Foreign students frequently encounter problems adjusting to new social environments while attending institutions of higher education. The purpose of this study was to describe the level of social difficulty experienced by foreign students from different regions of the world while studying in the United States. The target population for this study…

In order to assess the services of the International Students Program (ISP), the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita (California) surveyed its international student population. The survey instrument included Likert-scale items as well as open-ended questions. Questionnaires were mailed to the homes of 130 ISP students, and 37 surveys were…

This paper discusses the position of Canada with regard to international education, drawing on the findings of a prior study intended to foster development of an agenda for promoting a more strategic national approach to the internationalization of Canadian education. International education, for the purposes of this discussion, includes extending…

Because the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) recognizes the importance of international students to Canada and its institutions of higher education, it makes some recommendations to enhance policy related to international students and to facilitate the recruitment of international students to Canadian educational…

Interest among foreign students to attend universities in countries other than their own has been high for many decades. Until recently the emphasis has been on students from European cultures. This Eurocentrism focus in the United States affects non-European students. They find little familiarity and sometimes little acceptance of their cultures,…

This paper presents a case study of an episode in a conversation between a native English speaker (the female director of an English language school) and a non-native English speaker (a student apparently with minimal language skills) in which the native speaker is engaged in an extended telling of seemingly crucial information. The troublesome…

Intended for use by foreign students at the Rutgers University Libraries (New Jersey), this guide provides definitions of the following common library terms: abstract, barcode, bibliography, Boolean searching, call number, CD-ROMs, check out, circulation desk, citation, database, due date, electronic journals, electronic workstations, government…

This paper is based on an ethnographic study that examined the study abroad experiences of 20 male Japanese students in Vancouver (Canada) from a post-colonial perspective. This perspective allows the researcher to view the Japanese students studying in the West as deeply embedded in a transnational context where global and national ideologies and…

Developing countries have accused developed countries of deliberately draining other countries of professionals. (Editor)

Discusses the theory that in Canada, Americans are dominating the job market and taking jobs from Canadian Ph.d's. (Author)

Discusses a current reassessment of medical training that may lead to the first major overhaul in half a century of the system for evaluating, licensing, and certifying doctors in specialities. Granting of an unrestricted license will probably be moved from the internship period to the end of specialist training. (JR)

Based on the results of a questionnaire, it appears that a common battery of tests and a common battery of evaluation procedures can be identified for all colleges responding to questions on admission criteria. (BY)

Recounts the background and results of different educational programs that either sent American students or professors abroad and/or brought host-country professors and students to the U.S. (MF)