Studying Abroad
Title: Studying Abroad
Specific Purpose: To enlighten my audience about studying abroad
Thesis Statement: Today I want to share what I’ve learned about studying abroad
Introduction
Attention: Studying abroad has been a quench to many. Anyone given the opportunity will go for abroad studying rather than studying in ones country. People take studying abroad opens you a new world, and wider job market. It is however important to consider the effects and relevance of these abroad studies on your career life, social life and the impacts they bring to a country whose citizens study abroad.
Thesis: For this lesson I want to share what I have learnt about studying abroad and the impact to individuals and to a country.
Preview: We need to follow closely the population that opt to study on abroad, the impact of abroad studying on and individual and a country.
Body
- Refers to acquire knowledge on a certain field on another country other than your own country.
- People go to study abroad for the following reasons:
- Mostly people opt to study in countries which have been ranked the best in offering studies in certain fields. For example India has been ranked the best country offering medicine studies, therefore many people majoring in medicine will opt to study in India for them to have greater chances to be successful and reliable medicine persons.
- There is a mentality that one expands job market if one studies abroad. One can work in the country he/she has studied; his/her own country or any other country that values the studies from the country one has studied.
- Scholarships provided to students who have achieved best to further their studies on abroad is another contributing factor. One might have never dreamt of studying but he/she is given scholarship to do so. Through this many people have been given chances to study abroad.
- Other people find themselves studying away from their countries because their parents stay in those countries. It happens automatically that if you were born or stay in a particular country, definitely you will go to school in that particular country.
- Some other people do not value the studies of their own country and therefore they get satisfaction by studying in other countries.
- These are some of the reasons why people might find them abroad. As the saying goes, everything has its own advantages and disadvantages, studying abroad are not exempted. We will therefore look at these two sides of studying abroad.
- Advantages of studying
- Studying, in countries which do best in the field of your study makes one more competent, reliable, and effective in his/her field of study.
- Studying widens ones job market. The person can work in his own country, the country he/she has studied in and other countries valuing the studies fro the country one has studied.
- Studying helps solve the overcrowding and over reliance of resources in a particular country. For example learning institutions and learning materials respectively.
- The people who study abroad become more civilized.
- Finally, studying helps a country to get more professionals for certain fields which they could not offer.
- Disadvantages
- Studying makes people to abandon their cultures and start upholding the foreign culture from where they study.
- Many who study end up working on those countries, hence depriving their countries professionals.
- When these people return back to their countries, they introduce the foreign culture hence eroding their own country culture.
Conclusion
Summary statement: To further understand on this issue, go to the web look at how many people are struggling to acquire scholarships to abroad studies, the scholarships offered and why government support the whole thing and how many people from your country who studied abroad and where they are currently working.
References
Byram, M., &Feng, A. (2006). Living and studying abroad: Research and practice. Buffalo: Multilingual Matters Ltd.