Getting Ahead As An International Student

Author : Burnapp, Dave
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335234530

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Getting Ahead As An International Student by Burnapp, Dave Pdf

How can I adapt to life at an English speaking university? How can I get good grades? This book unravels the background and culture of English speaking universities. It explains how you will be expected to learn and study in universities in English speaking countries, and how you can develop your skills to excel as an independent learner. While it is important to understand how to undertake academic tasks like referencing, essay-writing and presenting information, it is also useful to be aware as to why the university requires you to do them. Each section includes the approaches, methods and applied exercises that will help you to understand and develop your skills. Reflective exercises as well as group tasks are also included to help you develop the study skills that are necessary for successful completion of a course. You are also encouraged to keep a copy of each completed task (in a portfolio) in order to demonstrate the skills you have learned to prospective employers. Getting Ahead as an International Student is designed for international students studying at any level - foundation level, undergraduate or postgraduate - and using any mode of study including distance-learning.

Author : Steve Hutchinson,Helen Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781351939973

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Enhancing the Doctoral Experience by Steve Hutchinson,Helen Lawrence Pdf

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience. And more specifically, for an increasing number of international research students: the British doctoral experience. This experience is often largely defined and shaped by their relationship with, and support from, their supervisor. Enhancing the Doctoral Experience brings together the authors’ experience and research, frameworks and models as well as pragmatic feedback and understanding. This synthesis of scholarly theory and pragmatic sampling has produced a book that provides a scaffold for students and supervisors to have conversations about their expectations; to discuss what supervision is; to articulate clearly what both parties need in order for a successful relationship to occur, and to build a mutually beneficial endeavour. In many cases, these conversations can be complicated by cultural and linguistic differences so the text explicitly addresses these and other sources of misunderstanding. Against a challenging background of growing numbers of students but also increasing pressures on time and costs, Enhancing the Doctoral Experience offers an approach to improve the effectiveness of the doctoral student and increase the professionalization of research supervision. It does so by providing both with an awareness of, and a toolkit to approach, student diversity.

Author : Stella Cottrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781350315143

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50 Ways to Succeed as an International Student by Stella Cottrell Pdf

This friendly, accessible guide provides international students with 50 practical 'Ways' to help them make the most of their experience overseas. Each of the 50 'Ways' in this book is a starting point, offering suggestions of things to do and think about, alongside opportunities to reflect on, choose and commit to new ideas and actions. Spanning the whole international student journey, it will help students to recognise potential challenges, connect with other students and take action that will prepare them for life after their study abroad adventure. This is an ideal resource for any student who wants to make the most of their time studying overseas.

Author : Wing On Lee,Phillip Brown,A. Lin Goodwin,Andy Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2588 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811968877

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International Handbook on Education Development in the Asia-Pacific by Wing On Lee,Phillip Brown,A. Lin Goodwin,Andy Green Pdf

The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning and human development, workplace learning, teacher education and professionalization, higher education organisations, citizenship and moral education, and high performing education systems. The Handbook is grounded in specific Asia Pacific contexts and scholarly traditions, using unique country-specific narratives, for example, Vietnam and Melanesia, and socio-cultural investigations through lenses such as language identity or colonisation, while offering parallel academic discourse and analyses framed by broader policy commentary from around the world.

Author : Carol Dalglish,Peter Evans (FAICD.),Lynda Lawson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857931207

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Learning in the Global Classroom by Carol Dalglish,Peter Evans (FAICD.),Lynda Lawson Pdf

This unique and fascinating book is written for tertiary level students in the multi-cultural classroom, whether studying abroad or at home alongside international students. It relates a genuine understanding of the student perspective of learning in a multi cultural classroom, highlighting how students possess different learning styles and attitudes to teaching and learning and demonstrating that students not only face language issues, but also numerous other unanticipated challenges.

Author : Jane Golley,Linda Jaivin,Sharon Strange
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760464394

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Crisis by Jane Golley,Linda Jaivin,Sharon Strange Pdf

The year 2020 was marked by a series of rolling crises. The Australian wildfires at the start of the year were a catastrophic sign of the global climate crisis. Xi Jinping’s announcement in September that the People’s Republic of China would become carbon neutral by 2060 could help alleviate the crisis, but China has to fix its coal problem first. The big story was, of course, the global COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing to originate in a Wuhan wet market, by year’s end the pandemic had claimed nearly 2 million lives worldwide, put whole countries into lockdown, and sent economies around the world tumbling into recession. China itself successfully suppressed the disease at home and recorded positive economic growth for the year — proving, at least according to the Chinese Communist Party, the ‘superiority of the socialist system’. Not everyone was convinced, with persistent questions about the CCP’s initial cover up of the outbreak, and how the lack of transparency helped it become a pandemic in the first place. The China Story Yearbook 2020: Crisis surveys the multiple crises of the year of the Metal Rat, including the catastrophic mid-year floods that sparked fears about the stability of the Three Gorges Dam. It looks at how Chinese women fared through the pandemic, from the rise in domestic violence to portraits of female sacrifice on the medical front line to the trolling of a famous dancer for being childless. It also examines the downward-spiralling Sino-Australian relationship, the difficult ‘co-morbidities’ of China’s relations with the US, the end of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Hong Kong, the simmering border conflict with India, and the rise of pandemic-related anti-Chinese racism. The Yearbook also explores the responses to crisis of, among others, Daoists, Buddhists, and humourists — because when all else fails, there’s always philosophy, prayer, and laughter.

