The entrepreneurial state

Abstract

This chapter consider the ways in which governments regulate the inward movement of students, and the regulation of outbound student mobility. One notable feature of the frameworks considered in the chapter is the extensive regulatory frameworks in place in those countries that are the most active in recruiting full-fee-paying students, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. It considers the ways in which governments regulate the inward movement of students, and in the regulation of outbound student mobility. In these countries the state does not usually fund or directly provide education to foreign students, but a dense web of regulatory measures is in place to govern a market in which relatively autonomous providers engage with and recruit independently mobile students. In other places in which host governments are able to control the flow of students more directly by funding and/or providing education, such extensive regulatory frameworks are not as evident.