Experience Of Foreign Students Research Articles

The shifting landscape of international higher education: Why Chinese returnees with overseas degrees come back for doctoral studies?

ABSTRACT The post-pandemic era might witness a shifting landscape of international higher education, partially reflected by a restructuring of international student mobility (ISM) patterns. Notably, there is a nascent trend of Chinese returnees with degrees from Anglo-American universities pursuing doctoral studies at home. Previous research concentrates on the motivations of Chinese students learning abroad and the experiences of foreign students in China; understanding of the ‘reverse’ mobility of Chinese returnees is thin. This empirical study unveils the underlying incentives behind Chinese students’ decision to return for doctoral degrees through an analytical framework exploring asymmetrical power relationships among ISM actors. 23 doctoral candidates/graduates from eight Chinese universities participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings reveal a narrowed gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) doctoral education between Chinese and Anglophone universities. The promising industries and life prospects at China’s megacities impel Chinese overseas students to return earlier for career paths. Meanwhile, they have suffered from multiple risks abroad including outsider identity, xenophobia, and safety concerns, while enjoying privileges for doctoral enrollment at home. As repositioning its peripheral status, China still has a lot to improve in the institutionalization of the application-assessment doctoral admission system, internationalization of the doctoral curriculum, and quality assurance of pedagogical practices.

Features of building communication with international students using modern online media

This article explores the influence of online media on the process of adaptation of foreign students in educational institutions. The study was carried out in relation to the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and some other universities of the Russian Federation that actively use international educational and academic exchange. The authors analyze the main barriers students face when transitioning to a new learning environment, such as cultural, linguistic and academic differences. The authors of the article discuss the role of online media in overcoming these barriers, emphasizing their importance in the process of exchanging information, developing communication skills in a foreign language, and creating trusting relationships. The contribution of online media to the integration of different cultures and traditions is considered, which contributes to the formation of cultural understanding, tolerance and respect for the diversity of worldviews in the educational environment. An analysis is made of how students use online resources to obtain additional information, develop relevant skills and deepen their knowledge, as well as an analysis of existing research on the topic of adaptation of foreign students and the role of online media in education. In addition, the article covers the following subtopics. Features of collecting data on the experience of foreign students and their use of online media. Conducting interviews with foreign students, teachers, and university administrations to obtain high-quality information about adaptation problems and the role of perception of Internet resources and their impact on the adaptation process. The novelty of this study lies in the following characteristics of the work performed. Focuses were made on a specific university or region. The specifics of different groups of students were taken into account. The analysis was carried out taking into account how online media is used by students from different countries, with different language levels, different specialties, etc. The influence of specific types of online media was studied: for example, social networks, educational platforms, chatbots, specialized applications for international students. The analysis of the influence of online media was explicit on various aspects of adaptation through such sections as academic performance, psychological well-being, social integration, cultural adaptation and others. The project ends with a presentation of recommendations developed by the authors of the article on the use of online media to increase the effectiveness of adaptation of foreign students in other countries or universities around the world.

The International Students’ Experiences of Their Intercultural Communication Competence in Indonesia

The study examined how, in the age of globalization, education had advanced to a new level where the sharing of information had transcended national boundaries and examined intercultural communication competency based on the experiences of foreign students in Indonesia. But educational establishments weren't completely equipped to meet these contemporary demands. Even though intercultural communication research is not new, concerns about emerging cultural diversity have only recently gained a lot of attention. As a result, intercultural communication competency (ICC) in educational sectors is still quite low and needs further investigation. The study used a descriptive qualitative methodology in conjunction with a case and phenomenological investigation strategy. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data, along with research material. Through the analysis of the interactive multicultural building model—which is bolstered by the ideas of intercultural communication and the internationalization of higher education—the research findings demonstrate the persistence of disparities and opinions, as well as an evaluation of the three-perspective model that serves as the main focus of the study. It consists of three processes: behavioral (intercultural adeptness), cognitive (intercultural awareness), and emotional (intercultural sensitivity). In addition, there are other difficulties that need to be overcome.

