Eighteen Malaysian physicians evaluate their postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, Australia and the US in terms of its relevance to Malaysian health needs, the extent to which it is actually used, and its importance to them in teaching medical students in Malaysia. (WM)

A study of 2,408 student families reveals that in 195 families (8.1 percent) both spouses have lived most of their lives outside of the United States. (Author)

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A discussion of the readaptation process of 70 physicians who returned to Peru to practice medicine after completing postgraduate training in the U.S. (1965-1975) covers the determinants of the decision to return; academic, familial, and adaptational problems; and the physicians' impact on medical education and health care services in Peru. (NQA)

Home economics, with its ecological view of the family, expanded research competencies, and extension networks, has the interest, knowledge, and experience to capitalize on the potential to educate new immigrant, refugee, and international student families. (SK)

In 1982 almost half of all American doctoral degrees in engineering went to foreign students. The United States role in educating these students and several serious difficulties facing the American engineering education enterprise as it relates to foreign students are discussed. The need for national policy in this area is addressed. (JN)

The Nigerian Manpower Project, which placed large numbers of Nigerian students in American community colleges, did not alter the delivery of subject matter at one Illinois college. But difficulties arose from the Nigerian students' culturally-induced reliance on teachers as knowledge authorities, versus the faculty preference for independent…

Assessed the level of social alienation among foreign students in the United States. Foreign students (N=53) completed the social alienation subscale of the Deans Alienation Scale. Results indicated that social alienation among these students deviates significantly from normal expectation. (Author/RC)

Underscores community colleges' responsibility for international/general education. Assesses the impact of foreign student enrollments, foreign tourists, and global society. Reviews Brevard Community College's international/intercultural education programs. Stresses the relationships of transcultural education with general education and of faculty…

Describes an advanced English-as-a-second-language program that features debate as a means of preparing foreign college students to compete with English-speaking students. (FL)

Concludes that, by using an easily constructed Cloze test based on the reading material in a college literature class for foreign students, a teacher can make fairly accurate predictions at the beginning of the semester about students' probability of success in the course. (GT)

This article discusses the controversy between advocates of the discrete-point test and the integrative test as measures of the language proficiency of students of English as a second language. (CFM)