EMPLOYMENT OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION GRADUATES: ISSUES OF ECONOMY AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
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Date
2021-03-30
Authors
Jonbekova, Dilrabo
Kim, Tatyana
Kerimkulova, Sulushash
Ruby, Alan
Sparks, Jason
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Higher Education Quarterly
Abstract
The use of international scholarship programmes is part of a long-standing approach to human capital development in many developing and middle-income countries that finance studies at universities abroad and locally. Yet, many scholarship alumni struggle to thrive in their home country and encounter numerous difficulties in their transition to the job market. This paper examines the employment experiences of Kazakhstan's government scholarship alumni in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields and identifies the challenges they encounter navigating the labour market. Our analysis of 45 interviews demonstrated that although alumni hold a positional advantage in the job market and many succeed, there are also many alumni whose employability and career success are impeded by an intersection of socioeconomic and cultural factors, intergenerational clashes and scholarship programme regulations. The implications for scholarship programmes and government policy goals are discussed.
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Type of access: Open Access, international education graduates, international scholarship programmes, job market
Citation
Jonbekova, D., Kim, T., Kerimkulova, S., Ruby, A., & Sparks, J. (2021). Employment of international education graduates: Issues of economy and resistance to change. Higher Education Quarterly, 75(4), 618–633. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12321