Experiences of Foreign Students Regarding Turkish Cuisine Week as a Tool of Gastrodiplomacy

Günümüzde farklı toplumların birbirleriyle kaynaştırılması için çeşitli etkileşim kanalları kurulmaktadır. Bu girişimlerden biri olan gastrodiplomasi, toplumlar arasında yiyecek içecek kültürü alışverişine dayanmaktadır. Bu çalışma, yabancı öğrencilerin Türk mutfağı hakkındaki deneyimlerinin ve görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yabancı öğrencilerin deneyim ve görüşlerinin alınması için yarı yapılandırılmış anket formu aracılığıyla 2022 Ağustos ve Eylül ayları arasında 16 adet katılımcıdan veriler toplanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında elde edilen veriler betimsel analizle yorumlanmıştır. Bu çerçevede katılımcıların deneyimleri; Türk mutfak imajı, Türk mutfak deneyimi ve gastrodiplomasi açısından Türk mutfağı şeklinde üç temel kategoride tanımlanmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda, katılımcıların kısmen Türk Mutfağı hakkında ön bir algıya sahip olduğu, ikamet edilen ülkede Türk mutfağını deneyimleme fırsatı yakalayamadığı, Türkiye’ye geldikten sonra Türk mutfağı hakkında hem olumlu hem de yeni deneyimler kazandığı tespit edilmiştir.

Тьюторское сопровождение как инструмент адаптации иностранных студентов в российских и зарубежных вузах

This study analyzed the Russian and foreign experience of foreign students tutor support. It is shown that the increasing the number of international students around the world showed that universities faced the problems of creating a favorable environment and adaptation for them. Tutor support is common in foreign universities, but its growth is also observed in Russia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the Russian and foreign experience of tutoring foreign students. The tasks include: to show an understanding of tutoring in domestic and foreign scientific discourse; to analyze foreign and Russian experience on the example of leading universities; to show the positive possibilities of tutor support of foreign students in the process of their adaptation. This work uses such research methods as analysis of domestic and foreign literature, analysis of websites of foreign universities, comparative analysis of the practices of tutor support of foreign students in Russian and foreign universities. The author analyzes the websites of leading foreign and Russian universities. The most successful practices of tutor support of foreign students abroad and in Russia have been identified. The author also describes the experience of conducting a School of Volunteer Tutors to work with students from among foreign citizens of the Siberian Institute of Management — the branch of RANEPA over the past three years. Recommendations on the organization of tutor support of foreign students at the university and its effectiveness in the adaptation process are given.

Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea

North Korea is well-known for the intense social control it imposes upon its citizens and foreign visitors. This social control serves to circumscribe interactions between the two groups, limit the flow of information in either direction which may be detrimental to North Korea’s propaganda narrative, and maintain North Korea’s isolation from the outside world. Foreign students in Pyongyang are not exempt from such social control. However, they are granted opportunities allowing them to experience the country more comprehensively such as freedom of movement within the city and the chance to live alongside local students and interact extensively with their teachers. By probing the experiences of four former foreign students of Kim Il Sung University to examine what their social interactions reveal about North Korean social control, its mechanisms and limitations, this article attributes agency to people living under North Korea’s system and complicates dominant paradigms of totalitarianism.

ЛІНГВО-КУЛЬТУРНА АДАПТАЦІЯ ІНОЗЕМНИХ СТУДЕНТІВ В УНІВЕРСИТЕТІ КАЛІФОРНІЇ В ЛОС-АНДЖЕЛЕСІ (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, UCLA)

