Since 2015 many postgraduate dance students from the Beijing Dance Academy China, have completed a one-year Masters in Community Dance at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. This paper reflects on eight student's experience of their year of international study. Data gathered through semi structured interviews were examined through the…

This paper contributes to the theoretical debate over a global upsurge in higher education (HE) regionalisms which pursue different region-building processes and create policy spaces beyond national boundaries. Focusing on the Nordic countries, the paper studies parallel processes of intra-Nordic and European HE and research cooperation. Although…

This paper explores the international learning experiences of Indonesian teachers participating in a Finnish master's degree programme as an identity reconstruction process. We study the participants' experiences based on dialogical identity construction to explore the positioning and repositioning occurring during an international learning…

This chapter engages with the regimes that assemble the European Union's flagship education and training program "Erasmus Mundus." The analysis focuses on "Europe," "dialogue and understanding," and "third" as regimes of global educational policies and technologies of transnational governance. The chapter is…

Online distance-learning (ODL) programmes in higher education enable students to remain in their domicile country to study with institutions based in other countries. ODL students can find themselves studying with others from many different countries, adding greater heterogeneity of personal, environmental and cultural perspectives compared with…

Adult global learners (AGLs), particularly those with limited knowledge or understanding of American culture, often have a difficult time transitioning and adjusting to academic life in the US. As a result, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) that wish to increase their level of AGLs must take proactive steps to help those students adjust and…

The research provides a selective report on the learning experiences covering a whole year of study for a double-degree Master's programme by a cohort of early-career Indonesians. They were undertaking the second half of the programme at The University of Adelaide in South Australia, and for all 18 students it was their first taste of learning in…

In 2014, the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University introduced its first international programme, the MA PPE, which served as a test case within the overall internationalisation strategy. Despite the challenges detailed in this paper the overall implementation deemed successful. The university derived many valuable…

A Boise State University (Idaho) faculty member teaching in a new master's program in business administration in a Vietnamese university chronicles his two-week stay and his experiences with the students and his work. A postscript tells briefly of the students' stay in Idaho for final coursework and an internship. (MSE)

To be responsible, educational administrator training programs must take the context of practice into account in program design and execution. Adaptation in content, instructional processes, and support systems are required. The University of New Mexico's Spanish Language Master's Program, which has graduated 127 students, provides a model for…

The integration of foreign language education and international exchange into a French graduate program in business administration is discussed. The 3-year program results in the equivalent of a master's degree in management. The historical, educational, cultural, and socio-political factors in development of the program are reviewed, and key…

Information is presented on selecting and applying to graduate management programs, the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree, costs and financial aid, and concerns pertaining to minorities, women, and foreign students. Additionally, key facts about specific graduate schools of management, a description of the Graduate Management…