The Politics of Studying Abroad
The Expat Survey explores the approaches of different nations to tertiary education policy. The last article in this series was dedicated to the student experience when experienced abroad. Their time is shown to be as enlightening as it is daunting, it ain’t easy. Tina Quick, a specialist in third culture therapy has been quoted saying: ‘the same sad, familiar story over and over again: I don’t fit in here, I don’t belong, I can’t connect with anyone.’ I don’t think our findings exactly matched that of Quick’s, anecdotes have shown students are as likely to immerse and get