STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AND TRANSLATOR TRAINING - 3 ECONOMIC-PRINCIPLES

Abstract

The importance of student exchange programmes is mostly overlooked in the planning and discussion of translator training. However, application of a few basic economic principles shows that these programmes present quite radical possibilities for rationalising current teaching practices. In particular, when exchange programmes are seen as a mode of international trade, as a distribution of resources and as a general relation of intellectual production, serious questions must be raised about the ideal cost‐effectiveness, specialisation, student coverage rate, socialisation and professionalisation of the training process.