Abstract
This last issue of Volume 16 contains four interesting articles. They all have to do with international students but address different issues: student choices in international branch campuses, tuition fees for international students, international student security and English language proficiency, and one article on international students in American universities. Together, the four articles provide a broad picture of the push and pull factors in international student mobility in different parts of the world and different types of institutions of higher education.
This issue completes another great year for the Journal of Studies in International Education. Our impact factor has increased significantly, from 0.739 in 2010 (the first year it was measured) to 1.00 in 2011. We received more than 200 submissions, a record number for the journal and a reflection of its increasing importance as an academic peer reviewed journal. We thank our Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board as well as our pool of peer reviewers for their contribution to this success. In order to ensure visibility for interesting articles on international education that we are unable to publish, we have entered into a collaborative agreement with the EAIE Raabe Handbook on Internationalisation. This allows us to direct authors of potentially interesting articles which do not fit our Journal to the editors of the Handbook.
We also are pleased to advise that the SAGE Handbook on International Education, edited by Darla Deardorff, Hans de Wit, John D. Heyl and the late Tony Adams is now available at a reduced price to our readers. The Journal of Studies in International Education partnered with the Association for International Education Administrators (AIEA) in the publication of the Handbook which, in over 600 pages, provides a comprehensive overview and global perspectives on current themes and issues on the internationalisation of higher education. We recommend this Handbook to our readers. Members of the editorial board and advisory board of the Journal of Studies in International Education feature prominently as authors of the twenty-five chapters. For subscribers to the Journal a discount of 20% is available ($120 instead of $150): www.sagepub.com.
We would also like to draw your attention to four other recent publications on internationalisation of higher education.
Susan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger and Francine Menashy have edited a book ‘Public Private Partnerships in Education, New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World’, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK and USA, ISBN 978 0 85793 067
Nico Jooste edited ‘Benchmarking Across Borders’, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, ISBN 978 0 620 52170
Jos Beelen and Hans de Wit edited ‘Internationalisation Revisited: New Dimensions in the Internationalisation of Higher Education’, Centre for Applied Research on Economics and Management, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, ISBN/EAN 978 90 817122 0 0, www.carem.hva.nl.
Cross cultural teaching and learning for home and international students, edited by Janet Ryan, Routledge, UK, ISBN 978 0 415 63013 9.
These four books are an illustration of the increase in study and dissemination in the field of internationalisation of higher education. Contributors to these publications include the editors, members of the editorial and the editorial advisory boards and reviewers of the Journal of Studies in International Education as well as many other young and established scholars from a broad variety of disciplines. We hope you enjoy reading this issue of the Journal as well as the other publications referred to above.