Push me or I will be pulled

It is not a secret that most of the students would like to study abroad. It becomes a worldwide tendency to be ‘international student’ with ‘international experience’.  There are different reasons for it that push or pull students to study abroad.

     Foreign students can be pushed, if the existing system of tertiary education of home country is found poor and they are seeking to get a new cultural and intellectual practice. Another reason for students to be pushed is concerning with better job perspectives in the future. Moreover, students can be pulled to leave home country to study, because of the high quality of foreign higher education institutions, as well with learning new language (Perna et.al, 2014). Does it mean that those factors play an important role in making decision of the students? I think they are the main factors in making decision about the destination to study overseas.

      It is not surprising that most of those students are from poor or not so developed countries. If the educational system of your country has ‘flaws’, it is understandable why students unsatisfied with it and aimed to cross the border of home country to study abroad. Altbach (1991) also suggests that there are pull and push factors taking into consideration of third World students who are most inspired to be involved in the context of foreign study.

      In my opinion, the flaw of foreign students studying outside of their origin country will be increasing year by year, as a rate of profit is so high, especially for receiving countries. While there is a taste of profit, foreign students will be so welcomed to study in those host countries. Host countries seem to think like that: “Wherever you are my dear, foreign student and while the trump card of globalization and internationalization are in our hands, you will be always pulled or we makes your country push you to study in our area!”   

Reference

Perna, L. W., Orosz, K., Jumakulov, Z., Ashirbekov, A.,  & Kishkentayeva, M. (2014).

       Understanding the programmatic and contextual forces that influence participation in

       a government-sponsored international student-mobility program. Springer

       Science+Business Media Dordrecht.