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Motivations of Indian Students to Pursue a STEM Master's Program Abroad: Insights from a Qualitative Study
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Sanjay Krishnapratap Pawar; Ruby S. Chanda – Cogent Education, 2024
An evaluation of extant research reveals a significant blind spot around investigating the enrolment decision-making of Indian international students in the STEM fields. This study qualitatively explores the motivations of Indian international students to pursue a STEM Master's program in an industrialised country. To elicit pertinent information,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, STEM Education, Student Motivation
Pull Factors in Choosing a Higher Education Study Abroad Destination after the Massive Global Immobility: A Re-Examination from Chinese Perspectives
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Guan, Lihang; Mok, Ka Ho Joshua; Yu, Baohua – Cogent Education, 2023
Chinese international students compose the largest group of full-tuition-paying students globally and are important to hosting destinations both culturally and financially. However, the obstructed international mobility caused by COVID-19 has changed their international applications. As the world gradually resumes its previous mobility level, it…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Marketing
'If the Students Don't Come, or if They Don't Finish, We Don't Get the Money.' Principals, Immigration, and the Organisational Logic of School Choice in Sweden
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Voyer, Andrea – Ethnography and Education, 2019
School choice is associated with increased educational inequality and across-school segregation. This article documents the organisational practices and logics affecting school segregation and inequality. Through an institutional ethnographic study of principals' responses to school choice within the context of immigration in Malmö, Sweden, I find…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Principals, Equal Education
Factors Influencing ESL Students' Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States
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Blanco, Katie; Tanner, Mark W.; Hartshorn, K. James; Eggington, William G. – TESOL Journal, 2020
Intensive English programs (IEPs) help speakers of other languages gain necessary language, cultural, and educational skills to succeed in an English-speaking environment (Hamrick, 2012; Toner, 2017). Whereas previous research investigated factors influencing student choice of IEPs in the southeastern United States (Williams, 1994) and in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Course Selection (Students), Student Attitudes
Perceptions of International Student Mobility: A Qualitative Case Study
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Javed, Bushra; Zainab, Bibi; Zakai, Samia Nadeem; Malik, Shahzeb – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2019
International Student Mobility (ISM) is progressively becoming a significant aspect of the higher education scenario. The universal higher education milieu has undergone a tremendous change due to ISM as the number of students going abroad for higher education is growing incessantly with every passing year. Pakistan is a developing country that…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
The Factors Shaping Young Immigrant Students STEM Achievement Cross-Nationally: Unpacking the Immigrant Educational Paradox
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Rejjal, Noor A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study presents a conceptual and evidentiary study pertaining to the micro and macro level factors influencing the achievement gap among migrant children from a cross-national standpoint. First, this study provides the most systematic investigation of the immigrant educational paradox theory, which asserts that on average, immigrants'…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap