Sustainable supervisory relationships between postgraduate international students and supervisors: a qualitative exploration at a Malaysian research university

Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar

doi:10.1108/sgpe-03-2021-0027

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“…By providing intensive visa support for students, EMGS presumably plays a significant role in establishing Malaysia as a leader of inbound international students' mobility in ASEAN (Atherton et al, 2020). Despite these developments, except for a few recent efforts (e.g., Deni et al, 2021;Nachatar Singh., 2022), emic perceptions of educational experience in Malaysia from international students remain relatively rare.…”

Section: Internationalization Of He In Malaysiamentioning

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Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility

Trần

Xie

2023

High Educ

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International student mobility has traditionally witnessed a global South-North pattern. In recent years, a shift has occurred as the appeal of alternative geographies waxes, with Malaysia being an exemplar of inbound student mobility destination. To facilitate a deep probe of the under-researched global South-South student mobility, this study utilized a qualitative method to delve into 10 Chinese doctoral students’ emic perceptions of their sojourn in Malaysia. Guided by a theoretical framework incorporating decolonization and recolonization, this study unpacks how these sociohistorical forces penetrate into and shape the students’ preparation and navigation of a doctoral sojourn. Findings of the study reveal that while taking advantage of the Southern niche to yield commensurate benefits, thereby delegitimizing the Western supremacy, the students’ make-do mentality and self-subjugating resistance inadvertently reinforce the Western dominance. Besides, these macro effects generate interlocking and conflicting affective consequences, instilling simultaneously positivity and inclusivity, inferiority, and anxiety. Altogether, decolonization and recolonization are concretely registered at the emotional level and bear a broader social significance. This article concludes with an alert and a call to address covert yet compelling inequalities in international student mobility.

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Section: Internationalization Of He In Malaysiamentioning

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Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility

Trần

Xie

2023

High Educ

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“…In-depth Teaching [21][22][23], Course Content [24,25] Teaching Mode Academic Adaptation Cultural Identity [26,27], Job Prospects [13,28,29], Upgrade Education [11,30] Teaching Quality…”

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“…Difficulty in academic adaptation is a common problem for international students. Some international students excelled in their home countries before coming to China, but after coming to China, they find it difficult to adapt to the complicated curriculum, heavy homework, and strict assessment system, which leads to poor academic performance, and some will be dissatisfied because of China's education model, education environment, and quality of education and fear learning and weariness [29]. In the long run, the self-efficacy of international students in the course of learning continues to decrease, resulting in a psychological gap, affecting the academic adaptation of international students in China.…”

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Academic Adaptation of International Students in China: Evidence from the Grounded Theory and Structure Equation Model

Zhu

Yang

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With the continued increase in international students in China, the problem of their academic adaptation has become increasingly prominent. Analysis of the factors affecting the academic adaptation of international students and corresponding management practices can suggest measures to improve their academic adaptability. Based on grounded theory, this paper first summarizes the four main factors affecting the academic adaptation of international students, then uses structural equation modeling to construct a model of academic adaptation of international students that is tested and verified by a questionnaire survey of 2540 international students in China (51% male, 49% female). The main conclusions of this paper are as follows: (1) learning communication, course learning, and self-regulation are the main factors affecting the academic adaptation of international students, of which course learning is the most important factor; (2) academic communication and course learning have significant positive effects on self-regulation, while academic communication, course learning, and self-regulation have significant positive effects on the academic adaptation of international students; and (3) there was no significant difference in academic adaptation between genders, though there were significant differences by age. Among them, the mean score for overseas students is the largest for those older than 41 years (M = 4.79; SD = 0.33), showing that these students are most adaptable to study. Accordingly, this study advances policy suggestions for strengthening international students’ academic adaptation on the part of both universities and the government to improve the academic adaptation ability of international students in China.

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What are the factors affecting the participation of postgraduate students in research processes? From motivational variables to demographic variables

Doulani

Hossaini

2023

LHT

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the factors affecting the motivation of graduate students of information science in scientific and research activities and science production. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of type and method.Design/methodology/approachThe study's statistical population includes all postgraduate information science students studying in public universities. The random sampling method was simple. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and one-sample t-test, independent t-test, and ANOVA were used to analyze the collected data by SPSS software.FindingsFindings showed that all the main variables (internal motivations, external motivations, self-empowerment, and intellectual and specialized interactions) affect the participation of postgraduate students in research and scientific activities. Among the identified components, the creation of opportunities, research facilities, innovation, and formal relations between students and professors, has the most significant impact on students' motivation to participate in scientific and research activities and science production. There was no significant difference between education and age. From the results obtained from the present study, it can be said that the above variables, which were divided into four categories, with the intensity of the participation of graduate students of universities that in the present study examined the field of librarianship and information, with power and Or weakness are influential. This means that the students at the beginning of the research path, in other words, will be future researchers, should be constantly monitored as a source in the production of science.Originality/valueThis research is one of the few types of research that examines the influential variables in increasing the motivation to participate in the study, considering the population of postgraduate students of universities and scientific institutions as drivers of science production.

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Sustainable supervisory relationships between postgraduate international students and supervisors: a qualitative exploration at a Malaysian research university

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility

Between decolonization and recolonization: investigating Chinese doctoral students in Malaysia as a case of global South-South student mobility

Academic Adaptation of International Students in China: Evidence from the Grounded Theory and Structure Equation Model

What are the factors affecting the participation of postgraduate students in research processes? From motivational variables to demographic variables

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