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Huan Li; Jisun Jung; Hugo Horta – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Research on the career trajectories of doctoral recipients often assumes that all PhD students begin in roughly the same starting position. Consequently, the impact of pre-programme experiences remains understudied. This qualitative study draws on 59 interviews with PhD students studying in mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the influence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Masters Programs, Prior Learning
Tao Guan; Ning Luo; Koji Matsunobu – Music Education Research, 2024
The question of how to better prepare ethnic minority students to access higher music education has raised concerns around the world in terms of educational equity and cultural diversity. In China, despite similar concerns, little is known about the preparation process and experiences of ethnic minority students to take the Music College Entrance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Music Education, Ethnic Groups
Liu, Xiaoxu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
This study investigates how educational equity is applied in university preparatory classes from the perspective of minority students. It explores minority students' access to, participation and outcomes in preparatory classes, as well as the factors that influence their experience and attitude. Using a mixed research method, 320 students from a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Minority Group Students, Access to Education, Student Participation
Yang, Lu; Coxhead, Averil – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Growing a large vocabulary is one of the most important tasks of language learners and yet research reports on low levels of lexical knowledge for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. In EFL contexts, textbooks are a vital source of exposure to English and the words that are worth learning. The New Concept English textbook series is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Lisa Xue – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With the high enrollment number of Chinese international students in U.S. universities, there has been an increase in the amount of research on the difficulties and challenges these students face in their American-university life. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the key processes and procedures of the pathway program from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Study, Transitional Programs
Julie Hyde; James S. Wright; Andi Xie – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
An investigation was carried out into laboratory practical skills development and students' specific challenges in transition from laboratory chemistry at Chinese High School (HS) to a fully English style university laboratory course. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study of its type investigating practical laboratory skills for a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, High School Students
Felix Goodbody – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2023
The growth of Sino-foreign cooperative universities, departments and courses in China necessitates further discussion of how to develop teaching approaches that suit students attending these institutions. Despite substantial analysis of the commercial dimensions of Sino-foreign university partnerships, discussion of effective teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Barriers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Green, Daniel T. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Chinese parents are increasingly embracing college as a means to a better future for their children. Private independent institutions are prevalent throughout the country, yet there is continued apprehension about the type of education that is offered at independent universities. This qualitative narrative study reveals the life stories and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
Sandy, William – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
Since more Indonesian students are coming to pursue higher education in China, understanding the factors influencing Indonesian students' satisfaction could facilitate Chinese higher education institutions and the policymakers to improve and develop their services to match the needs of current Indonesian students in China and to attract potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Satisfaction, Foreign Students
Teo, Ian; Arkoudis, Sophia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Foundations studies programs (FSPs), sometimes termed pathways programs, seek to prepare international students for an undergraduate education. While enrolments in these programs continue to grow in Australia, there has correspondingly been little research exploring how FSP students experience their transition into university life and study. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
Moon, Krystyn R. – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
This essay explores the experiences and debates surrounding preparatory schools for Chinese students in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. These institutions attempted to expand educational opportunities for poorer Chinese students who might otherwise not have had a chance to go to school; however, most of these children also…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Low Income Students, Access to Education, Racial Bias
Gordon, June A.; Liu, Xiangyan – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2014
This article argues that new international programs within public secondary schools in China represent a vigorous and legitimatized approach to meeting the demands of newly affluent Chinese families for pre-collegiate education that equals the best international standards and constitutes preparation for higher education at the leading universities…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Educational Practices, Educational Change, International Education
Wang, Guanghai; Ren, Fen; Liu, Zhijun; Xu, Guangxing; Jiang, Fan; Skora, Elizabeth; Lewin, Daniel S. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Deficient sleep is linked to detrimental outcomes in health and school performance for adolescents. This study characterized sleep patterns in Chinese adolescents preparing for the College Entrance Exam (CEE) and evaluated the association between sleep patterns, self-rated academic performance, and the CEE scores. Methods: A sample of…
Descriptors: Sleep, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Yamada, Naomi C. F. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
In both China and in the United States, policies of "positive discrimination" were originally intended to lessen educational and economic inequalities, and to provide equal opportunities. As with affirmative action in the American context, China's "preferential policies" are broad-reaching, but are best known for taking ethnic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Kim, Sungwon; Fong, Vanessa L. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
This study examines how ten young adults in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China, perceived how their parents helped them with homework during their childhood and adolescence. Between 2011 and 2012, we interviewed five men and five women from Dalian who had first been recruited in 1999 from a college prep high school, a vocational high school,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Parent Role, Young Adults
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