The article analyzes the linguistic and socio-cultural adaptation training of foreign students at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (USA). It was determined, that acculturation consists of two main components: linguistic and sociocultural. It has been reported that programs for improving the level of proficiency in a foreign (English) language for students from other countries should include a certain preparatory complex, the main components of which are reading, writing, listening, speaking, studying grammatical structures and increasing vocabulary, which will allow, firstly, to construct one’s own thoughts in the form of sentences during the interpersonal communication interaction, taking into account the grammatical rules. Secondly, it will form the ability to communicate on topics of an arbitrary type. The essence of elective courses aimed at the possibility of more branched communication using the idiomatic expressions, slang constructions, American pronunciation, etc. is considered. An important role in the foreign students’ language training played the involvement of consultants into the adaptation process who speak the native language of a foreign student, which allows to minimize the cross-cultural gap and more quickly establish the interpersonal contact, subsequently conducting bilingual classes, which also contribute to the development of preparatory activities «within society», when a foreign student gets the opportunity to perform the practical communication, using among other things, the native language, which ensures a faster acculturation process. Thus, after comparing the courses «Language Exchange» and «English Language Circle», it was revealed that the first is more effective in the development of communication skills due to the fact that it offers the communication with a native speaker, by the way, the conducting bilingual interaction. It was found that the socio-cultural component of the preparatory process is an important component of high-quality communication. The analyzed experience of the programs of the University of California made it possible to come to the conclusion about the significant role of familiarizing a foreign student with the cultural characteristics of the host country by conducting excursions, researching the socially significant areas that influence the American society (media, sport, cinema, etc.). That is why, the linguistic system of the University of California, Los Angeles is represented by the programs and courses of the intensive English. For the practical consolidation of theoretical material, the format of «within society» is actively adopted, which is characterized by the communicative contact with other personalities who are represented by both student and representatives of local community. Because of that the immersion approach is implemented. Further research of this problem should cover the level of linguistic and cultural adaptation training of foreign students in other higher educational institutions of the United States of America and other states with a high level of attendance of students from other countries; as well as conducting the comparative studies between the foreign and domestic experience of foreign students’ adaptation.

Analyzing the living and learning experience of foreign students at Jinan University

PurposeThe main objective of this research is to analyze the living and learning experience of foreign students at Jinan University (JNU). The study aims to elicit two basic purposes; first, to help JNU administrators to measure the level of satisfaction of students and response to their needs. Second, to assess the existing facilities in the context of quality of education, the syllabus, credit system, choices of available courses, foreign faculty, teaching resources, effective dissemination of knowledge, behavior of administration and teachers, quality of food versus price, dormitory conditions, library resources, and other necessary facilities for productive learning.Design/methodology/approachTo recognize the issues of foreign students and obtain their responses, this research has relied on several techniques. We have created a questionnaire and applied a systematic sampling technique. The questionnaire has been divided into several categories and sub-categories.FindingsFindings of this study have confirmed that majority of the foreign students at JNU are satisfied with the learning and living conditions.Research limitations/implicationsThough our study is subject to limitations, yet it provides some valuable insights. Due to lack of resources and time, we have limited our sample size to 27. However despite having few respondents, the overall feedback represents the entire population. Additionally, this study is mainly focused on foreign student’s living and learning experiences satisfaction. Hence, no dependent and independent variable relationship is being determined or argued.Practical implicationsHowever, as indicated by the respondents, JNU needs to improve its learning facilities, as well as induction of additional foreign faculty, availability of English text books, security of student dormitories, expansion of sports facilities, renovation of university roads, and installation of new equipment in the laborites. Such conclusion provides the administration and other stakeholders with valuable indicators of how well the JNU is meeting with the expectations of international students and how resources might best be directed to improve further services.Originality/valueOur approach is unique and inventive, as so far there has been very little research that has been carried out on this topic on Chinese Universities. This study serves as a benchmark in measuring the living and learning experience of foreign students at JNU. The results of the research would be useful for planning and improving the quality of services and help the administration in formulating better policies for international students.

Act Local but Think Global: Transcultural Nursing Competencies and Experiences of Foreign Students from Selected Higher Education Institutions in the Philippines

