Many organisations now have an international perspective to them so they prefer to recruit people with an international perspective; but at the same time those who know the local context
“We talk about cost, we talk about lack of institutional and cultural support, we talk about curricular integration, but what we don’t talk about is the emotional state of students when they start to dip their toe into the study abroad process.”
I believe the main thing is that your team members and counsellors have their ethics right and they’re giving advice in good faith all the time.
Smart recruitment for me is catering for the next generation of the workforce who want to be working for a company or studying at a university with a vision, sharing the same values, where they can continue to cultivate their skills.
A four-week language program is like a four-week diet program. You work very hard for four weeks, that’s good. But when you return, you rebound. I’m more interested now in developing programs where students can actually practise: service learning, volunteering, training.
The number of universities in Indonesia is quite large – we have around 4,000 universities. But of course, only a few of them are ready for international cooperation.
We are trying to create critical thinkers and global citizens and part of that is the advocacy work to show that global learning is going to help you be factual.
Education is a form of resistance: a form of resistance that is required to engender a society that has basic rights and freedoms, where everyone has the right to learn
While working with agents requires effort – it requires communication, it’s not a completely passive recruitment channel – it is very much a cost effective one.
Ultimately the reason we do politics and policy is because you care about creating an environment where humans can flourish. Human rights is a part of that, education is part of that.
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