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Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The article explores how international students in China are engaging with employability-related programmes to enhance their employment outcomes in their home countries, underpinned by the Graduate Capital Model (GCM). Thirty international students in China participated in in-depth interviews. Findings revealed that international students studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Selective Admission, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
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Zhou, Zhen; Chen, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2021
The social part-time job is an important social practice, which can make college students integrate into society in advance and lay the foundation for future employment. This article investigates English majors in a normal university in Jiangxi Province via the questionnaire and personal interview. It aims to understand the current situation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Part Time Employment
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Pang, Bonnie; Perrone, Lisa; Wong, Jason – Chinese Education & Society, 2021
Chinese international students represent a significant social, economic and cultural force in Australian society. Research has demonstrated that Chinese students enrich Australia not only through their economic contribution, but through soft diplomacy and cultural links. Despite this, and the recent rapid growth in the number of Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Employment, College Students
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Hamlin, Alan R.; Barney, Steve T. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
The genesis and spread of COVID-19 around the world since 2020 have caused severe impacts in every aspect of people's lives, from work life to recreation, social activities to physical health. Higher education has not been excluded. Universities have altered curriculum, changed delivery methods, provided more counseling, purchased new technology,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Student Attitudes
Su, Mengwei – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of part-time, on-campus employment on Chinese international undergraduate students' integration and development on American campuses. In doing so, I focused on exploring how Chinese undergraduate students learn English, make friends with the domestic students, shape identities in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Employment, Asians
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Sukarieh, Mayssoun; Tannock, Stuart – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Currently dominant human capital and knowledge economy rhetoric holds that education can raise wages, empower workers and enhance working conditions. Education, however, can also have the opposite impact in the workplace and labour market, an impact that has received only limited attention. In this article we draw together a broad range of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Empowerment, Work Environment, Labor Market
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Hui, Bryant P. H.; Ngai, Pun; Qiu, Jack Linchuan; Koo, Anita – Youth & Society, 2020
Adolescent behavior is often negatively viewed especially regarding work experience. By introducing a concept of prosocial behavior, our study attempts to provide an alternative view on the effects of teenage job and work experience. We hypothesized that work experience could generate more prosocial behaviors. By surveying a large group of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Work Experience, Vocational Schools, Structural Equation Models
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to investigate how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are associated with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms 11 indicators of better outcomes linked to the ways in which teenagers explore, experience and think…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Employment
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Guo, Fei – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
As the labor market pressure for college graduates keeps rising in the past decade, working while attending college becomes increasingly popular among undergraduate students in China. With a nationally representative dataset of 6,977 students from 49 institutions, this study examines the incidence and influencing factors on undergraduate student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Employment, Part Time Employment
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Shah, Ashiq Ali; Lopes, Alexander; Kareem, Linah – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the challenges international students face during their studies at Kwantlen polytechnic university. The research focused on the English language, study-related and financial issues, and adjustment to life in Canada. The participants were 25 females and 38 male students of 18-35 years old from China, India and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Foreign Students, English (Second Language)
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Xiao, Jing Jian; Newman, Barbara M.; Chu, Bie-shuein – Youth & Society, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with career preparation of high school students in four countries: China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The human bioecological theory was used as a framework to examine personal, process, and context factors associated with career preparation of the adolescents. Data were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
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Zhao, Chunjuan; Mei, Zongxiang – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Motivating students has been a key challenge facing instructors in non-face-to-face instructional contexts. Existing researches into motivation in online learning environment have revealed that there are learning motivation differences among students from different cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to identify whether American and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Guo, Fei – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation study focuses on a current and controversial phenomenon in Chinese universities and colleges--student working during academic semesters. The massification of Chinese higher education since the year of 1999 raises the level of competition in the job market of college graduates. More and more undergraduate students participate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Employment
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Longerbeam, Susan D.; DeStefano, Thomas J.; Lixin, Yu – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2013
Chinese undergraduate student interaction with U.S. students and faculty shared significant relationships with positive perceptions of the U.S. campus climate in this study. Student interaction drew upon the contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954); faculty interaction drew upon Kuh and Hu (2001); and perceptions drew upon the campus climate for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Campuses, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
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Cheng, Baoyan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
Using an original dataset collected at a Chinese university and adopting a difference-in-differences research design, this study draws causal inferences regarding the effect of the Government-Subsidized Student Loan Program (GSSLP) on financially needy students at Chinese higher education institutions. Specifically, this study finds that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Educational Policy, College Students
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