Posted on 05/07/2024 8:33:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The world's two most populous nations, China and India, have the highest numbers of students studying overseas.
Statista's Anna Fleck reports that, according to data published by UNESCO, more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad in 2021. India’s total was close to half of this, with around 508,000 students living in other countries.
Following some way behind come Vietnam, Germany and Uzbekistan.
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The United States was the largest destination country for students studying abroad with over 833,000 there in 2021. It was followed by the United Kingdom (nearly 601,000), Australia (around 378,000), Germany (over 376,000) and Canada (nearly 318,000).
This data was published as part of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) 2024 World Migration Report, which provides an overview of the global state of migration using the latest available data, published Tuesday. This ranges from data on asylum seekers fleeing war to economic migrants seeking labor opportunities, and as this chart shows, to students living abroad.
According to the report, the total number of internationally mobile students has been on the rise over the last two decades. UNESCO data reveals that where 2.2 million students were studying abroad in 2001, that figure had climbed to 6.39 million students in 2021.
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They were working that much because they have to play catch-up to all the other students. There is a lot of cheating to get into US universities. They study four times more than US students to get the same grades. Chinese culture punishes failure so they never test anything. My son was a researcher in a university Ag lab when he was in high school. It’s mindless drone work.
I can relate as I was a chemistry major. Most of our lab assistants were graduate student foreigners.
One in particular I don’t think understood any English at all. He was a pleasant Chinese kid. He would always answer a question by thinking for a moment, then saying “yes” with a smile. Nothing more.
Being the rascal that I am, one day I decided to test him. I asked him a nonsensical question: “After I turn in my lab report, can I melt all the beakers at my station?”
He thought for a moment. “Yes”.
> There is a lot of cheating to get into US universities. <
And a lot of cheating once you’re there. The fraternities and sororities are well-organized in that regard. As I noted in my post #23, I was a chemistry major. (Part-time while I was a security guard. Free tuition.)
Quick story: It’s the first exam in freshman chemistry. Maybe 100 students including me are present in a large lecture hall. The professor caught a student cheating. The professor screamed and yelled as the cheater slunk out of the room. “I’m going to get you expelled!”
Years later I found out that the cheater was a plant. The professor set the whole thing up to deter anyone else from cheating. Scared straight, eh?
Fraternities just have test databases. There are only so many questions you can ask. Students from China will use any advantage they can. A friend proctored an SAT exam. He sat at a desk at the front of the room. When the test began, he moved to the back of the room. The students from China lost their minds because they were all in the back.
When I was in school, we had assigned seating for the SAT but I think that went away.
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