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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Choice of Study Destination, International Students, Quality Assurance
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Divisions:	School of Government
Depositing User:	Mr. Abd. Rahim Romle
Date Deposited:	15 May 2017 02:04
Last Modified:	15 May 2017 02:04
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22042

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