- Title
- Educational mobility and EFL students and teachers in Saudi Arabia: Navigating diverse sociocultural and pedagogical spaces
- Creator
- Burke, Rachel
- Relation
- English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia New Insights into Teaching and Learning English p. 138-156
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/English-as-a-Foreign-Language-in-Saudi-Arabia-New-Insights-into-Teaching/Moskovsky-Picard/p/book/9780367484071
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Student mobility forms an important element of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's commitment to the internationalisation of its education system (Alhazmi 2013; Barnawi & Phan 2015; Denman & Hila! 2011; Mahboob & Elyas 2014; Phan & Barnawi 2015; Taylor & Albasri 2014; Varghese 2008). In 2005 the government implemented the King Abdullah Scholarship Program to encourage qualified Saudi citizens to complete higher education at foreign institutions (Taylor & Albasri 2014), to contribute to 'a high level of international academic and professional standards in Saudi Arabia', and to facilitate the exchange of 'scientific, educational and cultural experiences with various countries across the world' (Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission 2017, n.p.). The initiative was extended beyond the initial five-year period and is currently set to continue until 2019, funding 130,000 Saudi students to study abroad each year (Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission 2017). Scholarship allocation is informed by the Saudi economy's human resource requirements, with the objective of 'creating a highly qualified and skilled workforce' (Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission 2017, n.p.). In addition, collaborations such as the Memorandum of Co-operation in Higher Education between Saudi Arabia and Australia, signed in 2010, facilitate important research relationships and the exchange of academics and students (Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission 2017).
- Description
- 1st ed.
- Subject
- Saudi Arabia; students and teachers; spaces
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451825
- Identifier
- uon:44284
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781317421214
- Language
- eng
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