Abstract
Student academic mobility is described as the movement of students from one country to another for studying undergraduate and/or graduate degrees. Students' academic mobility involves two factors: before academic mobility factors and after academic mobility factors. The current study aims at identifying the perceptions of Turkish university students regarding before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors. The study adopted an interpretive methodology under qualitative research paradigm. Focus-group-interviews(FGIs) and in-depth-interviews(I-DIs) were applied for data collection process. Focus-group-members(FGMs) were 50-TUSs studying at various departments and various universities in NC. FGIs were applied to identify factors contributing to before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors. I-DIs were taken place with 60-different-Turkish-university-students(dTUSs) studying at various departments of universities in NC to identify the common before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors. Interpretive approach was applied for data collection process and data were analysed through content analysis. Results reveal that Turkish university students experience pull and push factors as before academic mobility factors. Additionally, faced factors and expected factors are identified as part of the after academic mobility factors. In conclusion, pull factors involve educational-quality, personal-contribution and adaptation-quality. Similarly, push factors include departmental-issues, familiarities, family and country factors. Also, faced factors contain factors regarding finance, difficulties and dangers whereas expected factors involve factors regarding campus-quality and valuing-the-self.
Highlights
This research paper reports the findings and discusses the results of a research project investigating the experiences of Turkish university students (TUSs) who are carrying out their undergraduate and graduate studies at five universities in North Cyprus
The article explored the influence of their intercultural adaptation and inquired into how these influences effect them during their stay in North Cyprus (NC) by identifying the factors contributing to their academic mobility reasons as before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors
Importance of identifying the perceptions of Turkish students regarding before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors contributing to their academic mobility to study in North Cyprus are important because this kind of identification gives rise to strongly contribution to finding out how to deal with the before and after academic mobility factors of Turkish university students, how to handle with their problems and/or issues they face/experience and expect, and explore and deal with additional management issues in relation to the identified factors
Summary
This research paper reports the findings and discusses the results of a research project investigating the experiences of Turkish university students (TUSs) who are carrying out their undergraduate and graduate studies at five universities in North Cyprus. The driving force for accepting mobility is mostly based on the “social networks of friendship and kinship” [7] International students having such kind of social networks of both friends and family, intentionally or unintentionally, decide to study overseas ([7]; [14]). Importance of identifying the perceptions of Turkish students regarding before academic mobility and after academic mobility factors contributing to their academic mobility to study in North Cyprus are important because this kind of identification gives rise to strongly contribution to finding out how to deal with the before and after academic mobility factors of Turkish university students, how to handle with their problems and/or issues they face/experience and expect, and explore and deal with additional management issues in relation to the identified factors
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