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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ahmed A

Ahmed A

"International students: a vulnerable student population". - 0 views

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    Sherry, Mark, Thomas Peter and Wing Hong Chui. "International students: a vulnerable student population". Higher Education; Jul 2010, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p33-46, 14p. The article takes a study of students at University of Toledo right here in Ohio, examining the problems they face as well as how they are helped in overcoming them, from social to economic to language barriers.
Ahmed A

"In America's Interest: Welcoming International Students" - 0 views

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    NAFSA: Association of International Educators, "In America's Interest: Welcoming International Students". Report of NAFSA's Strategic Task Force on International Student Access. January 14, 2003. This report was released to show how amidst all the recent terror attacks, efforts are being made to still allow much access to international students, while at the same time being very mindful of security threats to the U.S. It has various statements from important personnel's such as Koffi Anan and U.S Secretary of Defense.
Ahmed A

"NAFSA Opinion Article: Toward a New Foreign-Student Strategy" - 0 views

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    Johnson, Marlene. "NAFSA Opinion Article: Toward a New Foreign-Student Strategy". The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 28, 2006, Volume 52, Issue 47, Page B16. This opinion about the article states how the governments of some countries actually have strategies in place to attract a given amount of international students to their nations every year, most times to meet a certain goal. It states how they spend millions of dollars to make the nations more attractive to these students, and I'm guessing they do this because they know of the added benefit that having these students will have to their own nations.
Ahmed A

"Developed world is robbing African countries of health staff" - 0 views

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    Coombes, Rebecca."Developed world is robbing African countries of health staff". bmj.com. BMJ, Volume 230, p.923, April 23, 2005. This article talks about how developed nations are draining all the healthcare professionals out of the developing countries, and that this sort of drain is causing very strained health services in these regions, since most of them have very few to no doctors or nurses in most of the areas. This helps in quickening the depletion of health services and thus health in general, in these developing nations.
Ahmed A

"Who Plans (Not) to Study Abroad? - 0 views

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    Stroud, April. "Who Plans (Not) to Study Abroad? An Examination of U.S. Student Intent." Journal of Studies in International Education; 11/01/2010, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p491-507. This journal examines international education, specifically on how the U.S is taking steps to increase its students knowledge about the rest of the world, by increasing its study abroad programs and locations, as well as also changing schools curiculum and material, or bestly by passing federal Regulation to enforce all of this.
Ahmed A

International Students Contribute $17.6 Billion to U.S. Economy - 1 views

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    "International Students Contribute $17.6 Billion to U.S. Economy" NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Web. 2008-2009 Compiled Data This data sheet from NAFSA shows a compilation of data summing the amount of money spent and contributed to the U.S general economy from International student Education. IT holds most of the information in Pdf format thus making it more easily assessable.
Ahmed A

International students: information literacy or academic literacy? - 2 views

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    William Badke. "International students: information literacy or academic literacy?" Academic Exchange Quarterly, Dec 22, 2002. Web. This article looks at how international students may not actually be getting the education they may have thought they are bargaining for. He says yes, they receive an English education which may have been tougher to come by in their country, thereby becoming more literate, while in effect they do not actually gain any valuable academic literacy, comparable to what may have been available in their country of origin. He states that in effect these students are caught between an educational gap in which they face more language challenges than they do actual academic challenges, and as such spend most of their education just trying to get over the language barrier hump, while sacrificing academia knowledge they would have otherwise been gaining.
Ahmed A

How Do American Students Measure Up? Making Sense of International Comparisons. - 2 views

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    Koretz, Daniel, "How Do American Students Measure Up? Making Sense of International Comparisons." Future of Children; Spring2009, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p37-51, 15p, 1 Graph This article looks at the U.S education system and international student education in a different light, unlike most of the other articles; it looks at how the U.S Education system, in reality is secondary to that of many foreign country's. His point of comparison is the students emerging from these educational systems. He states how the perception of poor academia amongst U.S children actally holds, since on average U.S kids perform less, and have more studying disabilities than do children from other foreign countries. I personally believe there is a lot of truth in this article based on the facts and realities i myself experience. No offense intended, just academic debate.
Ahmed A

Internationalizing the Curriculum: Improving Learning Through International Education: ... - 1 views

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    Guerin, Stephen H. "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Improving Learning Through International Education: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Society." Community College Journal of Research & Practice; Aug2009, Vol. 33 Issue 8, p611-614, 4p Still in view of international education, this article looks at how the education being received by the students here, although thought to be globalized, is actually really only nationalized. They did a survey of the curriculum's of various schools which have a strong international student base and found this to be true. All in all it proves its point that the notion of an international education actually most times does not do much in the way of preparing the students for an international or global education.
Ahmed A

The growth of international students and economic development: friends or foes? - 1 views

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    Adnett, Nick. "The growth of international students and economic development: friends or foes?" Journal of Education Policy; Sep2010, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p625-637, 13p This article looks at the topic of international student education and its cost/benefits to the students, thier country of origin as well as to the host country. It tries to support the notion that most times these international students are coming from poorer countries and as such the influx of resources, both financial and intellectual is escaping those country's into the host country.
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