{"id":2387,"date":"2015-11-27T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:36:19","slug":"the-placement-experience-of-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2015\/11\/27\/the-placement-experience-of-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"The Placement Experience of International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Marcellus Mbah, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in CEL recently presented the results of a study <\/a>he carried out with Kelly Goodwin on the placement experience of international students. The workshop was organised by the Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning Network<\/a> of the Society for Research into Higher Education\u00a0(SRHE)<\/a> and drew participants from more than twenty different universities in the UK. The study which was funded by the CEL Fusion Investment Fund was conducted against the backdrop of the UK losing its competitive edge for new international students according to a recent British Council report<\/a>. The growing cost of higher education has seen international students increasingly seeking return to investment and particularly in the form of employment after completion of studies. A 2013 survey of 1,100 students across Asia and Middle East carried out by IDP Education and reported by Universities UK<\/a>\u00a0asserts\u00a0that the UK was rated lowest in terms of perceived graduate employment opportunities amongst five main English-speaking destinations. In order to regain its competitive edge\u00a0in the global market share of international students, the Higher Education Sector in the UK have to\u00a0be perceived amongst other factors as actively\u00a0fostering the employability of international graduates. This means that several international students will need to take on a work placement and gain relevant\u00a0skills\u00a0as they aspire to secure work in a global economy. In order to achieve this effectively and sustainably, there is a need to examine\u00a0and enhance the placement experience of international students.\u00a0Drawing on a survey conducted with 41 international students and focus group discussion, the presentation at the SRHE workshop\u00a0advanced a support framework which can improve the placement experience of international students and increase their prospect for employment post-graduation.\u00a0The slides of the presentation can be\u00a0downloaded from the Event page<\/a> of the Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning Network of SRHE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Marcellus Mbah, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in CEL recently presented the results of a study he carried out with Kelly Goodwin on the placement experience of international students. The workshop was organised by the Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning Network of the Society for Research into Higher Education\u00a0(SRHE) and drew participants from more than… Read more » about The Placement Experience of International Students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}