ERIC Number: ED322838
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Publication Date: 1989-Dec
Pages: 303
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Foreign Students and Internationalization of Higher Education. Proceedings of OECD/Japan Seminar on Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign Students (Hiroshima, Japan, November 8-10, 1988).
Ebuchi, Kazuhiro, Ed.
This volume reports on a seminar structured around three themes: institutional policies toward the flow of foreign students in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); specific measures and programs for foreign students; and social and cultural adjustment by foreign students. The volume contains seminar papers, rapporteurs' reports, and summaries of discussions. The following papers are included: "Policy Trends and Issues Regarding Foreign Students in Japan" (Shigeto Kawano); "Foreign Students: A Leading Edge for Change" (OECD/CERI Secretariat); "Foreign Students and Internationalization of the University: A View from Japanese Perspective" (Kazuhiro Ebuchi); "International Students in Higher Education: Institutional Policy Issues" (Seth Spaulding); "Measures and Impacts of Foreign Student Participation in the United States Higher Education: Policy, Practice and Research Perspectives" (Douglas Windham and Alan Wagner); "Specific Measures and Programmes for Foreign Students: Some Lessons from British Experience" (Maureen Woodhall); "Specific Measures and Programmes for Foreign Students: A View from the Sending Country" (Klaus Schnitzer); "Institutional Responses to Socio-Cultural Adjustment: Problems of Foreign Students in Japan" (Asako Uehara and Joe Hicks); "Social and Cultural Adjustment of Foreign Students: Experience from Western Europe" (Hans Schutze); "Social and Cultural Adjustment by Foreign Students: The Australian Experience" (Brigid Ballard); "Foreign Student Adjustment: Issues and Perspectives" (Philip Altbach); "Institutional Policies and Measures for Foreign Students in Selected OECD Countries: Summary of Country Reports" (OECD/CERI Secretariat). Appendices contain a scope and issues paper prepared for the seminar by the OECD/CERI Secretariat and data on foreign student enrollment in selected OCED member countries. (JDD)
Descriptors: College Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Higher Education, International Education, School Policy, Social Adjustment, Student Adjustment
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Higashisenda-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan 730.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings; Books
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. for Higher Education.
Identifiers - Location: Australia; Japan; United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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