ABSTRACT

Research on international students’ post-study plans centres on factors influencing migration and career decisions. However, few studies have considered the impacts of individual institutions on students’ aspirations and their subsequent transitions after graduation. In this paper, I employ the notion of institutional habitus in order to explore the extent to which higher education institutions expand or limit the range of options that international students could envisage or realise. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 55 non-EU international postgraduate students from three different UK universities, this study aims to uncover the complex diversity that underpins ostensibly similar UK higher education degrees. Notwithstanding the overlapping influences of individual, family, friends and institution, I argue that individual institutions play a significant role in shaping the ways in which participants imagine and experience the field of possibilities after graduation. This perspective also enables a more detailed examination of differences between and within the institutions.

摘要

对国际学生的研究计划的研究集中在影响移民和职业决策的因素上。但是，很少有研究考虑个别机构对学生的理想及其毕业后的过渡的影响。在本文中，我采用制度习惯的概念来探讨高等教育机构在多大程度上扩展或限制了国际学生可以设想或实现的选择范围。该研究以对来自三所英国不同大学的55名非欧盟国际研究生的半结构化访谈为基础，旨在揭示表面上类似的英国高等教育学位的复杂多样性。尽管个人，家庭，朋友和机构的影响重叠，我认为，各个机构在塑造参与者想象和体验毕业后的可能性领域的方式中起着重要作用。这种观点还可以更详细地检查机构之间和机构内部的差异。