The most common reasons for study migration on the example of Slovak students in Brno

• Autoři: MYŠÁK Ondřej
• Rok publikování: 2022
• Druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
• Popis: Educational migration is one of the main components of migration as such. There are a huge number of places in the world where students from all over the world go. These places are characterized by the presence of large and popular universities attracting foreign students. Foreign students can provide a variety of advantages to the host country, such as a high level of education of the population in the territory, or the consequent presence of multinational companies that often employ university graduates. A variety of economic, social, and societal reasons lead foreign students to choose universities abroad. There are a number of push and pull factors in the actual process of deciding whether a student chooses to study abroad. The size of these factors also depends to some extent on the individual case, but in some context, they can be well generalized. My aim, in the example of Slovaks studying in the city of Brno, is to point out the motives and reasons for choosing to study abroad, as well as the push and pull factors that influence potential students during the course of choosing a place of study. In fact, Slovak students make up a relatively large share of the total number of university students in Brno, in some faculties even absolute numbers of Slovak students exceed Czech ones. The reason for this high number of Slovak students in Brno is a common history, in the recent past existence of a common state, or almost no language barrier. A questionnaire survey was chosen as a research method in which students were questioned about the main reasons for their choice of study abroad, as well as what reasons led them to study in the Czech Republic, more specifically in Brno. The results show that the main reasons for studying abroad, for example, are the higher perceived quality of education compared to universities in the home country, or a higher choice of courses. The motives of study can be divided into those of an economic and non-economic character, for example those linked to better living conditions being considered economic factors.