Monday, May 2, 2011

China on Top Again

As is true of many other fields, China seems to be on the top as far as international education is also concerned .

In the beginning of this decade , China was not in the reckoning of any student; but now most are studying humanities, followed by medicene. But a fresh data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development indicates that there are as many international students in China as there are in Australia or in Germany pushing her right up on the chart.

International students' market was in the grip of giants like United States, United Kingdom and France capturing almost 40% of it. There has been a sharp increase after 2000 and the number of students in search of higher education has increased by 65% totalling 4.3 million globally. International education has become one of the export houses and the national share among different countries keeps altering. For example the rise of Canada and China has led to a drop in United States's "singular hold" and the United Kingdom is inching forward to occupy No.1 spot.

The world goes to China to attract its young students to their colleges. But suddently last year China moved to a different level leaving India much lower in the rank and joined the big league and became one of the top six nations to host international students on its land.
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Country _//_ International Students
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US ::6,90,923
UK ::4,15,585
France:: 2,78,213
Australia:: 2,45,593
Germany ::2,44,776
China ::2,38,184
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Where is my dear country India in this chart?
India with about 22,000 international students has a tough task to crack when the Foreign Educatioin Providers Bill is passed. It will have to make Herculian efforts to attract more numbers if its aim is to transform this nation into an international center for higher education.

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