Reviews: International students
6 reviews found for "International students"
- Book Review: Insight into IELTS / Insight into IELTS Extra (Workbook)
- The IELTS test and associated materials such as this coursebook, are of interest to different groups of educators: teachers of IELTS preparation courses, users of the test results and tutors in HE institutions who teach international students. The latter include university and college admissions tutors and lecturers on courses with students who have taken this test in order to meet an English language proficiency entry criterion
- Book Review: Postgraduate Study in the UK: The International Student's Guide
- his is an exemplary book. It is divided into four parts. The first discusses choosing a programme and how to apply. Divided into three chapters, it presents the range of reasons for undertaking a postgraduate degree (and the book covers taught Masters to Research Doctorates), discusses, in an impartial manner, the reasons for studying at a British university and proffers advice on choosing a postgraduate programme. The second part, probably...
- Book review : Internationalising higher education : enhancing learning, teaching and curriculum
- This is a book review of Internationalising higher education : enhancing learning, teaching and curriculum edited by Elspeth Jones and Sally Brown, published by Routledge in 2007, ISBN 9780415419901. It was reviewed for ESCalate by Catherine Lee of the Aga Khan University.This book addresses the challenges and trends associated with internationalising higher education and investigates the themes of policy, assessment, learning, teaching, student...
- Book review: Understanding the international student experience
- This is a book review of Understanding the international student experience by Catherine Montgomery, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010, ISBN 9781403986191. It was reviewed by Liane Purnell of Newman University College on behalf of ESCalate. The book provides a ’detailed examination of the international experience from the student’s point of view…. and explores how learning and development is much more than simply what goes on in the...
- Book Review: Academic Writing
- The book ‘Academic writing from paragraph to essay’ is a combination work and textbook which is aimed at non-native English speakers who seek to improve their academic writing. It is targeted primarily at university-level students with an intermediate ability in English as a foreign language and can be used either in class or as a self-study book
- Book Review: The International Student's Guide: Studying in English at University
- This is a new book in the ‘SAGE Study Skills Series’ and the target audience is overseas students who are studying at a University where English is the medium of teaching – the book has a specific focus on students studying at a University in the United Kingdom. The aim of the book is to provide ways of learning, improving English, making the most of your strengths and working in seminars and groups. The text focuses on both the needs of the...