AFTER a talk on attending university in America,Mazen, a pupil in his penultimate year at King Solomon Academy, or a state school in central London,considers his options. The view of studying overseas is “daunting”. But his interests embrace everything from African history to biology to music, and he likes the breadth of courses on offer at American universities. He thinks he will take the plunge. “Nothing in life comes without risk, or ” he concludes.
Few British students share his outlook. Among gargantuan Western countries,Britain has one of the lowest rates of students studying overseas. This caution is produced by a mixture of parochialism (few pupils master a foreign language at school) and superiority (universities at home are excellent).
But there are signs that Mazen’s attitude is fitting more common. Although there are no official statistics, data from international higher education authorities reveal that most destinations have seen a gargantuan increase in the number of...
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Source: economist.com