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Maximiliane Marschall; Susanne Falk; Christina Klug – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite the substantial efforts made by higher education institutions to reduce dropout rates, a considerable proportion of students still discontinues their initial study program. In view of this situation, the present study aims to investigate whether participation in first-year courses for personal and academic support goes along with a…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Freshmen, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
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Stone, Nicholas – Human Rights Education Review, 2020
The German integration programme teaches language and knowledge about Germany to newcomers and those with migration backgrounds. This article analyses the programme and course content from a human rights education (HRE) perspective to tease out some of the inherent contradiction between teaching 'German values', purported to be one of the…
Descriptors: Orientation, Civil Rights, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Binder, Nadine; Schreier, Margrit; Kühnen, Ulrich; Kedzior, Karina Karolina – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Increasing internationalization of higher education raises the question of how well institutions prepare their students to integrate into and benefit from cultural diversity on any university campus. The aim of this study was to assess an intercultural peer-to-peer training at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, that aims to facilitate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Peer Teaching