher Education and contributes to the researchers’ growing interest towards various aspects of ISM. Such interest is justified by the fact that in the 1950s the worldwide number of students studying abroad is estimated to have been about 200 000, whereas by 2012 it increased to more than 2 million, at least in absolute terms. The paper is based on the results of exploratory research into the area and highlights gaps in the existing knowledge, conceptual inconsistencies and other challenges associated with researching ISM. However, the main point of the presentation is to raise academic awareness about new ideas associated with the topic, to share new, successful approaches to researching ISM and to suggest the nature of implications that ISM research findings may offer to the academic community.