Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia

While the world market for international students in higher education is dominated by traditional major players such as the US, UK and Australia, Malaysia has emerged as a recent contender with a market share of 2%. There is a gap in the literature in assessing the contributions of policy initiative...

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Main Authors:	Tham,, Siew Yean, Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal, Alavi, Rokiah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Routledge 2013
Subjects:	LB2300 Higher Education LC65 Social aspects of education
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/29222/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29222/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/29222/1/nahmad_accessing_policies.pdf

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spelling	iium-292222013-06-25T05:41:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/29222/ Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia Tham,, Siew Yean Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal Alavi, Rokiah LB2300 Higher Education LC65 Social aspects of education While the world market for international students in higher education is dominated by traditional major players such as the US, UK and Australia, Malaysia has emerged as a recent contender with a market share of 2%. There is a gap in the literature in assessing the contributions of policy initiatives, including trade agreements, towards attracting inbound international students, especially from emerging contenders such as Malaysia. The objective of this paper is to compare and assess the policy initiatives at the unilateral, multilateral, regional and bilateral level and their impact on the host environment which is defined in terms of the key pull factors that have attracted international students to Malaysia. The main findings show that domestic policy initiatives have enhanced the host environment for attracting international students by providing a governance system that protects the interests of international students through its regulations. Efforts to improve quality assurance and accreditation also serve to attract international students. The regulation of fees contributed towards competitively priced programmes that are also pull factors. Multilateral, regional and bilateral commitments are relatively new, emerging only after 2006, and have less potential influence on inflows of international students as these commitments reflect, at best, existing practices in this sector. Routledge 2013-03-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/29222/1/nahmad_accessing_policies.pdf Tham,, Siew Yean and Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal and Alavi, Rokiah (2013) Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia. Asia Pacific Journal Of Education , 33 (1). pp. 112-126. ISSN 0218-8791 10.1080/02188791.2012.759536
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description	While the world market for international students in higher education is dominated by traditional major players such as the US, UK and Australia, Malaysia has emerged as a recent contender with a market share of 2%. There is a gap in the literature in assessing the contributions of policy initiatives, including trade agreements, towards attracting inbound international students, especially from emerging contenders such as Malaysia. The objective of this paper is to compare and assess the policy initiatives at the unilateral, multilateral, regional and bilateral level and their impact on the host environment which is defined in terms of the key pull factors that have attracted international students to Malaysia. The main findings show that domestic policy initiatives have enhanced the host environment for attracting international students by providing a governance system that protects the interests of international students through its regulations. Efforts to improve quality assurance and accreditation also serve to attract international students. The regulation of fees contributed towards competitively priced programmes that are also pull factors. Multilateral, regional and bilateral commitments are relatively new, emerging only after 2006, and have less potential influence on inflows of international students as these commitments reflect, at best, existing practices in this sector.
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author	Tham,, Siew Yean Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal Alavi, Rokiah
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title	Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia
title_short	Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia
title_full	Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia
title_fullStr	Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia
title_sort	assessing policies for attracting international students: case of malaysia
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