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Tran, Ly Thi; Blackmore, Jill; Rahimi, Mark – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: International student employability has been accorded increased emphasis in the internationalisation agendas, especially in major destination countries as it shapes universities' attractiveness to prospective international students. Having insights into returning graduates' employability in their home country has become critical given…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications
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Cheng, G.; Zhang, C.X.; Fan, Y.C.; Li, F.F.; Lin, L.; Zhu, X.B. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
A plan for national education to train outstanding engineers has been put into practice at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU). Practical education is a basic characteristic of engineering education. This paper proposed ideas and models to reform the mineral processing engineering education system and also described the discipline and the objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Mineralogy
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He, Yu; Mai, Yinhua – Higher Education Policy, 2015
College Enrolment Expansion policies have been implemented in China since 1999. Unfortunately, numbers of qualified teachers and the amount of educational funds input have not caught up with the pace of student intake. Even the curricula taught in colleges are outdated and work practice programmes are inefficient. As a result, new college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, College Attendance, Educational Policy
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D'Souza, Clare; McCormack, Silvia; Taghian, Mehdi; Chu, Mei-Tai; Sullivan-Mort, Gillian; Ahmed, Tanvir – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: Curricula is developing from a pure knowledge-based outcome to a more skill-based outcome, with the objective of creating and advancing competencies that meet employer expectations. While the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand organisations to change practices and adapt to sustainable goals, there is a lack of understanding…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Competency Based Education, Employer Attitudes, Administrators
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Blackmore, Jill; Gribble, Cate; Rahimi, Mark – Critical Studies in Education, 2017
Since the late 1970s, international education has steadily gained in popularity in China. An emerging middle class seeks to strengthen its position in China's rapidly stratifying society under its socialist market economy with the shift from wealth creation for all to wealth concentration for a few. Previously, a foreign qualification was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Labor Market
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Zhong, Zhou; Liu, Lu; Coates, Hamish; Kuh, George – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Staying abreast of developments in Chinese higher education is challenging. In addition to geopolitical circumstances, language, history, and culture can make it difficult for U.S. university leaders and policy makers to establish deep, meaningful relationships with Chinese colleagues. In addition, China is a huge country, with nuanced regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Cultural Differences, Educational Innovation
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Cai, Yuzhuo – Frontiers of Education in China, 2014
This paper explores ways to enhance overseas Chinese graduate employability by taking Finnish-educated Chinese students/graduates as an example. In so doing, it understands that graduate employability development is a joint effort of multiple stakeholders including students, graduates, academics, program coordinators, employers, and policymakers.…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Foreign Students, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
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Mandelbaum, Renee M. – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2014
Due to its flexibility and convenience, online education has become a feasible alternative for degree seeking students who are unable to attend a traditional higher education institution. Although online courses and programs have their benefits, there remains an ongoing debate on issues related to credibility, quality, and acceptability among…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Online Courses, Academic Degrees
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Mok, Ka Ho; Wen, Zhuoyi; Dale, Roger – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
In the last two decades, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of higher education in Mainland China and Taiwan, recording a significant increase in higher education enrolments in these two Chinese societies. The massification of higher education in China and Taiwan has inevitably resulted in an oversupply of university graduates, with growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Students, College Graduates
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Yong, Tang – World Journal of Education, 2012
In China, the conflict of university talents training program and market demands is increasingly attracting public attention. In order to satisfy the markets, the graduates should have abilities of combining theoretical knowledge with practice. Aiming at the issue of combining theoretical and practical knowledge, this paper takes construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Construction Management, Majors (Students)
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Qi, Yanli – Education for Information, 2011
The paper introduces data on the employment of postgraduates in the Department of Information Management of Peking University in 2000-2009. Master's graduates in LIS in Peking University have a wide job choice. In China, the job market for postgraduates in LIS is composed of enterprises and business organizations, rather than libraries and…
Descriptors: Information Management, Labor Market, Information Science, Foreign Countries
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Chinese Education and Society, 2006
This article presents the decision of the People's Court in Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province on the Jiang Tao v. Chengdu Branch, People's People's Bank of China case. Jiang Tao, the plaintiff, claimed that the defendant Chengdu Branch placed an announcement in the "Chengdu Business Daily" to "recruit tellers for Chengdu…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Court Litigation, Body Height, Employment Qualifications
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Dailin, Liu; Fengyan, Chang; Shuangxu, Yin; Fenglong, Zhang – Open Learning, 2008
Timely collection of feedback on the quality of teaching from graduates and their employers is of great significance in distance education, and can help enhance the quality of teaching and improve management and all-round learner support. However, since the graduates left university some years ago, are now widely dispersed and consequently may…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Design, Open Education, Distance Education
Yuche, Jerry Wang; Stewart, Bob R. – 2001
The international business competencies needed by business graduates in the United States and Taiwan were identified through a literature review and a modified Delphi technique. Thirty-three experts, including policymakers, business educators, and international business practitioners, rated the importance of 42 statements compiled from reviews of…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Business Skills