China Studies Research Centre, La Trobe University
2:30-4:00pm Thursday 22 March
Room 318, Education 2 (ED2), La Trobe University
Chinese international students seek international education primarily to add value and improve their employment opportunities. The recent trend shows that Chinese international students are returning home to seek employment. Because little is known about La Trobe Chinese graduates’ employability experiences and their employment prospects in China, a qualitative method was adopted for this project. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in China (Beijing and Shanghai) in August – September 2017 with Chinese La Trobe alumni. This project contributes to the empirical understanding of the employment trends of Chinese graduates, while also providing recommendations on enhancing and facilitating employability skills of current Chinese students to match with the needs of Chinese employment practices and policies.
About the Speaker
Dr Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh, Early Career Development Fellow, Department of Management, Sport and Tourism, La Trobe University. Dr Singh’s expertise is in higher education with a particular interest on international students. Dr Singh also has extensive Australian teaching experiences at La Trobe, Monash and Melbourne University where she has taught range of Management subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.