What does it mean to be an international professional? I share my backstory as an international professional – starting with some discomforting truths, but ultimately inviting you to join me in the spirit of Carpe Diem!
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…
I have been, and continue to be, troubled by how (im)migrants are portrayed by the media, and by extension, viewed by readers of media, and one could argue, on the basis of how society has made up its mind on the topic. To put it crudely, migrants are valued more for their economic contributions than…
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.
Presentation at the Global Knowledge Economy Seminar organised by the Postgraduate Students’ Association held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, on 15 October 2018 My topic today was New Zealand’s fourth largest export industry in 2016, then valued at more than $4 billion dollars, and supported more than 30 thousand jobs across the…
