This chapter discusses Japan's ODA scholarship program for foreign students. The program is broadly divided into the Japanese Government Scholarship Program and the JICA Scholarship Program. Although the Japanese Government Scholarship Program was the main scholarship program between the 1950s and the 1980s, it diversified with the start of the…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the intersection of English and education through a systematic review of academic literature. It focuses on identifying key research themes and future research areas, particularly in sustainable teaching and learning practices within the field of English education. Design/methodology/approach: This study…

Critiques of neoliberal capitalism have offered a rich vocabulary for the analysis of the political economy of literacy across professional, public, and classroom contexts. Since the Great Recession, commonplaces about work-readiness have been conditioned by economic precarity and changes to the social contract of work that blur the lines between…

This bibliometric analysis explores the rapidly growing field of open education, offering insight into its nature and the wide range of academic topics it covers. This study applies co-citation and co-word analyses approach to critically review 402 publications from the Web of Science database. The aim is to identify emerging topics, seminal…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of an collaborative online international learning (COIL) program on student behavioral satisfaction and community engagement, with a focus on diversity and sustainability. Explore how these changes affect students' perceptions of the impact of these activities and their motivation to use…

This systematic review to identify the distribution of articles from two databases using the science mapping method, and to investigate the preparedness of educators for the development of digital education in economics. The descriptive analysis is used to identify the research trends globally on the development of digital education in the scope…

The film "Moana" creates a universe that is at once imaginative and familiar in that it is a fanciful depiction of real-world issues related to the environment. This sets the stage for an engaging series of activities with important content implications integrating environmental issues into elementary social studies. "Moana" is…

Peer collaboration is widely recognized as essential in children's learning and early childhood education policy and pedagogy. However, research has largely focused on researchers' interpretations, with limited attention to teachers' perspectives. Conducted in a Chinese preschool, this study explored how teachers perceived and interpreted…

To function in global business, managers require global business knowledge and skills to deal with cultural differences. Business schools must develop the global business literacy of their students, but it is not clear what factors determine the dimensions of global business literacy and what role country differences play. This study compares the…

The intellectual potential of a nation is a critical determinant of its human resource capabilities, with higher education serving as the foundation for cultivating such potential. Traditionally regarded as a public service, higher education has evolved in recent decades to incorporate diverse models that blend public and private sector roles.…

This paper proposes a resource-capability-based framework of quality management in Higher Education (HE) and empirically tests it against the experience of HE institutes in Pakistan. The paper posits that HE institutions face intensifying global education competition in a world of accelerated globalization, fast pace of technology development, and…

This paper delves into the historical trajectory of China's higher education internationalization since 1840, examining its social context, underlying motivations, policies, and practices across various historical epochs. The focal point of our discussion is the chronological evolution of internationalizing Chinese higher education, substantiated…

International travel is still commonly touted as one of the most effective tools for language learning, yet it remains an elusive activity for those without a certain amount of economic or legal privilege. Although physical return to the home country is not always possible for refugees and their families--even one or more generation after…

As an emerging quality assurance system, Vietnam has undertaken various research initiatives in this field. This chapter provides an initial review of research on quality assurance in Vietnamese higher education that helps identify quality assurance aspects and methodologies crucial for the development of quality assurance practices and systems.…

Background/Purpose: This study investigates the impacts and challenges of Decree No. 86/2018/ND-CP on foreign cooperation and investment in Vietnam's higher education, aiming to enhance internationalization while addressing local educational needs. Materials/Methods: The analysis draws on empirical data from the Ministry of Education and Training…