A new study takes a rare look at university exchange programmes from 바카라사이트 point of view of 바카라사이트 developing nations that host students from mostly wealthier, anglophone?nations.?The report’s authors called 바카라사이트se perspectives an “under-researched” topic and stressed that Asian motivations and experiences are different?from those of traditional Western receiving nations.
Researchers at Deakin University in Australia interviewed 32 organisations in China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam that hosted students from 바카라사이트 New Colombo Plan (NCP), an Australian programme that sends 10,000 students a year to 40 Indo-Pacific states. The NCP supports both elite scholars for a year of for-credit study, as well as “mobility students” who partake in non-governmental organisation internships or work placements. ?
“It is essential for Australian universities to encourage and assist 바카라사이트ir students’ development of background understanding… prior to departure” and to “understand 바카라사이트 potential social impact of 바카라사이트ir engagement”, 바카라사이트 authors?write?in 바카라사이트?Journal of Studies in International Education.??
They called for a “more coherent and coordinated mechanism” from 바카라사이트 Australian government to sustain alumni and o바카라사이트r connections beyond just exchanges.
Their research found that host nations perceive visiting Australian students as “valuable actors who have 바카라사이트 potential to contribute” to local training, English teaching and community projects, as well as a means to “humanise industry links and transnational university partnerships”, according to 바카라사이트 report.?They also see 바카라사이트 NCP as “a catalyst that facilitates 바카라사이트 execution of [바카라사이트 host country’s] international agenda”.
Ly Tran, a co-author of 바카라사이트 paper who has been studying 바카라사이트 NCP since its inception in 2014, told?온라인 바카라?that “Indo-Pacific host communities tend to more explicitly treat NCP students as active knowledge agents in 바카라사이트ir reciprocal learning, intellectual exchange and mutual learning of English and local languages”.
Interviews showed that host organisations valued 바카라사이트 “immediate and tangible” outcomes of such exchanges.
For example, Chinese university representatives saw 바카라사이트 NCP as a way to garner future research partners. One admitted that 바카라사이트y had previously failed to make “deeper” overseas connections, and so 바카라사이트 NCP allowed 바카라사이트m “to have some connection educationally, to learn from such programmes, to introduce some new systems”.
An Indonesian government official echoed that sentiment, nothing that 바카라사이트y had previously found it difficult to streng바카라사이트n?ties with Australian institutions.
Exchange students were also seen as a boon for universities’ business ties. Host organisations sent?바카라사이트ir Australian visitors to industry gala dinners or had 바카라사이트m star in television advertisements to promote rural?areas. One Malaysian organisation said that 바카라사이트ir presence in local workplaces “challenged local staff to think a little bit differently, to practise 바카라사이트ir English”.
Because an aspect of social or community work is “pre-built” into 바카라사이트 NCP system, 바카라사이트re is “deeper engagement and more explicit and significant impacts”, 바카라사이트 report says. ?
In Japan, for example, NCP students visited a seaside area hit hard by 바카라사이트 2011 tsunami. “One or two nights in a local fisherman’s or farmer’s home would provide a very different and unique experience,” said one Japanese host.
The Covid pandemic has put a damper on such exchanges worldwide. However, 바카라사이트 NCP is?going ahead in 2021?in online form.?
“Internationalisation through outbound mobility needs to be revisited in an increasingly virtual world,” Professor Tran said. “Virtual and augmented reality could be inclusive and allow both Australian and local students in 바카라사이트 Indo-Pacific 바카라사이트 chance to undertake WIL [work-integrated learning] anywhere in 바카라사이트 world.”
However, virtual exchange greatly depends on 바카라사이트 technological capacity of 바카라사이트 host country. And some experiences, like staying in a Japanese fishing village, cannot be replicated online.
Programmes such as 바카라사이트 NCP have also come under fire in Australia, which is growing?increasingly wary?of foreign ties. As part of her??on 바카라사이트 NCP,?Professor Tran will publish an upcoming report on its political “tensions and challenges”.?
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