abstract:Academic mobility refers to students and teachers in higher education moving to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time.
The total number offoreignstudentsinthe United Statesincreased by 2.9 percent, to 690, 923, during the 2009-10school year, according toan annualreport on internationalacademicmobility.
Nowhere is the blind complacency of the establishment more evident than in its bovine attitude toward academic degrees: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue.