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Examining the relationships between quality assurance, training need and choice of study destination: a study of Nigerian students in UUM

Several studies identified quality of education as a major criteria influencing international student’s choice of study destination. But only recently has it seems to have gain a huge momentum by emerging as a theme which involves empirical studies.However, despite such momentum previous studies do...

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Main Authors: Usman, Abbo, Romle, Abd Rahim, Qader, Mohammed Mustafa
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LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling my.uum.repo.220422017-05-15T02:04:14Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/22042/ Examining the relationships between quality assurance, training need and choice of study destination: a study of Nigerian students in UUM Usman, Abbo Romle, Abd Rahim Qader, Mohammed Mustafa LB2300 Higher Education Several studies identified quality of education as a major criteria influencing international student’s choice of study destination. But only recently has it seems to have gain a huge momentum by emerging as a theme which involves empirical studies.However, despite such momentum previous studies do not provide sufficient evidence linking quality assurance and international student’s choice of study destination.This paper therefore presents a study of international student’s perception of higher education quality assurance practices, as well as how it affects their choice of study destination.The paper tries to examine how training needs play a role in influencing such choice also. The paper through descriptive analysis identified six dimensions of quality assurance in education: “Tangibles” “competence” “attitude contends;” “delivery;” and “reliability” as well as three dimensions of training needs such “occupational” “organizational” and “individual” needs. Hence it present the inter-relationship between quality assurance, training needs and choice of study destination using the above nine dimension; it concludes with Implications and recommendations to stimulate further studies on study destination choice by the international students from other countries especially from the Arabian and the middle-east. EconJournals 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/22042/1/IJEFI%205%28S%29%20%202015%20%201-6.pdf Usman, Abbo and Romle, Abd Rahim and Qader, Mohammed Mustafa (2015) Examining the relationships between quality assurance, training need and choice of study destination: a study of Nigerian students in UUM. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 5 (S). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2146-4138 http://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1334
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Usman, Abbo
Romle, Abd Rahim
Qader, Mohammed Mustafa
Examining the relationships between quality assurance, training need and choice of study destination: a study of Nigerian students in UUM
description Several studies identified quality of education as a major criteria influencing international student’s choice of study destination. But only recently has it seems to have gain a huge momentum by emerging as a theme which involves empirical studies.However, despite such momentum previous studies do not provide sufficient evidence linking quality assurance and international student’s choice of study destination.This paper therefore presents a study of international student’s perception of higher education quality assurance practices, as well as how it affects their choice of study destination.The paper tries to examine how training needs play a role in influencing such choice also. The paper through descriptive analysis identified six dimensions of quality assurance in education: “Tangibles” “competence” “attitude contends;” “delivery;” and “reliability” as well as three dimensions of training needs such “occupational” “organizational” and “individual” needs. Hence it present the inter-relationship between quality assurance, training needs and choice of study destination using the above nine dimension; it concludes with Implications and recommendations to stimulate further studies on study destination choice by the international students from other countries especially from the Arabian and the middle-east.
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title_full Examining the relationships between quality assurance, training need and choice of study destination: a study of Nigerian students in UUM
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