The need for transcultural nursing competencies amongst students offers an array ofimprovements in nursing education, hospitals, and communities around the globe. Thisresearch assessed the level of transcultural nursing competencies and experiences of foreignnursing students. The objectives of the study are to assess the: level of perceived transculturalexperiences of respondents in terms of nursing education, classroom instruction, clinicalinstruction and clinical practice; level of transcultural nursing competencies of therespondents in terms of cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skills, culturalencounters and cultural desire; and the significant relationship between perceivedtranscultural experiences of respondents and their level of transcultural nursing competencies.Data were collected using descriptive-evaluative, descriptive-comparative and descriptivecorrelational research designs with a purposive sample of 104 respondents through aresearcher-made tool which underwent exploratory factor analysis establishing its reliabilityand validity. Frequency distribution and percentage, weighted mean and standard deviation,and Spearman rank were utilized for data analysis. Respondents had adequate generalexperiences in nursing education (M=3.13); classroom instruction (M=3.16); clinicalinstruction (M=3.13) and clinical practice (M=3.38). They acquired clinical experiences andadequate competence in cultural awareness (M=3.73); cultural knowledge (M=3.24); culturalskills (M=3.27); cultural encounters (M=3.16) and cultural desire (M=3.52). Respondentswere knowledgeable of other cultures and they understood institutional difficultiesdiscouraging cultural groups from obtaining healthcare services. They had skills inunderstanding the relationship between health and culture including cultural assessment toolsused to evaluate patients and they possessed the willingness to learn from others. Significantrelationship were between general experiences in nursing education and cultural awareness(p=0.003); classroom instruction and cultural skills (p=0.002); clinical instruction and clinicalawareness (p=0.024) and cultural skills (p=0.003); cultural encounters (p=0.001) and culturaldesire (p=0.021); clinical practice and cultural awareness (p=0.000); cultural skills (p=0.003);cultural encounters (p=0.000) and cultural desire (p=0.012). Students’ theoretical and clinicalexperiences need strengthening and improvement by incorporating transcultural nursing inthe curriculum.

Lived Experiences of Foreign Students towards the Development of a Language Adjustment Assessment Tool

<p><em>As part of internationalization of higher education, student mobility has expanded over the past decade. Particularly, at St. Paul University Philippines, internationalization is established by hosting foreign students from Basic Education Unit to the Graduate School. Reviewed literature shows that foreign students across countries face a range of unique acculturation difficulties brought by language difference. However, none of these focused solely on language adjustment of foreign students. The researcher considered this particular space in sociolinguistics as a potential niche to occupy, with the aim of explicating the lived experiences of foreign students to develop a language adjustment assessment tool. This study used hermeneutical phenomenology in understanding the lived experiences of foreign students on language adjustment. Considering data saturation in the qualitative phase, the researcher involved 18 college foreign students using semi-structured one-on-one interview. The data were subjected to thematic structural analysis to find emerging themes. Based on such themes, the researcher developed a language adjustment assessment tool in the quantitative phase, which was pilot-tested to 76 medical foreign students and finally administered to 51 college foreign students using purposive-convenient sampling. Cohens Kappa was used to assess the instrument’s validity while Cronbach’s Alpha for reliability. Based on the findings of the study, more enablers affecting language adjustment of foreign students were identified than constraints. Moreover, four major themes emerged including Language-related General Living Adjustments, Language-related Academic Adjustments, Language-related Socio-Cultural Adjustments, and Language-related Psychological Adjustments. The developed language adjustment assessment tool was also evaluated to be fairly valid and reliable.</em></p>

Integrating Global Health into the Medical Curriculum: Experience of Foreign Students in Ukraine

Program Purpose: Global health is a collaborative trans-national research and action for promoting health for all. 1 We believe that medical education curriculum must change to incorporate rigorous training in biosocial health determinants to ensure that all future health professionals are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to practice medicine. For this reason, a 2-day Certificate Course in Global Health for all students in the country, the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, was organized. Method: 107 foreign medical students from Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Jordan, Kenya, Zambia, Iraq and a variety of countries attended the course from medical universities all over Ukraine. The program involved 11-sessions and was facilitated by Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III MD, a professor of Global Health and Public Health, X’ian-Jiantong-Liverpool University. Student speakers gave Explanatory lectures Result: The trainees were enlightened on the basic theories and concepts including current trends, challenges and debates in global health, global health epidemiology, global health equity, global health tools and approaches, and how to build careers in global health. Attendees were given brief exercises to complete. Discussion: The aim is to develop a curriculum and make it a mainstay in medical education of foreign students in Ukraine. We are also using this as an avenue to build research capacity in upcoming medical professionals of the developing world. Global Health Action 2010

