ENGLISH RESEARCH PAPER 12 English research paper Name of the student Name of the University Author note

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English research paper
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author note

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Education is one of the essential parts of everyone’s life that helps the person to
enlighten himself. It not only aids to grow the academic knowledge, moreover, makes the
person a good human being. Generally, it is desired by every student to pursue their higher
studies from world’s best colleges or universities and hence, they go to the different parts of
the world to get proper education. Studying abroad is not only fulfilling academically and
culturally, but also aids to foster the personal growth (Lantis & DuPlaga, 2015). It enhances
the intercultural communities among different students and thus rows the seed of harmony in
the mind of a student. Canada being one of the developed countries has a well-established
education system that attracts many students from abroad every year (Altbach, 2015). The
number of students coming to Canada for higher studies, are increasing rapidly due to various
reasons, however, one of the important questions related to this topic is still persistent that,
how international study in countries like Canada is worthwhile to students, academically and
personally. In this essay, a research will be done based on this question and it will be
analysed further to find out how students academically and personally benefited from
studying abroad.
Education system in Canada – Canada has a well-developed education system that
makes it one of the countries that has highest literacy rate in the world. According to the
statistics, among every 10 Canadian adults, 6 are literate and 25 among 64 people have post-
secondary education, making it one of the countries that has highest literacy rate in the world
(Belley, Frenette & Lochner, 2014). The country has a well-established education ministry
that discuss the matters connected with the education minutely and Council of Ministers of
Education take care the legislation regarding the education. There are many factors in
education system of Canada, which influence students to visit this place and to learn over
there. These factors are - opportunities to study and learn in a different way, good career
opportunities, personal development, gathering knowledge about different cultures and

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people, opportunity to travel in a new place and so on (Beine, Noël & Ragot, 2014). With the
vast scope of higher studies, Canada attracts many students from abroad.
Figure 1: Adult literacy rate
Source: (van der Heide et al., 2013)
International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) suggests that Canada is one of the
developed nations that rank fourth in terms of adult literacy rate in the world as depicted by
the figure 1 (van der Heide et al., 2013). Moreover, the above figure demonstrate that Canada
is far developed in the case of education, compared to developed countries like US, Australia,
Germany and others.
Coming to the education structure of Canada it can be seen that there are more than
10,000 graduate and undergraduate programs available in the universities of Canada
(Paulsen, 2014). For the domestic students, Canadian Universities offer Bachelor’s degree,
Master’s degree and the Doctoral degrees. When it comes to international students, then the
Canadian universities offer certificate and diploma programs. Average yearly enrolment of
Canadian colleges varies from 2,000 to 62,000 students making it one of the countries that
has highest amount of post secondary literacy rate (Li & Jones, 2015).

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Figure 2: Primary education enrolment rate by gender
Source: ("Canada, UNESCO UIS", 2017)
Figure 2 shows that primary education enrolment rate is more than 90% and the figure
is consistent since 2006, making Canada to have highest literacy rate ("Canada, UNESCO
UIS", 2017). Gender discrimination in education is absent in Canada that gives the country a
chance to have balanced growth. Moreover, the above figure suggests that Canadian parents
prefer to send their children to the school since their childhood. Government programs
encourage the parents to send their children to the school and regional government prefer to
put up their own schooling system, which is same throughout the territories of Canada.
Canada has more than 36 universities among which 8 universities are private institutes
and remaining is government funded that provides health, psychological, career supports
(Hawkins, Langford & Saunders, 2015). These factors drive both the domestic and
international students to visit Canadian universities.
Difference of education system in Canada with other nations – Canada is one of
the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries that have a
well-mannered and properly structured education system. The country not only ranks high in
the Education at a Glance report from OECD but also ranks fourth in terms of literacy rate in
the world (van der Heide et al., 2013). According to the OECD survey, the country expenses
9,130 US$ annually on the primary education and it is quiet high than the OECD average,