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This book is an empirical account of how students experience and conceptualise internationalisation of higher education at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. The conceptual framework presents the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) within three domains- the official, pedagogical and social- as the context within which the university operates. Adopting phenomenography as the research approach, four main constructs on internationalisation emerged from students' accounts. This book argues that, though students converge to four constructs, their difference on the emphasis and significance points to a scenario of unbalanced institutional mediation with strong mediation within the logic of the dominant pedagogical practice within the university constrained by forms of weak mediation in the social domain.