The Cultural Experience of Foreign Students in hall-yu(Korean-wave): Its Forming Structure and Transformation Korea

The Cultural Experience of Foreign Students in hall-yu(Korean-wave): Its Forming Structure and Transformation Korea

Foreign Students’ Adjustment in Early Days of Their University Education: The Stress and Strains

The study purported to understand the experiences of foreign students on their early days of their university education. A lot has been done to ascertain how students generally fare on university campuses but little research attention had been paid to how people from different socio-cultural, political and economic backgrounds fared when they settled to commence their education in a foreign land, and how they managed the challenges. The qualitative study used 26 international students from five countries pursuing undergraduate education at the Catholic University College of Ghana. The study unveils that the international students in the University College experience some social, academic and economic challenges in their early days on campus. The study has brought to the fore the inadequacy of the measures that the authorities put in place to enhance international students’ adjustment on campus. The university authority needs to have special and intensive orientation for its fresh international students to ameliorate, if not to eradicate, the hardships such students encounter when they gain admission and commenced their study. The knowledge gained from the study is key to tertiary institutions in formulating effective orientation and strategies for institutions that admit international students. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p399

A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Foreign Students in Korea

이 연구는 한국사회 내 급격히 증가하고 있는 외국인 유학생의 한국생활 경험을 통해 한국인과 한국문화를 타자의 시각에서 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 질적 연구방법을 활용하여 13명의 외국인 유학생을 대상으로 심층면담을 한 결과 이들의 생활경험은 크게 한국인과 한국문화로 범주화되었다. 한국인은 권위주의, 배타적 성향, 이분법적 태도 그리고 다문화에 대한 일반화로, 한국문화는 집단주의, 고정화된 성역할, 모순된 호칭, 경쟁 그리고 생활서비스로 세부주제가 도출되었다. 이들은 한국인이 위계와 서열을 따지고 배려심은 부족함을 지적하였다. 특히 서구와 비서구, 영어사용, 피부색에 따른 이분법적 태도와 다문화인에 대한 일반화를 비판하였다. 술을 매개로 한 집단의식과 ‘빨리빨리’와 외모치장 등으로 표출된 경쟁문화를 지적했다. 하지만 이들은 한국생활 전반의 환경과 서비스에 대해서는 높게 평가하였다. 이에 한국인의 인식, 태도, 행동의 변화와 한국문화 개선을 위한 다문화교육의 필요성을 제안하였다.<BR><BR>

Adjustment Experiences of Foreign Students in Liceo de Cagayan University: A Basis for Program Recommendation to the Guidance Center

The study was conducted to determine the rate of foreign student’s adjustments in Liceo de Cagayan University (LDCU). Specifically, the study delved into (1) the profile of the respondents in terms of their age, gender, nationality, course, no. of years in LDCU; (2) the extent of their cultural, socialization, interaction, communication, and conflict adjustments; and (3) the significant difference between the profile of the respondents and their adjustments experiences. Using the descriptive research design, ten foreign respondents were chosen from the original twelve. The findings of the study revealed the following: Most (50%) of the respondents were between 18-20 years old and the majority (60%) were males. Majority of the respondents (60%) were Koreans and half of them (50%) took Bachelor of Arts courses, while the rest were distributed into the following courses: BSEd, BS Psych, BSPT, BSBA, and BST-HRM. The respondents describe their cultural adjustment as fair (2.30). While their socialization (2.68), interaction (2.74), and communication (2.60) adjustments are described as good, respectively. However, the conflict adjustment (3.18) indicates that the respondents often encounter difficulty in adjusting when confronted with complicated situations in dealing with their classmates. It was also found that the personal demographic profiles of respondents like age and gender did not affect their adjustment experiences. This implies that the adjustment process is quite the same for both genders and across all ages. Since the data revealed that foreign students had some degree of difficulties with their cultural adjustments, there are some activities that must be offered by the University to make the foreign students adjust easily to their new environment. They would be able to appreciate the Filipino culture if they will undergo cultural immersion programs.

