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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected and continues to impact several areas of human lives and activities. With a particular focus on China, this reflection shares authors' observation on how COVID-19 may affect future trends of student mobility from and to the country. The reflection revealed that the impact of COVID-19 might not have a big negative impact on China. The declining interest of Chinese students to study abroad after COVID-19 will rather empower their home country. The reflection also revealed that the successful battle China has been leading and keeping the pandemic situation under control reassures international students to consider China as a protective destination for a future study plan. This study has relevant policy implications for understanding and informing international education actors of the change that may occur in student mobility trends and international higher education landscape due to COVID-19.

The shortage of teachers in secondary education sector in Cameroon is worrisome. This article examines the practices of teacher recruitment and retention in public secondary school in Cameroon and China by looking at managerial practices. The comparison aimed at finding out what Cameroon could learn from China. The literature review shows very limited comparative studies on teacher recruitment and retention practices. Most studies focused on single countries and particular issues or groups of teachers/schools. This study, however, involves two case studies, especially with China as a country of strong reforms habit. The study employs qualitative approach in which both document analysis and semi-structured in-depth interviews were examined. Documents, including policies, administrative files and trusted reports, depict a macro picture of teacher recruitment and retention in both countries. The interviews data, analysed thematically, aimed to support information from documents. There were 58 respondents participated in the study. The study found out many differences between the two systems. It argued that practices, such as decentralising teacher recruitment, establishing special/affirmative policies for teacher recruitment in underdeveloped areas, improving teachers' living conditions, cooperation between educational stakeholders in developed and disadvantaged areas, and urbanising rural areas' schools are all good experiences Cameroon might learn from China.

The number of countries engaged in providing international education has grown consistently over the years. Traditionally, European countries and the US have been regarded as the only dominant destinations for overseas students. However, recent studies indicated that several new countries have emerged as study destinations. China, one of them, is on the rise in hosting international students. Through a systematic document analysis method, this paper sought to figure out the trend and primary reasons why international students choose China for their study destination. Long-time considered the world's largest sending country, China counts today among the top largest welcoming countries worldwide. In contrast to the recent studies conducted in some reputed higher education institutions in China claiming Chinese universities' reputation as the most pulling factor, this study reveals that, apart from other non-negligible factors, economic reason remains the major pulling factor of international students.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected and continues to impact several areas of human lives and activities. With a particular focus on China, this reflection shares authors' observation on how COVID-19 may affect future trends of student mobility from and to the country. The reflection revealed that the impact of COVID-19 might not have a big negative impact on China. The declining interest of Chinese students to study abroad after COVID-19 will rather empower their home country. The reflection also revealed that the successful battle China has been leading and keeping the pandemic situation under control reassures international students to consider China as a protective destination for a future study plan. This study has relevant policy implications for understanding and informing international education actors of the change that may occur in student mobility trends and international higher education landscape due to COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]