1. Meeting of the BFUG working-group on mobility 13 January 2010
Indicators on international student mobility for assessing the Bologna Process
Meeting of the BFUG working-group on mobility
13 January 2010

2. Benchmark indicator What the Communiqué says:
Target refers to graduates and not mobile students enrolled;
Target includes implicitly long-term and short-term mobility;
Target seems to refer to outbound mobility;
What the Communiqué leaves open:
Types of short-term mobility to be considered (credit mobility / other short-term mobility);
Which destinations should be taken into account, whole world or other countries of the EHEA?
Level of education (cycle). Bachelor, Master or both?
Period of studies of the graduate during which short-term mobility should have taken place.
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Education Statistics

3. Benchmark indicator Types of short-term mobility Credit mobility
Mobility for the purpose of gaining credit; after mobility students return to home institution;
Institution is aware of mobility;
Not collected, but can be integrated in current data collection tools;
Other short-term student mobility
Other stays abroad during higher education studies, for a relevant activity and a relevant period of time;
Institution usually not aware;
Not collected and it’s difficult to integrate with current framework;
Proposal: Include only credit mobility
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Education Statistics

4. Benchmark indicator
Combining long-term and short-term outbound mobility
Origin
Country x
Another country
Destination
for
graduation
country x
Did not go to
another country
for credit a b
went to another
country for
credit c d e f
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Education Statistics

5. Benchmark indicator
Data currently collected at international level does not allow its computation
Data on diploma mobility is collected from the country of destination and by country of origin;
Number of graduates that have spent some time abroad (credit mobility) is not collected.
Regional scope of destination
Proposal: EHEA + other OECD countries
Level of education (cycle)
Any programme up to 2nd cycle qualification?
Study period of reference during which credit mobility takes place
During the programme the student is completing
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Education Statistics

6. Supplementary indicators
Distinguishing between diploma mobility and credit mobility
Other short-term mobility
Mobility by socio-economic background of the students
Balance between inbound and outbound
Regional balance
Measuring the level of integration of the EHEA
Market share of EHEA in worldwide mobile students
07-Jan-10
Education Statistics