Thursday, May 29, 2014

IS U.S. EDUCATION LURING LESS FOREIGN STUDENTS?

By Karin Fischer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 25, 2014
SEOUL — Each fall, thousands of students from South Korea arrive on American campuses. They come from a culture that views education as the key to success, where mothers and fathers save to send their children overseas. On top of tuition, parents shell out for test prep and cram schools, supplemental English lessons and recruitment agents to shepherd them through an unfamiliar admissions process. In the past, only a small elite pursued advanced degrees internationally; today, many sons and daughters of the nation’s emergent middle class go abroad.
This is South Korea but the description could fit  China equally well.
Recently however, after years of robust enrollment increases, graduate applications from South Korea to American colleges have fallen off; and last year the number of South Korean undergraduates in the United States also dropped. Fewer South Koreans study in the United States now than did five years ago.
South Korean students who study abroad often find that they lack the local connections to get a job when they return home, says Jaeha Choi, director of student recruitment and admissions at SUNY-Korea, the State University of New York’s campus outside Seoul, South Korea’s capital.Continue reading the main story


Softening interest from South Korea, the third-largest supplier source of international students to the United States, could serve as a warning to American institutions that have grown to rely on tuition revenue from China, the largest source.
The two countries differ in politics, population and economics, but they share common educational traditions and motivations for sending their students abroad, and their international mobility patterns have followed corresponding trajectories.
“The Chinese market is very much like Korea 10 years ago,” said Jekook Woo, an education consultant in Seoul.
And recent hand-wringing in China about the return on a pricey foreign degree echoes qualms among South Korean families that overseas study is no longer the guarantee of economic security that it once was.
For decades, sending top students abroad was a pragmatic choice for both countries, a recognition of the lack of educational capacity at home, particularly at the graduate level. But as their economies and educational systems changed, so did the reasons for foreign study.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

As the US Education system continues to become more socialistic and less academically challenging....foreign nations will go somewhere else. Then we can import more illegals and educate them as American Democrats....expecting everything free and no effort....as we see locally now. How can Julieta Garcia head up an academic think tank when she has failed our children and educated few to their full capabilities. For local educators, including Juliet, its about warm butts in the seats and money....not academic challenge.

Anonymous said...

Yes.

Anonymous said...

It's perfect ------- because she THINKS like a TANK.

Anonymous said...

Aunt J's obsession: it is all about the money.

Anonymous said...

An old Naco saying: "ya no le cabe el dedo Gordo en el Chiquito". El filósofo de Guëmes.

Anonymous said...

A secret memo released by the NSA revealed that Aunt J was smuggled to the USA by Mescaleros thru El Pasp. Her DNA also revealed Naco genes. She has now been recognized as one of the world's most powerful Nacollettes

Anonymous said...

The govt just released shocking news . They are changing the National Security Agency's name (NSA) to the Naco Security Agency. The new NSA has already profiled all the faces in Nacoville. Da Mayor's mug was the first.

Anonymous said...

Fret not Nacoville. Aunt J , one of the world's leaders will lead the way to salvation and climate change. Adela will be by her side for inspiration.

rita