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Race and Neoliberalism in the Labour Market Integration of International Student Graduates in Canada
Everton G. Ellis – Journal of International Students, 2023
This paper illustrates the mutually constitutive processes of race and neoliberalism in the labour market navigation and integration for Black Caribbean and South/Southeast Asian international student graduates in Canada. The data was gathered from recent international students and key informants in Canada's immigration policy circle using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Foreign Students, Neoliberalism
Hu, Jim; Gonzales, Lachlan – BC TEAL Journal, 2020
This article presents study results on workplace writing from English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) employees' perspectives, and shares findings about how educational institutions in British Columbia can better prepare EAL students to write in the workplace. In post-secondary academic writing, content rather than writing accuracy is often…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Work Environment, Accuracy
Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
'Employers know that they can hire worldwide now … so, there is limitless supply of people … who can do the job … . they're all qualified, most of them are actually over-qualified … . I'm a wage slave basically, I don't think we have very much social status … . we are replaceable workers … I mean, the employer holds all the cards really. We are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Underemployment, Employment Patterns
Drewery, David; Nevison, Colleen; Pretti, T. Judene – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative effects of participation in cooperative education (co-op) and engagement in reflection upon previous work experiences on undergraduate students' vocational self-concept (VSC) at graduation. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional survey of graduating students (n = 1,483) from a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Work Experience, Reflection, Self Concept
Kwan, Covina Y. W. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2014
This paper is based on a study of three Confucius Institutes in Canada. The research aims to explore the nature of operations at Confucius Institutes, ranging from the selection of partnering Chinese universities, to the program planning at each individual site. Specifically, it focuses on the perceived impacts of the Confucius Institute…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
Seifert, Tricia A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
This study examined student affairs and services staff members' perceptions of their work relative to items developed from the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services' (CACUSS's) mission statement (CACUSS, 1989). Using data collected from student affairs and services staff members at English-speaking postsecondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Seifert, Tricia A.; Burrow, Jeff – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Student affairs and services divisions and the partnerships and collaborations in which they engage with faculty, students, and the community form the structural centre of institutions' approaches to student support. Although past research has identified areas typically associated with the student affairs and services portfolio and factors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Workers, Postsecondary Education, Organizational Theories
Shimoni, Rena; Barrington, Gail; Wilde, Russ; Henwood, Scott – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Two interrelated studies were undertaken to assist Alberta post-secondary institutions with meeting challenges associated with providing services to diverse distributed students that are of similar quality to services provided to traditional classroom students. The first study identified and assessed best practices in distributed learning; the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Special Needs Students, Student Diversity, Best Practices
Conrad, Dianne L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2008
The study that informs this article investigated how online learners' participation in and perception of their sense of learning community contributed to or affected their relationship to their workplace environment and their workplace colleagues. The findings support contentions that, in the workplace, the work itself constitutes the most…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Work Environment, Peer Relationship, Employee Attitudes
Rajagopal, Indhu – Review of Higher Education, 2004
This paper examines limited-term full-time faculty (LTFTs) in Canadian universities in 1991-1992 in response to the author's survey. It addresses the following issues: the faculty hierarchy, the characteristics of LTFTs, career paths, career aspirations and job prospects, barriers to achieving tenure-stream positions, workloads, perceptions of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Vertical Organization, Teacher Characteristics, Career Development