Grounded Identities, Transient Lives: The Emergence of International Student Voices in an Era of Cosmopolitan Learning

This paper is an exploration of the identity negotiations of two international undergraduate students at a public research university in the United States. Studying abroad constitutes a culturally contested space for educational sojourners, with ruptures that require constant sense-making and negotiations of identities as students attempt to combine the foreign and the familiar. Situational contexts, interpersonal interactions, and the imagination all determine what students learn and how that learning occurs. However, the influence of cosmopolitan learning on the identity negotiations of students is little understood. The experiences of foreign students in many ways challenge the traditional understanding of an international education and the categorization of a traditional international student. Focusing almost exclusively on nationality as an organizing agent and bereft of significant and robust concepts that bring into view the content of international student sense-making, international education discourses neglect to explore the complexity and meanings students ascribe to educational sojourns.

Preface

Preface&lt;br /&gt;The last eight months (May to December of 2011) have been very hectic for the UIC Research and Development Center since there were three research forums that we organized to facilitate the dissemination of 18 studies that appear in this issue (Volume 17 Number 2 October 2011) of our faculty research journal. The bulk of work that Ms. Emma V. Sagarino and I had to finish is hard to describe but we are thankful that despite of such challenge, we still finally get hold of this issue. Of course, the Research Committee and the Panel of Reviewers as well as all the writers are very significant to this effort. Without them, the release of this issue would have not been made possible. A million thanks to all of you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This particular issue is divided into six sections, namely Health, Engineering &amp;amp; Engineering Education, Curriculum &amp;amp; Instruction, Social Sciences, Science &amp;amp; Math Education, and Information Technology&lt;br /&gt;Education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three studies on Health led by Marlon B. Sepe, S. Ma. Remegia M. Cirujales and Emma V. Sagarino report about an innovative technology that can ensure a safe drinking water and alleviate poverty to the people in rural communities, the working conditions of Filipino nurses abroad, and the status of women’s health in selected banana plantations, respectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UIC Engineering Faculty has managed to complete three studies delving into the safety practices in engineering field and current instructional strategies directly affecting the engineering curricula. The researchers for Engineering and Engineering Education are Bryant S. Arante, Renan P. Limjuco collaborating with Fr. Francisco G. Glover and Isagani M. Mendez, and Neil C. Capricho with Michael M. Obenque and Fe Monique F. Musni. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the section Curriculum and Instruction, two studies concerning the intensification of instruction, curriculum, and research in UIC were authored by Alvin O. Cayogyog who worked with Reynaldo O. Cuizon, and Emma V. Sagarino with Deogracia B. Corpuz. The first study tackled constructs such as Capability, Culture, and Passion for research and their relationships to each other, while the second investigation analyzed the 5-year performance of the UIC BS in Accountancy graduates in CPA board examinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, three research articles appear in Social Sciences section. One of them was done by Mona L. Laya and Jason N. Marquez, who described in their work the brand of leadership that is epitomized by Rodrigo&lt;br /&gt;R. Duterte. Then, Bienvinido E. Infante and Maribeth Q. Galindo, leading the Social Science Faculty, documented the multi-faceted experiences of foreign students in UIC, and the team of Alvin O. Cayogyog and Ariel E. San Jose investigated the lived philosophies of LGU Officials in reference to their human core faculties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The section for Science and Math Education accommodates the scholarly works of Adorico M. Aya-ay, Orcheliza L. Paramo, and Renan P. Limjuco who shared the findings of their own investigations about the distribution and relative abundance of medium-sized arboreal mammals at Mt. Mahuson, Mount Apo, development and validation of teacher’s laboratory competence evaluation instrument, and creative learning enrichment for mathematics appreciation, respectively, to elevate the quality of science and mathematics education in the university.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three ICT researchers were highlighted in the section Information Technology Education. Shenna Rhea A. Maranguit, et. al., conducted a study entitled Developing a Server-Side Scripting Language Converter for Translating ColdFusion to PHP, while Eric John G. Emberda, et. al., completed their work Developing a Web Proxy Server Application to Minimize Cross-Site Scripting Attacks. Exander T. Barrios, et.al., contributed two different studies. They are entitled A Consolidated Web Browser Interface Using Multiple Browser Libraries for Testing Web Designs and Implementing Symmetric Cryptography on SMS Messaging for Generic Phone Using J2ME Platform. These four studies deal with software development which aims to offer new features to the existing applications available in the Internet. The designs were conceptualized involving several stages and upon consultation with software developers in the region as well as with the intended users of the proposed technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

