With a growing economy, nascent middle class, and the fifth-largest population in the world, Indonesia makes a rich potential recruiting and partnership destination, but a closer look at some key numbers reveals a more nuanced picture.
Education Abroad
Study abroad, international education, and intercultural education are experiential learning avenues offered to students as a rich opportunity to fulfill a general education course requirement on diversity while having a life-changing experience.
Texas A&M University professor and former international student Kuang-An Chang helped lead the university’s first civil engineering study abroad program to Taiwan last year, guiding 14 students on their five-week academic and cultural experience in and around his undergraduate alma mater.
Institutions are developing new opportunities to help students afford study abroad.
Vietnam’s rapid economic growth, youth, and wealth have highlighted it as a nation to watch.
As the value of higher education in general is increasingly brought into question, international educators must emphasize in very real terms the value of investing in international education and learning.
Education abroad has traditionally been seen as something that students pursue only when they become juniors or seniors, but administrators are increasingly encouraging sophomores and even freshmen to go abroad.
Millennials and the young professionals of Generation Z wondering how to develop a career in international education are encountering a field that has changed considerably and that continues to evolve.