There has been limited research on finding effective ways to help international students overcome these challenges, despite numerous studies exploring the factors contributing to international student

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities – Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK (2015) · doi

  Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education.

  Keywords: higher education whilst changing landscape produced burgeoning literature internationalisation transnational student mobility past years still
• How to Develop Global Competence in Chinese Learners? Collaborative Online International Learning Versus Research-Based Self-Study (2025) · doi

  Abstract In the face of global change and imminent educational transformation, global competence has received widespread attention in the field of education, but the questions of whether existing internationalization models help to improve students’ global competence and which pedagogical practices are most effective remain unclear.

  Keywords: global competence abstract face change imminent educational transformation received widespread attention field education questions whether
• Perspectives from graduate students on effective teaching methods: a case study from a Vietnamese Transnational University (2018) · doi

  As a result, the Vietnamese government embraces international collaborations in higher education as a way to address educational needs; however, although research exists on policy implications and government priorities, very little is known about how students perceive the teaching methods provided at these collaborative transnational universities.

  Keywords: government result vietnamese embraces international collaborations higher education address educational needs exists policy implications priorities
• Public Diplomacy and Social Impact of Australian Student Mobility to the Indo-Pacific: Host Countries’ Perspectives on Hosting New Colombo Plan Students (2021) · doi

  While a significant body of the literature in international education has examined learning abroad from the student and academic perspectives, how host communities, especially in the Indo-Pacific, perceive the social impact of hosting students from an Anglophone country like Australia is underresearched.

  Keywords: significant body literature international education examined learning abroad student academic perspectives host communities especially indo
• Implementing International Virtual Elementary Classroom Activities for Public School Students in the U.S. and Korea. (2007)

  While many international online exchange projects have been conducted at schools to help expose students to the world and experience international collaborations, few studies have focused on both developing intercultural competence for elementary school students and discovering practical ways of implementing a cross-cultural exchange program into the public elementary school systems as well.

  Keywords: international exchange students elementary school online projects conducted schools help expose world experience collaborations focused
• Internationalization at home as a factor affecting intercultural competence. A study among Belgian university students (2022) · doi

  Research investigating to what extent ‘Internationalization at home’ (IaH) initiatives, as opposed to study abroad, affect the development of intercultural competence (IC) in students, especially in universities where the home student population is still mainly white, like at the university in focus in this paper, is scarce.

  Keywords: home investigating extent internationalization initiatives opposed abroad affect development intercultural competence students especially universities student
• Empowering International Students for Positive Social Risk-Taking in U.S. Higher Education (2026) · doi

  There has been limited research on finding effective ways to help international students overcome these challenges, despite numerous studies exploring the factors contributing to international students' disengagement, such as cultural and linguistic barriers and financial difficulties.

  Keywords: international students there limited finding effective ways help overcome challenges despite numerous exploring factors contributing
• Faculty Views on Internationalization in Kazakhstan (2022) · doi

  Despite the strong policy push for internationalization, research on the process of implementation of internationalization initiatives by institutions, as well as on the experiences with the internationalization of individual faculty members, students, and administrators remains rather scarce.

  Keywords: internationalization despite strong policy push process implementation initiatives institutions well experiences individual faculty members students