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Study abroad must be supported by mentoring, another study confirms
A new study from Purdue University confirms that university students who received group mentoring through the AFS Global Competence Certificate Program (GCC) during their semester abroad improved their intercultural competence…
Intercultural Education from the Inside Out
Podcast with Dr. Michael “Mick” Vande Berg. Mick has been a long-time friend and advocate of AFS Intercultural, Inc. Last week Linda Stuart had the chance to talk with Mick about his…
Purdue University Shares Intercultural Learning Gains for Short-term Programs
Over the past year, Purdue has conducted a study on intercultural learning gains on students doing short-term study abroad. In a telling summary, Katherine Yngve of Purdue shows that students…
Intercultural Competence is Today’s New Language Education
In February 2019, AFS/Sentio delivered an interactive workshop at Languages Canada’s 12th Annual Conference – “On Common Ground: A shared commitment to quality and integrity in Language Education” where over…
How is your HEI going about global competence development?
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it’s faced.” James Baldwin Most of us strive to promote intercultural learning and facilitate global…