Internationalising Higher Education

The higher education sector has experienced an increasing trend in the internationalisation through the diversification of delivery modes and the changing patterns of international student recruitment. Programme mobility rather than student mobility provides the new format of international strategy in the higher education sector. Whether these students can benefit from an authentic UK experience without being in the UK can be problematic and controversial. This poster will examine the impact of these strategies on the foreign students' education experience, employability and career development. The aim is to explore the relationships between higher education and employment and thus assess the actual value of degree studies within the Hong Kong labour market. Preliminary findings reveal that a residual colonial heritage plays a significant role on the creditability of the British Higher Education degrees in Hong Kong. Even still, data show that socio-political and economic factors may contribute negatively to Hong Kong students' mobility to study physically in an overseas university.