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Student Market Challenge To Academic Integrity in Competitive Higher Education: Prof Sam-Blay
Student Market Challenge To Academic Integrity in Competitive Higher Education: Prof Sam-Blay
Analysis of the
underpinning causes
therefore focus on issues
such as culture and lack of
appropriate or adequate
orientation for students
Academic Integrity and the Funding
Nexus
• Thesis
– In a diminishing funding environment, there is
intense competition particularly among public
higher education providers for:
• Scarce public funds
• Full fee paying international students where
permissible
– The competition to admit and retain
international students has a direct impact on an
institutions’ ability to address issues of academic
integrity
The Context: The Funding Squeeze
• Before the 2008 financial crises, education
was given top priority in the national budgets
of most OECD countries.
• The share of public expenditure spent on
education increased from 11.8% in 1995 to
13.1% in 2005.
The Context: The Funding Squeeze
• The OECD reports that ‘since 2010 an
increasing number of countries have put
austerity measures in place as a
consequence of fiscal consolidation’.
• Although GDP rose in most OECD
countries between 2009 and 2010 (on
average by 3%), public expenditure on
educational institutions increased by
only 1% on average and fell in more than
one-third of OECD countries.
• In 2010 public expenditure decreased for
the first time in Austria, Ireland, New
Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the
United States by 2% or less and by more
than 10% in the Russian Federation.
The Scramble for Alternative Sources for
Funding: The International Student Market
• Attractive/seamless
The visa conditions
competition • Easier part-time
work conditions
for • Offers of
international scholarships
students: • Permanent resident
opportunities
The International Student Numbers:
The Case of Australia
• International students
now make up
Australia’s third largest
export industry and
contribute $22.4 billion
to the Australian
economy.
The Case of the United States
• The number of
international students in
the US has increased
more than 40% in the last
decade and exceeded the
1million mark in 2015/16
• International students
contributed US$33 billion
to the US economy in
2016, while supporting
more than 400,000 jobs
International Student Market as Big
Business
• In all host states, international student
education is big business and represent an
important source of funding for many
universities.
• It was 2 million a decade ago; it is close to 5
million now; it is to anticipated to be 8 million
in another decade.
• It is a 100+ billion dollar industry
The Challenge
When academic enrolments become
big business, sustainability imposes
significant risks for academic integrity
from admissions to graduation