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Majee, Upenyu S. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation recognizes that the emergence of post-apartheid South Africa as the most popular study destination in Africa follows racial segregation, regional destabilization, and international isolation during apartheid. Today, the country's public higher education institutions face intensifying pressures to respond simultaneously to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries
Jiang, Yuan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As we work and study in our increasingly globalized society, there is a growing trend of Chinese piano students choosing to pursue their higher education in the United States. Elite music institutions in America are also seeking and recruiting a large number of Chinese pianists. This trend raises questions regarding the similarities and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Higher Education, Reputation
Jain, Romi – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Internationalization of higher education is a major characteristic of China's higher education policy. Accordingly, the Chinese government is fervently encouraging the spread of Chinese language and culture through Confucius Institutes, student exchange programs, recruitment of international students, and international collaborations. South Asia…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
Friedman, Jonathan Z. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The past two decades have seen the idea of internationalization move into the mainstream of higher education policy and practice, on a global scale. In countries like the US and UK however, higher education is widely perceived as a hierarchical field, where high- and low-status universities are differentiated from one another: serving different…
Descriptors: Universities, Social Status, International Education, Foreign Countries
Miller, Randy Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research describes what motivates Vietnamese students to come to the U.S. to study for a degree, what outcomes they expect, and what they experience academically and culturally while studying in the U.S. Currently the surge of international students from Vietnam has reached an all time high of 13,112 students to the U.S. This moves the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Choi, Jin Ho – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Nine universities in the United States with the greatest number of international students and having an accredited music program through the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) were selected. Survey research methodologies were used to identify the status of the international music students from East Asia in U.S. higher education…
Descriptors: Expertise, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Music Education