The 6th Annual International Universities Networking Conference – IUNC Eurasia 2017 will take place from May 15-18, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. The conference attracts about 250 international higher education professionals from around the world with the goals of learning more about the opportunities of building partnerships for recruitment, research, and exchanges with universities from Russia & CIS. This year IUNC is also hosting a BRICS HigherEd Cooperation Forum that provides a platform for developing university partnerships among institutions from BRICS countries.
Dr. Rahul Choudaha of DrEducation and interEDGE will be delivering an invited keynote session titled “Three Waves of International Student Mobility: Implications for Recruitment and Partnership Strategies.” It will be based on his upcoming research publication “Three Waves of International Student Mobility (1999-2020)“, Studies in Higher Education (SIHE), a highly respected journal with an impact factor of 1.22.
The conference includes following featured speakers:
- Prof Da-Yung Wang, Ph.D., Chancellor, MingDao University, Taiwan
- Mr. Jerke Verschoor, Director Netherlands Education Support Office, Nuffic Neso Russia
- Dr Suzanna Tomassi, Acting Deputy Director, Centre for Global Engagement, Coventry University, UK
| Country of origin | Destination country | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of mobile students hosted | 213,347 | Total number of mobile students abroad | 54,923 |
| Top-10 | 153,314 | Top-10 | 36,954 |
| Kazakhstan | 49,252 | Germany | 9,953 |
| Belarus | 24,880 | United States | 5,203 |
| Turkmenistan | 15,662 | Czechia | 4,379 |
| Uzbekistan | 12,783 | United Kingdom | 3,933 |
| Azerbaijan | 12,680 | France | 3,599 |
| Ukraine | 12,043 | Finland | 2,799 |
| Tajikistan | 8,490 | Italy | 2,019 |
| China | 7,954 | Belarus | 1,953 |
| Republic of Moldova | 5,336 | Ukraine | 1,814 |
| Armenia | 4,234 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,302 |
Source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (2016)