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Zhang, Donghui – Frontiers of Education in China, 2018
With the rapid expansion of Confucius Institutes globally, the Hanban launched a Volunteer Chinese Teachers (VCT) Program with the purpose of selecting a large number of college graduates and graduate students from Chinese universities to fill vacancies for overseas Chinese teachers. In spite of the multitude of students participating in the…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, College Graduates
Sysko, Nataliia – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The article analyzes foreign experience in continuing professional development of teachers. It has been found that the system of continuing professional development of teachers in foreign countries has its own conceptual peculiarities determined by relevant contextual factors. It has been specified that all systems are characterized by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
European Commission, 2023
This is an age of profound socio-economic and geopolitical change. While the world is increasingly interconnected it is also threatened by climate change and demographic transformation. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is aggravating the disruption caused by these seismic societal shifts. Meeting the challenges of a changing world requires new skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Social Problems, War
Erling, Elizabeth J.; Chowdhury, Qumrul Hasan; Solly, Mike; Seargeant, Philip – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Migration has become a vital element of the Bangladeshi economy, which has led to an increasing focus on providing Bangladeshis with the skills needed on the international labour market. English is often cited as one of these skills, and previous research has shown that a primary reason why Bangladeshis wish to learn English is due to its…
Descriptors: Migration, Labor Market, Overseas Employment, English (Second Language)
Zoi Simopoulou; Alette Willis; Lorena Georgiadou – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Opportunities for working, volunteering, and studying abroad have become popular in higher education as vehicles for the development of cultural awareness and global citizenship. However, such experiences on their own do not guarantee the development of such attributes. What appears to be essential to maximizing the benefits of educational…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
Huang, Futao – Higher Education Forum, 2017
The purpose of this study is to describe an overview of changes to inbound international faculty members to Dutch higher education institutions, their main characteristics, and forces or agents of change which occurred in them, and the implications for Japanese higher education. The analysis and discussion are based primarily on official…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change
Kraus, Harald; Burford, James – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2020
Universities around the world increasingly use online videos to recruit both domestic and international students. However, little is currently known about how such videos are used to market international programmes in the Global South. We analysed a sample of 19 videos that promote international programmes at Thai universities. After transcribing…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Marketing, Video Technology, Web Sites
Treve, Mark – English Language Teaching, 2020
The present study explores teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Asia, their attitudes toward teaching English, the roles of teaching the English language, motivations, benefits, implications, and the reason they are highly recognized in non-English speaking countries. The researcher applied the qualitative method through…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
Kim, Terri – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Academic mobility has existed since ancient times. Recently, however, academic mobility--the crossing of international borders by academics who then work "overseas"--has increased. Academics and the careers of academics have been affected by governments and institutions that have an interest in coordinating and accelerating knowledge…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Interviews, College Faculty
Gessler, Michael – Vocations and Learning, 2017
The apprenticeship system in Germany is carried out both by companies and vocational schools (the Dual System). The question of whether the German Dual System is transferable is currently being asked in vocational education and training research. The analysis of current transfer discourses alludes to a research desideratum: the actual approaches…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Vocational Education
Kubota, Ryuko; Takeda, Yuya – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Foreign language education primarily aims to cultivate learners' competence to communicate in an additional language. However, the meaning of communication competence is not entirely transparent, especially given the current neoliberal valorization of communication in the knowledge economy. The meaning of communication can be scrutinized in two…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ni, Liangtao – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this study the experiences of Chinese higher education (HE) faculty members at American universities were analyzed to determine whether their experiences were consistent with China's HE reform policy for faculty development, part of China's world-class university reform. Berry's acculturation theory and China's HE reform directives provided the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Educational Change
Torres-Casierra, Liana Mercedes – HOW, 2021
This article presents the preliminary results of an enquiry on the work experience of Colombian language teachers who have entered the workforce in foreign countries. The study aims at unveiling aspects of the personal and professional experience of those graduates that might be relevant for pre-service teachers in local degree programs ahead of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dwyer, Laura Paglis – Management Teaching Review, 2018
Instructors teaching undergraduate survey courses in management are faced with a dilemma: How to balance the wide scope of such a course with the desire to cover each topic in sufficient depth to make the material meaningful and useful. The specific subject area in focus here is international differences in work-related values. This exercise…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Management Development, College Faculty, Cultural Differences
Muthanna, Abdulghani; Sang, Guoyuan – London Review of Education, 2018
Brain drain is a context-based issue and has direct impact on the quality of higher education for institutions where a significant number of instructors migrate to take up work in other countries. This is a critical problem in Yemen where higher teacher education programmes still lack teachers. Interpretive analysis of in-depth interviews with two…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Labor Turnover