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Thoo, Ai Chin; Lim, Matthew Boon Pin; Huam, Hon Tat; Sulaiman, Zuraidah – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2022
Educational tourism has gained popularity worldwide due to the emergence of the knowledge economy that has increased the global demand for tertiary education. Therefore, the trend has inspired this study to examine the factors affecting international students' destination loyalty to revisit and recommend Malaysian higher educational institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Tourism
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Songcun Zhang; Zuwati Hasim – SAGE Open, 2023
With the internationalization of higher education, more Chinese students are pursuing their postgraduate study in English-medium instruction (EMI) institutions abroad. Related studies have mostly investigated EMI policies and implementation and students' attitudes; however, they have not examined how Chinese students cope in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Coping
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Khairina; Roslan, Samsilah; Ahmad, Noorlila; Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab; Arsad, Nurazidawati Mohamad – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The benefits of internationalization in higher education are indisputable. However, students studying abroad may face difficulties such as adjustment issues since they are away from home and go through a new stage in their lives. Seeing that an essential predictor of psychological adjustment is resilience, the current study aims to assess the role…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
Malaysia aspires to become a regional and international hub of higher education through an international student mobility initiative. Existing scholarly work on international students is skewed towards understanding the general challenges faced by international students, but limited work has been conducted in exploring the impact of severe…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Graduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Students
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Shafaei, Azadeh; Nejati, Mehran; Abd Razak, Nordin – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
This study was carried out to investigate the discrepancies that international students' geographical region could create on the relationships of adjustment attitude, attachment attitude, and intention after graduation with psychological and sociocultural adaptations. As such, multi-group analysis was performed using partial least squares…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, State Universities, Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment
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Ahrari, Seyedali; Krauss, Steven Eric; Suandi, Turiman; Abdullah, Haslinda; Sahimi, Aishah Hamizah Abdullah; Olutokunbo, Adekalu Samuel; Dahalan, Dzuhailmi – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Despite the ongoing globalisation of higher education, few studies have attempted to understand international students' adjustment experiences in non-Western institutions of higher learning. This study employed in depth, semi-structured interviews to explore the adjustment experiences of 10 international postgraduate students in Malaysia. Three…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Graduate Students, Social Bias, Second Language Learning
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Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the pull factors that influenced international students' choice of country and institution for their Master's education. Design/Methodology/ Approach: This qualitative study relied upon focus group interviews with 70 international students registered in taught Master programmes at a higher…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Decision Making, Qualitative Research, Graduate Students
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Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Leong, Yin-Ching; Zhang, Chen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
As human capital came to the fore in the discourse on economic growth, so too has the concepts of employment prospects and employability attributes as students transit to the labor market. This paper examines three issues in this transition in the context of Malaysia. These are, first, how important is employment prospects a consideration when…
Descriptors: Employment, Employers, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Alireza, Shakarami; Abdullah, Mardziha H. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
Language learning strategies are used with the explicit goal of helping learners improve their knowledge and understanding of a target language. They are the conscious thoughts and behaviors used by students to facilitate language learning tasks and to personalize language learning process. Learning styles on the other hand, are "general…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Political Science, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning
Patricia Chow; Rajika Bhandari – Institute of International Education, 2011
"Open Doors" is a comprehensive information resource on the 723,277 international students in the United States in 2010/11 and on the 270,604 U.S. students who studied abroad for academic credit in 2009/10. The Institute of International Education (IIE), one of the largest and most experienced higher education exchange agencies in the…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)