Choosing the Right Pathway

Abstract

The Eynesbury Institute of Business and Technology (EIBT) is a pre-university pathway institution to the University of Adelaide or the University of South Australia. This chapter contributes to improving the understanding of the various factors that underpinned EIBT students' decision with regards to choosing Australia, and more specifically Adelaide and EIBT, as their study destination. International student applicants are located within a complex matrix of influences that can be effectively represented by overlapping spheres of push (operating in the home country) and pull (operating in the host country) factors. As evidenced in the qualitative data collected from a mandatory online questionnaire targeted at newly enrolled EIBT students, international mobility not only contributes to the internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), but also impacts on the outlooks, subsequent lifestyles and future careers of the students themselves. Pathway institutions offer valuable partnerships for HEIs and this study contributes to that rather shallow body of knowledge.