Doing it differently: national and global re-regulation and trans-national student citizens

Having completed the comparative analysis of Australia and New Zealand in the previous chapter, this chapter focuses on current efforts to reform international education and student welfare nationally and globally. The chapter draws implications for reform at these two levels using the literatures on regulation and governance. Finally, the question of creating a ‘trans-national student citizenship’ regime is canvassed. This involves merging conceptual and practical lessons to combine regulation and governance perspectives, and to integrate national international student support structures with global mechanisms. Both formal and informal welfare aspects are considered, as is the relationship between them, for the fostering of trans-national student citizens.