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Acquah, Emmanuel O.; Commins, Nancy L. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Studying in a foreign country, where one becomes a cultural outsider and where one lacks knowledge of and access to dominant cultural practices, can be a perfect context for challenging students' values, beliefs, and attitudes, particularly when these experiences are coupled with coursework on diversity. This study explored international students'…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Student Journals
Morgan, Gareth – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
The global movement of students in higher education is a relatively recent phenomenon, which has gained momentum in the last 30 years. Much research has been focused on the experiences of this population. Relatively little is known about international allied healthcare students who undertake clinical placements as part of their undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience
Yang, Yanxian; Badger, Richard – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
IELTS scores are widely used in combination with academic results as a way of judging whether non-English background students should be admitted to degree-level courses in Anglophone contexts. However, successful study at university requires more than language competence and intellectual ability and international students often seem to start from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Socialization, Asians, Second Language Learning
Hyatt, David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This project explores stakeholders' perceptions of the role of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in the admissions processes of UK higher education (HE) institutions. The term "stakeholders" here refers to HE academic and administrative staff responsible for the acceptance of students whose first language is not…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, Stakeholders
Rafferty, Patricia D. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This article forms part of an exploration into the results of a single-case, embedded study that was conducted to explore how domestic part-time graduate business students in the United States experience group work for summative assessment. Multiple information collection methods were utilised, including open-ended and semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Part Time Students, Business Administration Education, Summative Evaluation
Rowland, Caroline Ann; Hall, Roger David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
Full-time MBA students amount to about one-third of the 26,000 students enrolled on MBA programmes at UK universities. The programmes have become increasingly international in student composition and concerns have been expressed about performance, quality and comparability between programmes. Research into predictors of MBA success has been…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees
Wu, Wenli; Hammond, Michael – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
This paper reports on the adjustment of East Asian Master's level students who came to study at a campus-based university in the UK during 2004-05. International students face challenges in respect to language proficiency, academic expectations and social participation. In this longitudinal study the experiences of a group of students from East…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Culture Conflict, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries