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July, 2005
| International Education Report - July 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Cultural Competency through Pure Pop Kate Berardo is a young woman who has found a new way to offer people a richer encounter with other cultures– by locating the places in themselves where they are already linked to those other cultures. She thinks this can be done for most people through the vehicle of popular culture. |
| How to Spot a Problem: Foreign Students and Mental Health Life in these United States can be difficult enough for native born citizens. Then what about foreign students, many of whom come here with very little idea how to negotiate the byways of American life? It’s especially tough if they are dealing with mental health problems in the process. |
| The Top Ten Reasons Why International Students Fail One thing that people don’t talk about much in regard to international students is failure. In the effort to promote international study in the United States, and to recruit international students from overseas, the challenges that these students can encounter are not always made explicit. |
| World Conference Calls for “Open Educational Resources” In the world of international education, there is more than one way for students to gather the fruits of worldwide education. More and more the best teachers are developing distance courses to be taught over the internet. The reach of this technology is world wide, and carries the hope of bringing education to the poorest and most remote parts of the globe. Here in the U.S., young people who cannot afford to travel are able to sample the pedagogy of Oxford, Paris and Moscow. The following story is an update from the United Nations organization charged with advancing the progress of international distance education. |
| New Online Resource Tracks Trends in Global Student Mobility The New York-based Institute of International Education (IIE)recently launched a new online resource to track enrollment data on international students in leading host countries. Recent surveys of foreign student applications have documented declining numbers coming to the U.S. from abroad, while the numbers of students heading to other host countries are dramatically expanding. |
| Books Study Abroad: Travel and Vacation in College CBIE International Educator's Toolbox |
| International News CHINA —Chinese students’ enthusiasm for study abroad in English-language countries might be slowing. “More and more Chinese students seem to be losing interest in overseas study, as the number of applicants to study in Britain, the United States, and Australia have all dropped to their historically lowest point," an unnamed official in the British Embassy in China told China Daily in early June. |
