Abstract
This chapter outlines some key challenges that Chinese students face while studying in UK higher education and the nature of their learning and personal growth in intercultural contexts. The empirical work is based upon a series of research projects that the author has led over the past five years (2004–09), including a two-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research project on the experiences of international undergraduate students at British universities (Gu et al., 2010) and a British Academy-funded two-year research project which investigated how, why and to what extent overseas educational experiences may (or may not) contribute to the personal, professional and career development of Chinese students who return to work in China (Gu et al., 2009).KeywordsInternational StudentChinese StudentIntercultural RelationFriendship PatternGlobal High EducationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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