A 'pathway' to success: international students as partners in the process of transition to Australian higher education
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2017
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Velliaris, D.M.
Breen, P.B.
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Journal of Institutional Research South East Asia, 2017; 15(1):133-144
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Today’s university students are expected to graduate from their institutions with an increased awareness of the attributes they have acquired during their degree programs. The set of accumulated knowledge, skills and dispositions have come to be known as Graduate Attributes (GAs), which this paper sets out to define and then refocus around the needs of international ‘pathway’ students in the pre-university sector. To capture a sense of how this worked in practice, this paper is focused on the case of the Eynesbury Institute of Business and Technology (EIBT), which serves as the setting for a study that explored the way ‘values’ can be added to the experience of first-year international pathway students in Australia. Emphasis was on drawing ‘new’ students’ attention to the acquisition of ‘Core Learning Values’ (CLVs) and asking them to choose one of the Institute’s four values—Respect, Excellence, Curiosity or Passion— to discuss via a mandatory online questionnaire. Qualitative and narrative data provided rich insight into students’ preferred value and their reasoning.
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Copyright 2017 Southeast Asian Association for Institutional Research