ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of governments in students' home countries in relation to outward degree mobility. Governments tended to uninvolved in the movement of privately funded students, or to try to restrict outward mobility of their citizens. The chapter examines how states manage the extent of participation in outbound degree mobility, to reduce numbers of students going abroad, in other to increase mobility, and in some cases to broaden access to particular groups of students. The governments are interested in who is studying abroad, and how to change the composition of the mobile population to meet a particular policy objective. This is not a new problem, it was pointed out long ago that 'the interests of individuals studying abroad are not necessarily congruent with national interests and that it is hard to force congruence'. The chapter concerns the welfare of outbound students, of consumer protection and pastoral care.
