Educational Challenges Faced by International Students in the UK

LITERATURE REVIEW
(Educational challenges faced by international primary and secondary-level
students in the UK)

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Educational challenges faced by international primary and secondary-level students in the UK: A
Case-study of students who migrated from India to UK.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Educational challenges faced by migrant children
As Per the view of Aydin, H. & Kaya, Y. (2017) many people move to other country to
get secondary education. They prefer to complete their education from well-known university
or school so that they can get more career opportunities in near future. Students of India take
admission into UK universities. But it is not easy for learner to get adjusted into new
environment so easily. One of the major challenge faces by them is culture adaptation. As culture
of India and UK are far different from each other. Whenever they get migrant to other nation
then they have to struggle to learn or understand new language, rules, expectation of school
authorities etc. Whenever person’s environment gets changed then individual has to build
reciprocal relationship with new atmosphere which is not so easy. In such condition initially
students fail to get adjusted in new environment. Most of the time they feel alone and they fail to
pay attention on their studies. Sometimes migration from one nation to other affect educational
achievement of student badly as it becomes so difficult to understand study material of new
college or school hence initially person fails to get good score, by this way their secondary
academic performance gets affected.
It has been identified that lower socioeconomic status can have more negatively effects
on the educational result or outcome that being from migrant background. It also analysed that
high concentration of students and faced multiple challenges. In this way, it is useful for building
a good relationship between parents and educator, provide the better resources to school with
high concentration of migrated students.
Wang, H., Cheng, Z. & Smyth, R. (2018) stated that one of the major challenges faced by
migrant student is going through psychological distress. As they come to new location where
they stay alone hence initially, they fail to discuss their problems with anyone which affect their
psychological condition badly. In this way, person fail to make new relation and don’t interact
with other people. they always feel alone whereas they separate from their families. This
indirectly impact on their education. Behaviour adaptation and lack of familiarity with high
quality education system is another challenge face by Indian students when they come to UK for
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their primary and secondary level education. Coursework of UK is completely different from
India hence they face difficulty in understanding it and getting good academic score. If there is
linguistic biasness then social relationship of student will be affected hence person fails to
interact properly in classes and ask questions from teachers. In such condition individual fails to
understand the classroom concept properly which creates challenge in getting good marks in
exams.
According to Ma, Y. et.al. (2018) economic challenge is faced by Indian people when
they move to UK for their further education. Value of currency of India is lower than UK.
Parents have to spend a lot to send their kids foreign to complete their education. Poor economic
background of them creates difficulty for the students to get proper facilities in the new country
hence they feel distress hence keep themselves separate from others. Apart from this, if family
members of students are educated then it reflects into the academic performance of kid but if
parents are uneducated then most of the time children fail to do well in their studies. Educated
parents also encourage students to do well and try to resolve problems which are faced by
students during their admission in new college in new location. But if parents are not familiar
with the education system then they fail to handle issues of their kids which impact on the
personality of students.
As per the view of Bunar, N. (2017) Discrimination is the most common issue faced by
primary and secondary students in their educational period when they move to new country for
further education. In UK, Indian student don’t feel good because they cannot understand the
overall environment or culture, teacher don’t pay attention to the Indian student which
sometimes make them feel bad. Hence, they feel ignored which affect their educational
capabilities. If kids of India get discriminated in UK, then they avoid participating in educational
activities. After that they do not put much efforts to get high score because they do not like to
study in the new college or university.
Back ground of parents
As per Hunt and et.al. (2015) show that there is big effect to the nature of family
background on the performance of primary and secondary level students. The family background
plays a huge impact on the performance of student during education level because they are
generally accepted the quality of family interaction which are associated with the motivation as
well as achievement. For instance, it has found that there will be significant effects because
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