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The Homecoming: An Investigation into the Effect that Studying Overseas Had on Chinese Postgraduates' Life and Work on Their Return to China
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Gill, Scherto – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
For over a decade, 50,000 Chinese students have come to study each year in the UK, and the majority of them have since returned and settled back in China. An understanding of their return journey and how relevant their overseas learning is to their home life and work environment is a key to the re-visioning of the internationalisation of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Asians
Learning and Growing in a "Foreign" Context: Intercultural Experiences of International Students
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Gu, Qing; Schweisfurth, Michele; Day, Christopher – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This paper discusses the background and key findings of a two-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded mixed-method research project (2006-2008) which was designed, within the context of university internationalisation, to provide an investigation of the experiences of first-year international students during their undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Study, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction