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Retaining International Students for Further Degree in Malaysia: Quality Matters

Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

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Title Retaining International Students for Further Degree in Malaysia: Quality Matters
 
Creator Foo, Chuan Chew
Ismail, Russayani
Lim, Hock Eam
 
Subject Higher education, international student, retention, investment motive, consumption motive
I2; I23
 
Description As the world is becoming more globalised, cross boarder education continues to preoccupy the agenda of internationalisation of higher education with more and more countries participating as education providers. Competition for students requires the education providers to tighten up their quality assurance and governance as to ensure their sustainability in years to come. The shift of intention from merely focusing on internationalisation as a source of revenue generation to a more diverse objective of talent development that promotes research and innovation is imperative. Thus, the ability of the host countries to attract high quality students and retain them for further degree is nevertheless essential. Despite huge literatures concentrating on identifying the factors that can attract potential international students to enrol in host countries, few known studies however were carried out to identify the factors that able to attract the currently enrolled international students to remain in the same host countries for further degree. Using the data of 753 international students, gathered from a sample of few universities in Malaysia, this particular study employs a Logit Model in an attempt to identifying the educational choice motives that influence the decision of the currently enrolled international students to remain in Malaysia for their higher level of study.  The finding shows that the consumption motive dominates the investment motive, suggesting that students’ decision to remain in Malaysia for further degree is highly related to the consumption motive as compared to the investment motive. A comfortable study environment, high quality services and facilities, excellence faculty members and easy access for information regarding matters related to education in Malaysia significantly influence the students’ decision to stay for further degree. The findings from this study lend support to a commonly held view that the quality of education matters. 
 
Publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
 
Contributor Research and Innovation Management Centre UUM
 
Date 2016-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ejournal.ukm.my/jem/article/view/9731
 
Source Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia; Vol 50, No 1 (2016): Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia; 133-144
0126-1962
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ejournal.ukm.my/jem/article/view/9731/4748