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Resumo A mobilidade internacional de estudantes é um fenômeno de crescente importância no cenário da educação superior. Nota-se nos últimos anos um crescimento de estudos na literatura e investigações acerca deste tema. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo exploratório, cujo objetivo foi analisar as motivações e fatores de decisão no processo de mobilidade dos estudantes universitários brasileiros que elegeram a Espanha para seus estudos superiores. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa quantitativa, escala de Likert de 3 pontos, com 216 estudantes membros da comunidade estudantil brasileira na Espanha, distribuídos nos cursos de graduação, mestrado e doutorado, e o uso de fontes de dados estatísticos. A comparação entre os estudos anteriores da literatura e os resultados deste estudo demonstraram que os fatores nível acadêmico do centro e prestígio e perspectivas de futuro são coincidentes em ambos. De fato, esses fatores estão entre os mais significativos em quase todos os estudos de mobilidade internacional e também foram destacados pelos pesquisadores, confirmando a importância desses fatores na decisão de estudar no exterior. Por outro lado, entre os fatores que se apresentaram como mais relevantes no fluxo de estudantes brasileiros à Espanha, destacaram-se a experiência internacional, as bolsas de estudos, a imagem e cultura do país, o prestígio e as perspectivas futuras e o idioma espanhol. Abstract International mobility of students is a phenomenon of increasing importance in the higher education scenario. Over the last years, an increase of studies and investigations around this topic has been observed. This article presents the results of an exploratory study whose purpose was to analyze the motivations and decision factors in the process of mobility of Brazilian university students who chose Spain for their higher education. The methodology utilized was quantitative research, a 3-point Likert scale, with 216 students from the Brazilian academic community in Spain, spread across undergraduate, master, and doctoral courses, and the use of statistical data sources. Comparing previous studies in the relevant literature and the results of this study has demonstrated that factors as the institution´s academic level and prestige and forward-looking perspectives are coincidental in both. In fact, these factors are included among the most significant ones in almost all studies on international mobility and have also been highlighted by researchers, confirming the importance of these factors when making the decision of studying abroad. On the other hand, among the factors that come forward as the most relevant in the flow of Brazilian students towards Spain, standing out are the international experience, scholarships, the country´s image and culture, prestige and forward-looking perspectives, and the Spanish language.

This study demonstrates main reasons for choosing The National University of Malaysia (UKM) by internationalstudents and their needs and expectations toward the University. The study also shows the obstacles faced bythose students and their satisfaction towards UKM. A total of 108 questionnaires were distributed in the maincampus to the respondents who came from ten diffident countries. The main reasons for choosing UKM were itshigh ranking, reasonable tuition fees, faculty, programmes, and lecturers respectively. The results revealed thatthe main obstacles faced international students were tough visa procedures, improper hostels, social isolation anddiscrimination, and bureaucracy. Both the facilities and services of UKM and the studying approach have met theexpectations satisfaction of international students. Yet, both social relationship and participation in activities andliving conditions in UKM hostels have disappointed international students and did not meet their satisfaction. This study suggested that UKM should establish counselling unit and organise regular meetings to listen to the problemsand suggestions of those students. Volunteer and pre-enrolment activities should be organised to introduce theMalaysian culture and gather international students with their local peer. Moreover, international students shouldbe provided upon their arrival to UKM by hostels that combine proper conditions of living at a reasonable price. Keywords: international students, expectations, needs, satisfaction, internationalisation, intercultural communication

Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted in South Korea and the United States from May 2014 to August 2016, this dissertation examines elite reproduction of Korean families who sent their children to the United States for their education. Despite recent debates and active discussion on transnationalism and immigration populations, international student communities in American universities, especially those from the upper class of Asian countries, have not gained much attention. By focusing on a specific subgroup of Korean elite educational migrants, or yuhaksaeng, in the United States, my study attempts to begin filling this void and to add further value to anthropological studies. To explore how elite reproduction occurs, I examined the narratives of Korean elite families—250 yuhaksaeng who received higher education from top-ranked American universities and forty of their parents. In addition, I engaged in participant observation of various social gatherings in the Gangnam area of Seoul, Korea; New York City; and other major US cities in the Northeast. Drawing on the ethnographic data, my dissertation demonstrates that elite reproduction is an on-going venture fraught with numerous obstacles requiring continuous and deliberate effort and practice to overcome. It explores how yuhaksaeng and their parents attempt to navigate the arduous process of maintaining and reproducing the privileges across generations. Furthermore, it examines each step and educative practice that the participants collectively figure out within their exclusive transnational elite networks.

Cédric Klapisch's vision of encounters within the new Europe in L'Auberge espagnole offers a positive account of the new European project. The film's exclusive focus on young European ERASMUS students already underlines the aims and limitations of what is supposedly a broad cultural and educational exchange. The emphasis on learning about ‘other’ national cultures to achieve a more integrated European union quickly dissolves when the students abandon any interest in local culture, history or politics to focus instead on their own sexual and emotional rites of passage. Challenging the film's construction and ostensible celebration of the new European transnational identity, this article questions the validity and implications of constructing a representation of both Barcelona and Europe riddled with cultural clichés and iconic images of a city as a purely aesthetic experience. It also notes the film's failure to engage with the larger social and historical context that injects meaning into the urban fabric of Barcelona itself.

[ES] Esta tesis estudia los falsos amigos entre los idiomas español-inglés que se le presentan a estudiantes taiwaneses en el proceso de aprendizaje de la lengua española, y se proporcionan algunas soluciones a este tipo de problemas., [EN] This thesis studies the false friends between the Spanish-English languages that are presented to Taiwanese students in the process of learning the Spanish language, and provides some solutions to these problems.

In order to commit attacks against the U.S. homeland, terrorists must enter the country. Stopping their entry is key to preventing attacks. The 9/11 Commission's Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, identified pre-9/11 gaps/weaknesses in U.S. immigration, visa, customs, and border security systems. This thesis will consider the implementation of the 9/11 Commission's key recommendations for immigration: 1) provide standardized operational training and additional guidance to immigration, visa, and customs personnel, 2) establish a foreign student visa compliance and tracking system, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, (SEVIS), and 3) develop and implement the National Security Exit and Entry Registration System (NSEERS). This thesis will also assess the effectiveness of these policies as counterterror measures to determine if they can stop terrorists from entering the U.S. Bruce Schneier's Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World provides a five-step model to analyze and evaluate security systems, technologies, and countermeasures. His model will be applied to assess the implementation/effectiveness of the three key recommendations. To effectively establish priorities and efficiently allocate resources, policymakers require assessments of implemented homeland security recommendations. This thesis offers such an assessment. http://archive.org/details/trainingsevisndn109453645 US Air Force (USAF) author. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.