Author : Benjamin Mulvey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819985098

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Mapping International Student Mobility Between Africa and China by Benjamin Mulvey Pdf

This book examines an emergent pattern of international student mobility: that of international students from across the African continent who are enrolled on degree programmes at Chinese universities. China is among the most popular destination countries for African students, yet there has been little research to-date into this emergent mobility pattern. Drawing on data from a series of interviews, the book focuses on the specific modalities of integration into the global economy of both the sending region and the host country, and examines how these shape the decision-making, experiences, and future aspirations of mobile students. It also highlights how incipient flows of international student migrants, such as those between various African countries and China, are calling into question a number of the axioms around the study of international study mobility that were developed with reference to more established migration patterns, which tend to flow from other regions to the West. These include, for example, the idea that international students are generally privileged members of the global middle class who seek an education abroad as part of a strategy to accumulate cultural capital and reproduce social privilege. This novel work is of interest to researchers in human geography, sociology, development studies, migration studies, and particularly those studying China-Africa relations.

Author : T. Nicole Pankratz - Bodner
Publisher : Self-Counsel Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770407268

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Start & Run an ESL Teaching Business by T. Nicole Pankratz - Bodner Pdf

Over the past 20 years, teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) has grown by leaps and bounds and now generates billions of dollars every year. Waiting lists for class space attest to the overwhelming demand for ESL instruction in North America. This book provides all the hands-on practical tips you need to start your own ESL teaching business. Whether you want to begin tutoring from your home or start your own ESL school, this book provides the step-by-step guidance you will need to make your business a success. Teaching ESL is ideal for people with an entrepreneurial spirit. While related to formal education, ESL is more about business than it is about school. Those who do well in the ESL industry understand that students are in many ways customers. It is one thing to understand and know how to teach English grammar; it is quite another to start and run a successful ESL school. Start & Run an ESL Teaching Business will show you how to translate an interest in teaching and working with people from other countries into a profitable business.

Author : Bernhard Streitwieser,Anthony C. Ogden
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927779

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International Higher Education’s Scholar-Practitioners by Bernhard Streitwieser,Anthony C. Ogden Pdf

The idea of the professional who bridges both research and practice has been largely overlooked and at times even disregarded by the academic and administrative structures that govern activity in higher education today. In international higher education, the number of students who now engage in mobility and exchange has expanded globally, along with the administrative cadre that manages all facets of internationalization, and the quickly growing scholarly attention to understanding the phenomenon. In this process, two distinct professional categories have emerged: those who ‘study it’ and those who ‘do it’ – the scholars and the practitioners. Practitioners are seen as those who manage the daily logistical flow of students and personnel around the globe, while scholars are seen as those who conduct research, collect and analyze data, and publish findings to inform, improve, and justify the activity. Yet this dichotomy is overly simplistic, outdated, and excludes the large and growing class of hybrid scholar-practitioners who now engage regularly in both kinds of activity. It is this rapidly growing population of bridge builders that are profiled and discussed in this book through critical essays on the notion of the scholar-practitioner and its implication for the further development of international higher education. The chapters include detailed analyses from university faculty, senior international officers and other high-level administrators, directors of research centers, key leaders from influential professional associations and private organizations, managers of study abroad and exchange, and graduate students. This book launches a much-needed dialogue about the perception and reality, potential and promise, of the scholar-practitioner in higher education today. It will be of relevance to a wide variety of readers, from those within universities and organizations to those who are outside observers of higher education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Students, Foreign
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031054807

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Journal of International Student Personnel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Jan van Rossum,Rebecca Hamer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460912535

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The Meaning of Learning and Knowing by Erik Jan van Rossum,Rebecca Hamer Pdf

The Meaning of Learning and Knowing, co-authored by Erik Jan van Rossum and Rebecca Hamer, brings together empirical studies on epistemology, student thinking, teacher thinking, educational policy and staff development forging a solid and practical foundation for educational innovation.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781576077672

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Community Colleges by David Levinson Pdf

The only overview of research on the uniquely American community college system, which is increasingly becoming the site of entry for students seeking a higher education. This new volume shows why America's community colleges increasingly find themselves at the epicenter of social conflict, surrounded by unresolved questions such as: In a country based on the notion of equal opportunity, shouldn't all high school graduates have access to higher education? Are access and excellence really compatible? What is the real work of community colleges? Is it to provide transfer programs for students going on to baccalaureate colleges or training workers for careers in business and industry? In this comprehensive guide, readers will find not only a solid grounding in the latest research on these difficult questions but also a thoughtful analysis of the social forces that gave rise to American community colleges and still shape them today.

Author : Velliaris, Donna M.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522516118

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Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education by Velliaris, Donna M. Pdf

To maintain the quality of education, integrity and honesty must be upheld by students and teachers in learning environments. The prevention of cheating is a prime factor in this endeavor. The Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the implementation of policies and practices to inhibit cheating behaviors in academic settings. Highlighting emerging pedagogies, empirical-based evidence, and future directions, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, educators, school administrators, and researchers interested in preventing academic dishonesty.

Author : Stuart Karabenick,Timothy C. Urdan
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781781902929

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Transitions by Stuart Karabenick,Timothy C. Urdan Pdf

Focuses on the "Transitions" that take place at major points of potential discontinuity in students' developmental trajectories and across contexts at a given time point. In this title, development literature has examined how children's motivation and achievement are affected by the shift from pre-school to school.

Author : Brian Roberts
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0761941207

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Getting the Most Out of the Research Experience by Brian Roberts Pdf

Brian Roberts takes the researcher through the research process answering the practical and subjective questions anyone will face, on issues like: entering the field and emotional aspects of research, types of research and associated experiences writing and research 'blocks' and 'research confessions'.