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International Students’ Lived Experiences: A Review Of Literature, Amira El Masri, Noah Khan Jan 2022

International Students’ Lived Experiences: A Review Of Literature, Amira El Masri, Noah Khan

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Review Of Academic Skill Programs At Post Secondary Institutions & Designing Impactful Academic Supports For International Students, Sheela Iyer, Joan Sweeney-Marsh Apr 2021

Review Of Academic Skill Programs At Post Secondary Institutions & Designing Impactful Academic Supports For International Students, Sheela Iyer, Joan Sweeney-Marsh

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This paper presents a review of academic skills programs at post-secondary institutions and offers three options for designing impactful academic supports for international students, including Option A: Modules/Workshops; Option B: General Elective Course; Option C: Mixed Model Solution. This review was informed by the Academic Preparedness Plan prepared by Joan Sweeney Marsh, Marian Traynor and Danielle Palombi.


International Education Policymaking: A Case Study Of Ontario’S Trillium Scholarship Program, Amira El Masri Dec 2020

International Education Policymaking: A Case Study Of Ontario’S Trillium Scholarship Program, Amira El Masri

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This paper explores Ontario’s international education policy landscape through illuminating the discursive struggles to define international student funding policies, in particular the international doctoral students’ Trillium Scholarship. Adopting Hajer’s (1993, 2006) Discourse Coalition Framework, the study engages with three research questions: What paved the way to this funding policy? Who were the actors engaged in this policy landscape? How has the argumentation over this policy influenced the international education policy context in Ontario? Argumentative discourse analysis was used to analyze three data sources: news articles, policy documents, and interviews. Two storylines were identified: international student funding is desirable and beneficial …


Power, Politics, And Education: Canadian Universities And International Education In An Era Of New Geopolitics, Roopa Desai Trikokekar, Amira El Masri, Hani El Masry Jan 2020

Power, Politics, And Education: Canadian Universities And International Education In An Era Of New Geopolitics, Roopa Desai Trikokekar, Amira El Masri, Hani El Masry

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This paper focuses on the recent political spars between Canada and Saudi Arabia as well as China and their impact on Canadian universities. It asks three questions: (1) What key issues did Canada’s political strains with Saudi Arabia and China raise for Canadian universities’ international education (IE) initiatives and what issues were absent? (2) What do these key issues suggest about Canada’s approaches to IE in an era of new geopolitics? and (3) What implications can be drawn from these cases about Canadian university-government relations in the context of new geopolitics? Given the powerful role media plays in education policy, …


International Education As Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis Of The Construction, Context, And Empowerment Of Ontario's International Education Storylines, Amira El Masri Nov 2019

International Education As Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis Of The Construction, Context, And Empowerment Of Ontario's International Education Storylines, Amira El Masri

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This study aims to examine the international education (IE) policy-making context in Ontario for the period from 2005 to mid-2017 while also taking into account the announcement of the new policy document Ontarios International Postsecondary Education Strategy 2018. It sets out to answer three research questions: (a) How is international education constructed as a policy discourse in the postsecondary sector in Ontario? (b) Who are the policy actors who are contributing to the postsecondary international education policy-making process in Ontario? and (c) What role do they play in influencing IE policy and empowering and silencing different discourses? To answer these …


Successful Models For Enhancing International Students’ Academic Success: Research And Recommendations, Joan Sweeney-Marsh, Kathleen Oakey Oct 2019

Successful Models For Enhancing International Students’ Academic Success: Research And Recommendations, Joan Sweeney-Marsh, Kathleen Oakey

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