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The Shifting Landscape of International Higher Education: Why Chinese Returnees with Overseas Degrees Come Back for Doctoral Studies?
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Kejin Zhu; Fangyao Zhang – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
The post-pandemic era might witness a shifting landscape of international higher education, partially reflected by a restructuring of international student mobility (ISM) patterns. Notably, there is a nascent trend of Chinese returnees with degrees from Anglo-American universities pursuing doctoral studies at home. Previous research concentrates…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Study Abroad, Doctoral Programs, Career Development
"It's Like Very White Winged": Students' Perceptions of the Image and Reality of Internationalisation in UK Higher Education
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Kemiche, Zahra; Beighton, Christian – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
Following a damning report into racism in United Kingdom Higher Education (EHRC, 2019), this paper discusses students' experiences of racism in HE. Focusing on the connections between lived experience and wider goals and trends in the Internationalisation of the university sector, we discuss accounts of racist practices on campus through the…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Higher Education, Stranger Reactions, Student Attitudes
Towards a Cosmopolitan African University
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
In this article I offer a defence of cosmopolitanism as an enabling condition for university education in Africa. Recent xenophobic outbursts in South Africa suggests that the enactment of defensible virtues in societies remain distant from the practices of many people. My contention is that university education ought to take seriously the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Death, Criticism, Educational Change