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This study explores and empirically investigates and classifies the major reverse culture shock aspects, difficulties that Syrian returning academics encounter once they come back to their sending universities, and their previous cultural exposure when they studied abroad. The data is collected using a questionnaire developed for the purpose of thi...
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... than half of them were appointed as teaching assistants at the Syrian universities prior to leaving to the receiving country. The Syrian governmental policy towards studying abroad was majored by western receiving countries including Germany, France and Britain (see Table 1). Considerable numbers of these PhDs holders come back every year to Syria to start their new career as full academic members at their faculties. ...