Even though Chinese universities are fantastic, I can totally appreciate the desire for students to want to study overseas, there is definitely a benefit beyond the purely academic.
I would encourage them to maybe not go the US though. Other countries in Asia would probably be my first choice. South Africa and Egypt also have some very good schools. Even Europe has some of the same issues, but at least you are less likely to be shot.
I wonder if Russia might start becoming a popular option. Education system still retains a lot of its Soviet roots, so it's pretty solid.
It's actually been pretty popular a choice for Japanese students here. Russian remains a very popular language to study. It's obviously a close neighbor (technically the closest) and was one of our biggest trade partners prior to the sanctions.
I am not sure if recent events have changed that much though, as we tend to follow US's lead in most things.
Russia is actually a country I’m considering studying my PhD in, I’ve been told staying in Canada isn’t my best option and I should go overseas. Hopefully the war will have fizzled out by that point.
There's a pretty good chance the war starts coming to a close this year. The west is basically tapped out in terms of what it can send, and Ukraine is in no position to pursue the war on its own. I expect that Europe will start seeing a lot of political change this year too. People are sick of the war and current Atlanticist parties are likely to start losing power. Relations between Russia and the west are likely to keep being sour though, but perhaps it'll at least return to a semblance of civility.
I can’t believe I forgot about the lingering tensions that may be present. I hope that doesn't affect my chances but I’ll accept it if it does. I hope the war ends soon, the only people I see still supporting it are NAFO, some scattered individuals on Twitter, and unfortunately some world leaders (mainly in my country…).
The sooner the whole thing ends the better, no question about that. My expectation that in the long run, Europe will find a way to get along with Russia because cutting Russia out hurts too much economically. The question is how long the current Atlanticist ideology will last. Will be interesting to see what happens during the elections, and where things go from there.
Russian education has suffered a lot of reforms aimed at making it more similar to Western model and it was pretty underfunded for 30 years, so it is not really great, just okay-ish.
It's not what it used to be, but it's still far better than what we see in the west. For example, every time there are math or programming olympiads, Russia tends to dominate them. So, a country of around 143 million is able to consistently beat a billion people from the western education system.
The student said that customs officer coerced to sign documents saying that she had entered the US illegally and that she agreed with her own deportation.
This was signed under duress, but never sign documents like this if you can help it. Don't even sign a document saying "person X talked to me about Y", it can be used against you in court later to say that you agreed to Y at the time.
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