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Leveraging Education Abroad for Student Career Development & Employability
Category: Education Abroad & Global Workforce Development
Helping Academic Dreams Come True in Vietnam: A Little Goes a Long Way
Originally posted on An International Educator in Vietnam:
Fact #1: In Vietnam, about one million students finish secondary school (i.e., junior high school) every year but public high schools can only accommodate 80% of that number. Fact #2: An estimated 200,000 students who failed one single…
Of Emigration, Brain Drain & Brain Gain: Some Reflections
Originally posted on An International Educator in Vietnam:
Over the years, I’ve known and helped many young Vietnamese who have studied overseas. Some I knew in passing; others became friends. Quite a few made the decision to remain overseas either in the country in…
Studying Abroad: The Who, the Why, and the Why Not
From the blog, “Clearing Customs,”: Studying Abroad: The Who, the Why, and the Why Not. A good summary of recent data published by IIE. Professionals know the data but I liked the presentation in a blog space I had not seen before. Seems Mom has… Continue Reading “Studying Abroad: The Who, the Why, and the Why Not”
Wonderful Musical Tribute to Mandela
Do watch this video of a choir surprising shoppers: http://za.news.yahoo.com/watch–the-most-touching-mandela-tribute-came-from-the-least-expected-place-070947330.html
Opening the Door Wider is Not Enough
As an alumnus of World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute , I was pleased to read this story in the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/11/12/opening-doors-international-education/0HWb8zqtFuihyqlWupOp3K/story.html. A lot of the data the authors [senior administrators at SIT] cite will be familiar to professionals, although appearing in a mainstream media… Continue Reading “Opening the Door Wider is Not Enough”
Peace Corps vs. VISTA
Only folks of a certain age will know that VISTA stands for: Volunteers in Service to America. Service in poor communities in the U.S., on reservations, in Appalachian towns, in rural Alaskan villages — was never as popular or sexy as service overseas. Now… Continue Reading “Peace Corps vs. VISTA”
UC-Berkeley “augments” its study abroad model
This is an interesting news item from the campus paper of record: http://www.dailycal.org/2013/11/08/uc-berkeley-augment-study-abroad-model/ “Most of our graduates are going to be operating in a world in which they will have to interrelate with people who are not working in the United States,” Breslauer [Executive Vice… Continue Reading “UC-Berkeley “augments” its study abroad model”
October 2013 – New Resources
Originally posted on Resources for Campus Internationalization:
We hope that the fall semester has been progressing nicely at your institutions. As we approach International Education Week in mid-November, we invite you to utilize our resources to think about and advance your institution’s internationalization strategy.…
How Studying Abroad Boosts Employability of Students with Disabilities
MIUSA, http://www.miusa.org, has played an important and singular role in widening awareness of and supporting opportunity for those with disabilities to participate in education abroad programs. Guest Post by Michele Scheib Mobility International USA One of the disability community’s top priorities is how to improve… Continue Reading “How Studying Abroad Boosts Employability of Students with Disabilities”
The Value of “Paper-based” Communication
This post does not neatly fit into any of my usual categories, but, I wanted to share it just the same. The idea comes from an op-ed (Sunday, Aug. 18) titled, “Dear Emma,” in the NY Times. Written by an airline pilot who is… Continue Reading “The Value of “Paper-based” Communication”
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