In the past decade, thousands of Chinese doctoral students received funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to start a 1--2-year exchange study in European universities. Do these Chinese doctoral students significantly improve their academic skills and publications through such an overseas experience? What are the influencing factors for…

This study investigates foreign students' attitudes towards and adjustment to the Swedish system of university education. The report is exclusively concerned with the academic adjustment of a group of 120 students from the so-called "developing countries." A questionnaire on different aspects of Swedish university education which…

Factors and conditions that facilitate or retard international exchange in education and research at Japanese universities were studied, and Japanese higher education was assessed from the perspective of international openness. The following surveys were conducted: an Institutional Survey on International Exchange Programs in Japanese…