Fees, flows and imaginaries: exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility

• DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2017.1412822
• Publication Date: 2017-12-11T09:40:29Z
• Authors: Allan Findlay; Helen Packwood; David McCollum; Glenna Nightingale; Scott Tindal
• Keywords: Capital (architecture); Capital region

Are intra-national student flows driven by the same forces as international mobility? This paper addresses this question analysing cross-border mobility in UK. The identifies four principles that one might expect to drive destination choices of students from Scotland enrolling English universities. Following a statistical analysis choices, it is argued moves England are stimulated some global (such desire accumulate cultural capital), but terms choice imaginaries held Scottish 'good' places study capital constructed differently students.