The Effect of India’s Rainbow Culture on Global Management

Globalization is the gradual disappearance of territorial differences in economic activities and therefore understanding cross-cultural customs and business practices, working on promoting efficiency and optimizing profitability in a globalized environment is of paramount importance for budding managers. In this study an attempt is made to examine the role of business schools in recognizing the need for international business operations and also incorporating student exchange programmes for international students to gain a first-hand experience about global management. This study is an endeavour to understand the effect of India’s diverse culture on learning experience of foreign students who are on study-abroad programmes in India. A primary research, based in-depth personal interviews of a sample of German students who were part of study-abroad programmes in business management has been used to assess the impact of India’s rainbow culture on global management. The major findings of the study suggest that the programs have benefited students by sensitizing them towards social and cultural differences, increasing their cross-cultural intelligence, and providing them with global exposure and networking opportunities with their counterparts.

Language Skills and Adaptation: A Study of Foreign Students in a Canadian University

ABSTRACTReporting on a large mail survey of foreign students at the University of Toronto, we examine the relationships among overall experience at the university, students' evaluation of their academic program, and ability in the English language. Our data are consistent with a simple model stipulating that difficulty with English diminishes the overall experience of foreign students by undercutting satisfaction with their academic programs.

Uprooting and Development: Dilemmas of Coping with Modernization.

I: Coping with the Inner and Outer Worlds of Change.- 1 Contemporary Uprootings and Collaborative Coping: Behavioral and Societal Responses.- 2 Change, Vulnerability, and Coping: Stresses of Uprooting and Overcrowding.- 3 Identity, Politics, and Planning: On Some Uses of Knowledge in Coping with Social Change.- 4 Stress, Strain, and Role Adaptation: Conceptual Issues.- II: Meanings and Impacts of Uprooting.- 5 The Uprooting of Meaning.- 6 Uprooting and Self-Image: Catastrophe and Continuity.- 7 Sociological Dimensions of Uprootedness.- 8 The Long-Term Sequelae of Uprooting: Conceptual and Practical Issues.- III: Stressful Situations of Children and Adolescents in Transition: The Role of Attachments and Social Supports.- 9 Young Children in Stressful Situations: The Supporting Role of Attachment Figures and Unfamiliar Caregivers.- 10 Relocation and the Family: A Crisis in Adolescent Development.- 11 Coming Home: Adjustment of Americans to the United States after Living Abroad.- 12 Running Away in America: The History and the Hope.- IV: Stressful Situations of Foreign Students: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Education.- 13 Stressful Experiences of Foreign Students at Various Stages of Sojourn: Counseling and Policy Implications.- 14 Role Learning as a Coping Strategy for Uprooted Foreign Students.- 15 Research on Students from Abroad: The Neglected Foreign Policy Implications.- V: Stressful Situations of New Settlers: Coping Strategies of Immigrant Women and New Ethnic Groups.- 16 Stress and Coping among Latin American Women Immigrants.- 17 Patterns of Adaptation of Indian Immigrants: Challenges and Strategies.- 18 New Immigrants and Social-Support Systems: Information-Seeking Patterns in a Metropolis.- 19 Making Friends in a New Culture: South Asian Women in Boston, Massachusetts.- VI: Stressful Situations of Uprooted Communities: The Role of Public and Government Bodies.- 20 Forced Migration: Its Impact on Shaping Coping Strategies.- 21 Integration of Immigrants: The Israeli Case.- 22 After the Fall: Indochinese Refugees in the United States.- 23 Relocation and Rapid Growth: Case Studies of the Effects of Federal Policy on Life in Rural Communities.