They are especially keen on studying in East Anglia
… it’s their incredible thirst for Norwich
Yeah I don’t get it.. they don’t integrate or do anything apart from eat in Chinese restaurants or study / go to uni. There is a huge amount in my city but you would never notice.. It’s quite strange
Probably because we dont ask too many questions about where the money to pay the fees came from.
At the end of a year teaching a class of Chinese students in London I asked them what the best place they’d visited had been – I was thinking maybe the British Museum, or any of the parks, Greenwich, Richmond, maybe the Science Museum, Buckingham Palace or Windsor, Camden or Notting Hill, the National Gallery, St Paul’s, Tower of London or any of the usual tourist attractions like Harry Potter World or Madame Tussauds.
There was a bit of chat and then the consensus – “Bicester Retail Park” because they’d been able to buy loads of discounted sunglasses and handbags etc.
Firstly, it’s trendy. Coming back from the UK with a certificate from a British uni is going to look really good in China. On top of this, it doesn’t make too much difference if it’s from a top Russell Group uni, or a less prestigious one.
Also, Chinese kids from upper middle class families might fuck up in high school, preventing their progress into the top Chinese universities. Their families get them tutored up in English and sent abroad, where any dodgy history won’t make a difference.
Lastly, they can get a BA in 3 years and an MA in 1. In the US it takes years longer.
In the UK a Bachelors degree takes 3 years and a Masters 1 year. In America those take 4 and 2 years respectively. Therefore, the UK saves time and money. Chinese students are smart, so it seems.
Our university education is abysmal compared to the rest of the world. It’s so much easier to get a decent looking degree with very little work compared to other countries. Which means the mediocre students that would never get a degree in China can gain a 2:1 honours from a Uni that “looks good”, go home and get a decent job. Rather than leave school and go straight into a shit job.
Source: spent a good deal of my life in academia, travelling abroad and comparing experiences with other students.
Because they love intergrating with the other students!
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They are especially keen on studying in East Anglia
… it’s their incredible thirst for Norwich
Yeah I don’t get it.. they don’t integrate or do anything apart from eat in Chinese restaurants or study / go to uni. There is a huge amount in my city but you would never notice.. It’s quite strange
Probably because we dont ask too many questions about where the money to pay the fees came from.
At the end of a year teaching a class of Chinese students in London I asked them what the best place they’d visited had been – I was thinking maybe the British Museum, or any of the parks, Greenwich, Richmond, maybe the Science Museum, Buckingham Palace or Windsor, Camden or Notting Hill, the National Gallery, St Paul’s, Tower of London or any of the usual tourist attractions like Harry Potter World or Madame Tussauds.
There was a bit of chat and then the consensus – “Bicester Retail Park” because they’d been able to buy loads of discounted sunglasses and handbags etc.
Firstly, it’s trendy. Coming back from the UK with a certificate from a British uni is going to look really good in China. On top of this, it doesn’t make too much difference if it’s from a top Russell Group uni, or a less prestigious one.
Also, Chinese kids from upper middle class families might fuck up in high school, preventing their progress into the top Chinese universities. Their families get them tutored up in English and sent abroad, where any dodgy history won’t make a difference.
Lastly, they can get a BA in 3 years and an MA in 1. In the US it takes years longer.
In the UK a Bachelors degree takes 3 years and a Masters 1 year. In America those take 4 and 2 years respectively. Therefore, the UK saves time and money. Chinese students are smart, so it seems.
Our university education is abysmal compared to the rest of the world. It’s so much easier to get a decent looking degree with very little work compared to other countries. Which means the mediocre students that would never get a degree in China can gain a 2:1 honours from a Uni that “looks good”, go home and get a decent job. Rather than leave school and go straight into a shit job.
Source: spent a good deal of my life in academia, travelling abroad and comparing experiences with other students.
Because they love intergrating with the other students!