Communication is an important thing in interacting with fellow humans. Intercultural communication is a communicatioan betweens peoples with different culture. In the process, constrains is often encountered oobstacles which can hinder the intercultural communication process. These constraints can obtained from the different cultural environment or from people’s psychologisc. One of the cultural communication problem is culture shock. This research will describe and explain the competence of Mercu Buana University’s overseas students to overcome culture shock in new environment. This research is an constructivist type, research that seeks to understand the people’s environment and develop subjective meaning. Moreover, this research is derciptive type with qualitative approach. Descriptive is aim to collect, explain, and summarize a data towards the subject under study. Qualitative is an indeep research and analysis of collected data. The research methods is case study taht collect, organize, and analyze data about certain cases. The research result is, everey overseas students has their own methods to handle culture shock and adapting with new environment. The first thing that became a challenge for overseas students is the different culture. The different culture make some overseas students feels worry, homesick, and culture shock. But they can handle the problems, they try to develop the competence of communication in order to adapt with new environment.

The study aims at exploring teachers and students’ perceptions towards learning autonomy, and how the learning autonomy affects their English language proficiency. The understanding of learning autonomy will help teachers apply appropriate pedagogical solutions for their students. The results show that participants seemed to have some aspects of autonomous learning, so they are considered as autonomous learners. Furthermore, learning autonomy correlated with teachers’ objectives and requirements, learning styles and learning strategies significantly. The highest correlation is for the relationship between learning autonomy and teachers’ objectives and requirements, followed closely by the association with learning styles and learning strategies. Hence, it is suggested that, the higher being awareness of understanding teacher’s purposes and requirements and better understanding how to create learning styles and adjust learning strategies students are, the more autonomous they are.

Population Census in India is conducted once in every ten years under the census Act 1948 and Census rules 1990. The last decennial census was conducted in the year 2011. The threebroad categoriesof Houselisting & Housing Census are Housing condition, Amenities and Assets. Here, an attempthas been made to use four different approach using Probability theory for finding Ranks based on these House listing and Housing Census Datafor rural areas. Although, there may be different Index developed to find such ranking, ranks obtained here using these different approaches are then compared and statistically tested. Statistical techniques like Probability, WeightedGeometric mean and Weighted Arithmeticmean,Correlation coefficient,and other Descriptive Statistical theories have been applied on this.

This paper examines the twin problem of older people and the HIV and AIDSscourge in Sub-Saharan Africa with reference to Kenya, particularly in the rural areas. Specifically, the paper assesses the direct and indirect effects of HIV and AIDSon the older people, and suggests policy and strategic measures that could be undertaken to empower older people to effectively respond to the HIV and AIDSscourge, in addition to their own problems of ageing. The central argument is that olderpeople in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly being infectedand affected by the HIV and AIDSscourge, and in some cases, forced to care fortheir adult HIV and AIDSsick children; and ultimately to their orphaned and vulnerable grandchildren. At the same time, the problems of the older people, who traditionally were largely supported by their working adult children, are worsening;as the adult children no longer effectively givesupport to their ageing parents, usuallyliving in the rural areas. There is need for Sub-Saharan African Governments, the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), theCharity Organizations, and other relevant institutions operating in the region, to include and support the older generation in programmes to fight HIV and AIDSscourge and empower the older people to effectively care for their grandchildren orphaned by AIDSscourgeas they address their own ageing problems. The paper is based on a review of various reports on old age problems and HIV and AIDSscourge, and its impacts on older people.