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Carl Evans; Nigel Jackson – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
Charities are facing a crisis in recruiting board trustees. Additionally, boards have been criticised for lacking diversity and being unrepresentative of society. The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution to the problem of trustee recruitment, by considering university business students as trustees. Through an analysis of advertised…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Trusts (Financial), Trustees
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Paul Joseph-Richard; Kieran M. Conroy – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Self-initiated international placements by students have been largely ignored in the literature on outward mobility in higher education. The support given to self-initiated international placement students, if any, has received even less attention. This study aims to address this lacuna. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Students, Student Placement, Student Mobility
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Johanna Thomas-Maude; Sharon McLennan; Vicky Walters – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Volunteers, Tourism, Language Teachers