International student

Teaching, one of the most intense, emotionally demeaning, and downright time taking careers anyone can undertake. Yet, every year college students enter into education programs seeking out this occupation. However, knowledge about the subject is not enough, being a teacher is not the same as a presenter; meaning, those in the education profession must have a degree of people skills and class management skills. This is not to say however that aspiring educators need to be strict and stern when it…

A lot of students from foreign countries entering the United States to receive further education, and the number will continue to rise. Research shows that over a million students and scholars participated in higher education in foreign countries. The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia attract 45% of the world 's international students. (Ward 2009) Being away from home, it is obviously a challenge for international students to study in a country outside of their home country because…

Exploration of Topic. The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence,…

address is the visa system used by international students and their work privileges. Trump wants to reform the process of giving out green cards, he wants to put a hold on that process so that employers will hire domestically first. Also he wants to modify the H-1B visa so its requirements line up with the idea of ending warfare abuse, terminate…

has done a remarkable job. Student mobility, as one of the components of the internationalization process, places the United States prevails as the top destination for international students, especially from East Asian students. Each year, the number of students from East Asian countries keeps rising (Institute of International Education, 2015), for this reason, I decided to conduct a qualitative research study to understand the reasons that motivate international students from East Asia to…

record high of 22,000 students for the fall, 2014 (The News & Observer, 2014). Furthermore, a significant number of classes are taught online, and as of last year, more than 3,300 students were in online programs; a number that has doubled within five years (The News & Observer, 2014). According to Bryan Ryan, the Senior Vice President of Curriculum Education Services, states that “while half of the students are interested in the technical programs, many of the other students are interested in…

faced by international students when choosing to attend their higher education in the United States or other foreign countries. Moreover, besides the obvious difficulties in being dislocated from family and friends, them exist subtle, non-obvious hardships that can affect an international student in a negative manner. These faint signals came to my attention during our large group meeting, which involved an international student panel. The greatest aspect affecting international students, from…

with international students, the more I noticed familiar refrains that both educated me and reminded me about my own U.S. and academic culture” (Nathan 67). An anthropologist, Rebekah Nathan went undercover – she goes back to school as a freshman at her own university to see the campus through student eyes. This decision was made as she wanted to analyze and examine the campus life fairly instead of having the often professor-student research studies. By interviewing international students, she…

main factor that causes stress among international students. Firstly, international students have less communication with one another and often cause them to become lonely. Communication is paramount in our lives, we cannot live without it. Recently, international students experience a lack of socialisation. According to (James et al. 2010), international students have less social interaction with locals resulting in a lack of confidence (Lyons, 2011). If students lack confidence, it may…

Expectations vs Reality: The dilemma of international students-Hemant shares his story. By Mercy Addo and Hemant Odhrani 22 September, 2017 There is a saying that the eminence of your expectations defines the quality of your actions. It has been concluded that the secret to a good self-esteem is lowering your expectations in everything and making it achievable. To Hemant Odhrani, the thought of negative expectations is unavoidable when you are an international student. “…when I read my…