Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 2:55:59 GMT -6
Studying on an exchange abroad is an option that has spread in recent decades. Every year, millions of students of all educational levels travel to study in a foreign country . Although the experience of studying on an exchange abroad is recommended at any level of education, students are more inclined to do so when they reach more advanced levels or tertiary education (university training and higher-level vocational training). On average, in the OECD, 3% of those who study short cycles of tertiary education, 5% of those who study a degree and 24% of those who study a doctorate are international mobility students . Regarding Spain, in 2021, international students represented 1.2% of the total students in short cycles of tertiary education, 1.7% of those studying a degree, 9.0% in master's degree and 19.5% in doctoral degrees. But the opportunity to study and train with exchange periods abroad does not exist only for higher education students. Increasingly, secondary education students are also encouraged to embark on this path, mainly through their educational centers.
CTA Post Options for non-university exchange studies The flagship of European student mobility and, therefore, of the internationalization of education in Europe, is Erasmus+ , the European Union's largest educational exchange program for education, training, youth and sport. Erasmus+ mobilities for higher education students are well known , but the Erasmus+ exchange study program, always within the framework of educational centers, is loaded with mobility opportunities for both students and teachers of all levels. Students participate in group study exchanges (lasting 2 to 30 days) and in individual Europe Mobile Number List exchanges for periods of between 10 and 365 days. Mobilities occur to host educational centers in other countries. Student accommodation usually occurs with families from the same reception center, who act voluntarily, which facilitates greater cultural and social immersion for these adolescents. In the case of individual mobilities , the sending educational center, the receiving school, the student and their family agree, before the beginning of the mobility, on a learning agreement that includes the study program, the expected results, the measures monitoring, tutoring and support, the evaluation of learning results and their recognition, as well as reintegration measures at the sending center once the mobility ends.
Hundreds of thousands of exchanges abroad Erasmus+ is a successful participation program also before the university stage. In School Education (that is, primary and secondary), according to the latest annual report on the program published by the European Commission , during the year 2021 (a complex year, given the restrictions on mobility in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic). COVID-19), a total of 186,100 mobilities of students and staff in this educational sector were carried out, of which 76% were students, mostly in secondary education. To put these figures in context, the report indicates that exchanges abroad in higher education in that same year were 280,500, nearly 80,000 in vocational training (except higher education) and just over 5,000 in adult education. Furthermore, the increase in the budget available in the years 2022 and 2023 and beyond, the end of the pandemic, as well as the growing demand for exchange studies, ensure an undoubted and significant increase in the number of these study exchanges abroad in all regions. stages. Mobility for teachers Also, teachers at all levels have the possibility of participating in observation periods in other foreign educational centers, or in structured training activities , in order to learn about new classroom methodologies , about the application of new knowledge, or about the organization of spaces and centers, among many other topics of interest.