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.
When the mobile phone came out, it was not developed in Africa but many of the innovations in mobile technology actually happened faster in Africa and I think we have the same opportunity in education.
We as a country rely on being able to attract very bright, young people from around the world to live and work in New Zealand. We want to see many of these students remain here after graduation, filling skills gaps and contributing to our economy
It used to be people only thought about study abroad and the number of international students – that’s only one of six dimensions that we work with partly because not everybody is going to study abroad.
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