The advantages and disadvantages of study abroad for students from developing nations are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the need for cooperation between educational institutions, rather than isolated efforts of individuals, to ensure quality and continuity in technical assistance programs. (RW)

Discusses technology transfer through the channel of international students and four types of transfer (knowledge, expertise, invention, and equipment). Raises questions about the appropriateness of what is taught to foreign students and its relevance to their home countries. (SK)

E-mail surveys of business faculty and focus groups with international students identified student behaviors that undermine academic performance, such as low participation and interacting only with international students. Strategies to facilitate student adjustment include initial meetings, small groups, and an atmosphere open to differences. (SK)

Discusses how, for students seeking to study in the United States from countries around the world, the delays caused by intensified security checks are calling attention to a process that many say was already deeply flawed. (EV)

Examines the oral discourse of four university teaching contexts (lectures, laboratories, writing classes, and writing conferences) for the incidence of exchange patterns. Defines exchange patterns and explores previous research on three-part exchanges. Presents new research on two-part exchanges. Focuses on how non-native speakers of English…

Examined how peers and international student recruitment agencies (agents) influence Thai students' choices of international education and to what degree. Found that agents exert a stronger influence than peers, and that Thai students from different levels of education perceived the influence of peers and agents in a different way. (EV)

This qualitative study was designed to gather information about U.S. host students' experiences in a U.S.-international peer program and about how the program influenced their cross-cultural awareness. Researchers of this study noticed host students' unconscious need for guidance to become interculturally competent and heard their suggestions to…

Conducted prior to September 11, 2001, this qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of seven women who veiled on a large college campus in the Midwest. With national origins ranging from Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, to the United States, some participants reevaluated and subsequently unveiled due to their college experiences.…

Compared personal and social problems and ambitions of Italian, Spanish, and Greek adolescents living in Germany with those of German adolescents. Found that family and religion played more important role for foreign adolescents than for Germans. While parents appeared to have same importance for all adolescents, emotional relations with siblings…

Compared incoming international college students (N=215) to United States students (N=1,000) on academic and career needs. Found international students expressed greater academic and career needs than did American students and the rank-ordering of relative importance of these needs was different between the two groups. (Author/ABL)

Finds that students who are required to take a course taught by foreign teaching assistants (TAs) complain more about their TAs' language skills than those taking the course as an elective, but finds no such difference among students taught by "domestic" TAs. Discusses possible educational policies regarding the hiring and employment of foreign…

Explored connotative meanings of alcohol, cocaine, hashish, and marijuana among 29 Indonesian and U.S. graduate students. Found significant differences between groups on six adjective pairs for alcohol, four for marijuana, and three each for hashish and cocaine. Groups also differed in identification of substances as strong/weak,…

Efforts to describe the multicultural, multilingual, and multinational population in international schools can be confusing, partly because the traditional terms used to describe them are inadequate. This article explores the complex interaction of maternal language, instructional language, environmental language, and foreign language in…

National data on foreign student enrollment lists the 80 2- and 4-year colleges and universities with the largest foreign student enrollments, the number of foreign students in each state, distribution of students in 1989-90 and 1990-91 by field of study (number and percentage), and countries of origin (ranked, with total student numbers). (MSE)

Discusses the educational problems common to the 7,080 foreigners enrolled in Polish colleges/universities in technical education (45 percent), medical education (30 percent), and unspecified university courses (15 percent). Problems include low attainment; inadequate preparation; poor social relations between teachers, community, and foreign…