In the past when students did a university degree, they tended to study in their own country. Nowadays they have more opportunity to study abroad. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this development?

Studying abroad has been embraced by the community in the past few years. The number of foreign undergraduate in

well-developed

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region increases each year.

This

has its advantages and disadvantages which I will try to highlight a few in

this

text. Keeping in mind that

third

world

countries

have lots of brilliant young

people

, but due to the situations of their

countries

, might never amount to anything great in life, developed

countries

and a

lot

of governmental/non-governmental organizations (as well as individual citizens), have designed the scholarship systems that favour a

lot

of foreign

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. Some of these scholarships not only cover the tuition but

also

, the cost of accommodations, feeding, generally the cost of living.

This

has given lots of promising young public hope and a future. Studying abroad is

also

a form of tourism. In recent years, few

people

have moved from studying in just developed

countries

to choosing

countries

like the Caribbeans, Philipines etc. Students who

study

abroad, get to not just

study

but

also

experience the cultures of whatever

countries

they choose to

study

in. They get to eat the food, meet and have conversations with the

people

, sometimes, learn the language (safe to say studying abroad is making the world a global village). As earlier stated, studying abroad has its disadvantages too. Students who

study

in well-developed

countries

, almost never return to their home country.

This

is mostly the case for a

lot

of

people

. you would expect them to take whatever they learnt and use it for the development of their own

countries

but

this

almost never happens. When students graduate from some universities, they are sometimes offered internships which are usually too good to say no.

This

is one of the leading causes of the brain drain being experienced in a continent like Africa. The culture of certain

countries

is gradually becoming extinct as most of the young individuals are leaving these

countries

in droves in search of a better life. Putting into consideration the age some

people

are before they go to university, they might not be aware of a

lot

of the cultural norms in their home country. they go to these

countries

at

such

a young age, get exposed to the cultures and most times adapt to those. Like everything in life, there's always a positive and negative aspect to things but finding the balance is always key to making sure we have a better world.