Meeting the Needs of Chinese International Students Is There Anything We Can Learn From Their Home System?

• Published in: Journal of studies in international education Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 357 - 370
• Main Authors: Liu, Wei, Lin, Xiaobing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Annäherung; Canada; China; Chinese culture; Comparative Analysis; Comparative Education; Dienstleistung; Educational Objectives; Efficiency; Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Governance; Internationalität; Kanada; Need Gratification; Needs; Student; Student behavior; Student Needs; Student Organizations; Student participation; Student Personnel Services; Student Personnel Workers; Student recruitment; Teacher attitudes; Universities; University admissions; University professors; Canada; China; international student service; Canada; approach; China
• ISSN: 1552-7808; 1028-3153; 1552-7808
• DOI: 10.1177/1028315316656456

Discussed in this article are the different governance models in international student services in Canadian and Chinese universities. Informing this study were 39 international student service providers from 38 top Chinese universities while interacting with their Canadian counterparts in a professional development program in Canada. The derived comparative data serve to show that a reactive decentralized model is used in international student services in Canada, while practiced in China is a more centralized proactive model. Although both models are rooted in their own social and cultural contexts, mutual learning is possible to some extent. The article ends with some discussion about possible ways Canadian universities can borrow from the Chinese system. (HoF/text adopted).