You Zhang

University of Toronto | U of T · Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Regional universities at the supra-national level have been a fascinating development in the internationalisation of higher education, but largely an ignored one. A regional university, defined as a higher education institution founded, funded and governed by a group of countries located in the same region, challenges the notion that universities a...

This study explores the strengths and more importantly the limitations of the current research of Internationalization at Home (IaH) in relation to equity. To do this, I draw on a survey of Chinese university students to 1) examine the relationship between their intercultural interaction with international students, partly operationalizing IaH, and...

en Both Canada and the United States enrol a significant number of international students. However, in March 2020, both countries closed their borders and increased restrictions to international travel due to COVID-19, which had a direct impact on international students' ability to travel between their home countries and study destinations. This ar...

As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, international higher education (IHE) enters a new territory and complicates models that describe a third wave of internationalization. Against this backdrop, we apply a three-layer (country, institution, individual) analysis to understand COVID-19’s impact on IHE in Canada and the United States, on...

The study aims to explore which factors influence international students’ decision to pursue doctoral studies in Canada. Drawing on the push-pull model and the mechanism of educational decision making, this study uses semi-structured interviews to gather data and explores themes such as political and economic forces, institutional factors, social b...

This article analyzes cross-national trends in national student-faculty ratios (SFRs) over the past five decades. In descriptive analyses, we find that SFRs have increased globally, driven by particularly large increases in low-income countries. We analyze two cross-national datasets to examine factors associated with national SFRs. We find that na...

This article examines how a sample of 62 higher education institutions in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom discuss international students in their official institutionalization strategies, focusing on how ideas of race and diversity are addressed. We find that institutional strategies connect international students to an abstract no...

This article examines national strategies on higher education internationalization in three East Asian countries: China, Japan, and South Korea. Specifically, through document analysis of five national educational documents since 2014, it examines what activities of higher education internationalization are underway and, more importantly, how natio...

This article examines how Canadian colleges and universities formally articulate their priority activities for internationalization, and what discursive rationales justify their approaches. Data come from 32 publicly-available internationalization strategies published in English by Canadian colleges and universities. In terms of practices, we find...

PULL & PUSH FACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXPERIENCE This paper explores the motivations of interna- tional doctoral students to study in Canada. Us- ing the “push–pull model” of international student choice (Mazzarol & Soutar, 2002) as our basic con- ceptual framework, we investigate the influence of various factors such as political and ec...

As the biggest developing country with the largest population in the world, China has made great achievements in education development, which has contributed tremendously to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity in the past decades. However, in the course of education development, many problems and issues have emerged, which have also been exten...