International education policymaking: A case study of Ontario’s Trillium Scholarship Program

This paper explores Ontario’s international education policy landscape through illuminating the discursive struggles to define international student funding policies, in particular the international doctoral students’ Trillium Scholarship. Adopting Hajer’s (1993, 2006) Discourse Coalition Framework,...

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Published in:Canadian journal of higher education (1975) 2020-01, Vol.50 (4), p.1-19
Main Author: El Masri, Amira
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actors
Actresses
Case Studies
Cost recovery
Discourse Analysis
Doctoral Students
Education policy
Educational Finance
Educational Policy
Fees & charges
Foreign Countries
Foreign students
Funding
Higher education
International Education
Persuasive Discourse
Policy Formation
Politics
Politics of Education
Protectionism
Recruitment
Research Methodology
Scholarships
Secondary Education
Students, Foreign
Tuition
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Summary:This paper explores Ontario’s international education policy landscape through illuminating the discursive struggles to define international student funding policies, in particular the international doctoral students’ Trillium Scholarship. Adopting Hajer’s (1993, 2006) Discourse Coalition Framework, the study engages with three research questions: What paved the way to this funding policy? Who were the actors engaged in this policy landscape? How has the argumentation over this policy influenced the international education policy context in Ontario? Argumentative discourse analysis was used to analyze three data sources: news articles, policy documents, and interviews. Two storylines were identified: international student funding is desirable and beneficial to Ontario versus Ontario first. Whereas the first storyline achieved hegemony, the second succeeded in bringing discourses of protectionism to the forefront influencing the government’s future engagement with international student funding. The paper ends with three observations on Ontario’s international education policy landscape. This study contributes to our understanding of how international student funding can be highly political and influenced by non-education policy spaces and discourses.
ISSN:0316-1218
2293-6602
DOI:10.47678/cjhe.vi0.188819