TY - JOUR
T1 - Employment of international education graduates
T2 - Issues of economy and resistance to change
AU - Jonbekova, Dilrabo
AU - Kim, Tatyana
AU - Kerimkulova, Sulushash
AU - Ruby, Alan
AU - Sparks, Jason
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Nazarbayev University, Faculty Development Grant. The number of the grant award is 240919FD3930 This article summarises a portion of findings from the authors' research project entitled ?Giving back to one's country following a government scholarship: comparing in-country and expatriate graduates contribution to socioeconomic development in Kazakhstan' funded by Nazarbayev University. The authors thank group members Zakir Jumakulov, Yevgeniya Serkova, Diana Akhmet, Nadezhda Ponamaryova and Zhanar Mazbulova for their contribution to the study. The authors also thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their comments on previous drafts.
Funding Information:
This research was funded by Nazarbayev University, Faculty Development Grant. The number of the grant award is 240919FD3930
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Higher Education Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - The use of international scholarship programmes is part of a long-standing approach to human capital development in many developing and middle-income countries that finance studies at universities abroad and locally. Yet, many scholarship alumni struggle to thrive in their home country and encounter numerous difficulties in their transition to the job market. This paper examines the employment experiences of Kazakhstan's government scholarship alumni in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields and identifies the challenges they encounter navigating the labour market. Our analysis of 45 interviews demonstrated that although alumni hold a positional advantage in the job market and many succeed, there are also many alumni whose employability and career success are impeded by an intersection of socioeconomic and cultural factors, intergenerational clashes and scholarship programme regulations. The implications for scholarship programmes and government policy goals are discussed.
AB - The use of international scholarship programmes is part of a long-standing approach to human capital development in many developing and middle-income countries that finance studies at universities abroad and locally. Yet, many scholarship alumni struggle to thrive in their home country and encounter numerous difficulties in their transition to the job market. This paper examines the employment experiences of Kazakhstan's government scholarship alumni in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields and identifies the challenges they encounter navigating the labour market. Our analysis of 45 interviews demonstrated that although alumni hold a positional advantage in the job market and many succeed, there are also many alumni whose employability and career success are impeded by an intersection of socioeconomic and cultural factors, intergenerational clashes and scholarship programme regulations. The implications for scholarship programmes and government policy goals are discussed.
KW - Central Asia
KW - employability
KW - international education
KW - international scholarship programmes
KW - Kazakhstan
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U2 - 10.1111/hequ.12321
DO - 10.1111/hequ.12321
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103401987
SN - 0951-5224
VL - 75
SP - 618
EP - 633
JO - Higher Education Quarterly
JF - Higher Education Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -
