International education, the formation of capital and graduate employment: Chinese accounting graduates' experiences of the Australian labour market

Since the late 1970s, international education has steadily gained in popularity in China. An emerging middle class seeks to strengthen its position in China's rapidly stratifying society under its socialist market economy with the shift from wealth creation for all to wealth concentration for a few. Previously, a foreign qualification was considered a passport to success in either the host or home country's labour market. But the growing popularity of overseas study, coupled with the massification of the Chinese higher education, means Chinese international students are seeking to distinguish ... Show more

Authors: Blackmore, Jill; Gribble, Cate; Rahimi, Mark

Published: London, England, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2017

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