The ideology and implementation of globalisation have improved every sector of the country's economic growth. The education sector is one of them. Students are creating opportunities to study and work abroad. Students from all over the globe are not willing to compromise on the quality of education. They want to migrate and study where the scenario is most appropriate for them.Quality of education, cultural diversity, and professional opportunities encourage young generations to study in the world’s prestigious institutions.
Studying abroad is not only beneficial to students but is also advantageous for the university as well as the country. The idea of globalisation and diversity is widely spread and balanced over the decades. The students have become more serious about their studies. They want to gain knowledge from the best universities in the world. The diversity of the environment helps them to grow into better personalities and find more opportunities.
The university also wants other students from across the globe to come and enrol in their institution. It will create their students to learn from people around the globe and break all the stereotypes. It also leads to nullifying other issues related to religion and other discriminations. It is beneficial for a country that their young generations are capable of thinking more broadly.It provides a good opportunity to understand international issues foreign affairs, and immigration issues.it creates more understanding of cuisine, cultures, etc.
Cross-culture communities create a more adaptable environment, can produce better listeners, and impose creative thinking while understanding. It creates a personal and professional connection between both parties. Institutes have established a separate international department for the ease of foreign students and a marketing department to increase the numbers of foreign students. These departments want to attract more students to come over and increase the richness of culture, revenue, and academics.
International students are important not just to the growth of domicile country’s students but also. The increasing number of international students helps the university to grow and the population of the university will also increase, eventually, the quality of education will improve. International students also help to increase the revenue of the Institution. They help to become popular across the country, and the economy improves.
Usually, universities/institutions have high tuition fees for foreign students as compared to citizens of their country (almost 50%).
Here are some institutional benefits of international students:
- They promote an environment of harmony and these students enrich the diversity of institutions. National students learn to live with foreign students. Their interaction will widen their views. They learn about other nations and cultures. All of these will help them to become a potential person in a global world.
- They help other students on campus to gain cross-cultural experiences. environment. These create a cultural environment. Both parties will respect each other's culture and respect differences. One can learn new cuisine, new festivals, new holidays, and even languages.
- These students are the reasons universities are bound to conduct different types of the fest, cultural groups are formed and enrich the sources of learning. understanding each other's values will eventually reduce the hesitation and neglecting nature of students.
- Learning a new language and its traditions will promote new skills to both types of students and staff. Interaction in other languages will promote the popularity of the university.
- Discussion and debate conducted in classes will include views of international students. These students share their opinion on an issue that will help them to understand the world from a different perspective. This will increase thinking capacity and level of thought.
- These will also bring diversity to the field of research and different theories might help to utilise sources. University gets some fresh and new talents across the world, which will help them in research and get awards.
- Studying abroad also leads to several collaborations of the institute with other international institutes. It will benefit both bodies.
- Many universities have started many foreign student policies like scholarship programs to increase the number of international students.
- International students can contribute a portion to a country's economy by promoting their country on a global level. International students bring a package full of diversity, creative skills, language skills, cultural perspective, adaptability, and students of the home nation will learn. This will increase the social and cultural impact of the university and the country.
The unalarmed emergence of coronavirus resulted in the decline of students abroad, and fights and visa procedures also became difficult. But over time, countries started accepting international students with vaccination proof and basic health reports before entering the country. Rules and regulations may differ from country to country, some may impose necessary isolation/quarantine for a designated period.
Universities and institutions are trying to provide convenient and safe services to other national students to pursue education.
By Mithila Rathod
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