In the first episode of International Career Journey, Dr Sherrie Lee talks with Sumati Sharma about leaving an established career in India to become a student again — and everything she had to learn, unlearn, and rebuild along the way. A conversation about cultural adaptation, professional networking, and what it means to belong to two countries at once.
Many international professionals arrive in New Zealand with impressive qualifications and a decade of experience — and still can’t get hired. Not because they’re not capable, but because the local labour market screens for something credentials alone can’t provide: community, local networks, and cultural familiarity. This article maps the credential trap, why it catches experienced professionals by surprise, and what career-changer migrants and the advisors who support them can do about it.
Reaching the final destination – seven years later. My story of the peaks and troughs of settling in New Zealand.
I’ve been reading the draft policy statement on high-value international education in New Zealand which aims to define what ‘high value’ means and minimise risks. Reading between the lines, the policy is responding to the growth of ‘low value’ and ‘high risk’ international education in the past decade or longer, most visible in the sub-degree…
An invitation to multilingual educators and researchers to champion linguistic and cultural diversity.
In his keynote at the 2018 ISANA Conference, Fazal Rizvi calls for international education practitioners to recognise the competing forces of globalisation and protectionism, and to actively – reflexively – work against unproductive outcomes. Inspired to take up an ethical response to the current state of affairs, I first respond to a nagging and troubling aspect of international education that is seldom discussed.
