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Challenges that International Students Face In Tertiary Studies

   

Added on  2020-03-01

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CHALLENGES THAT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FACE IN TERTIARY STUDIESExecutive summaryThis report tries to explore various challenges that the international students face in the foreignuniversities in their tertiary studies. The main challenges they face during their academic courseare cultural shock, challenges related finance management, time management, assessmentstrategies, language barriers, food and managing role relationship. The report tried to investigatewhat are the factors that lead the students face such challenges. Then it analyzes how thechallenges are eventually resulting in the international students’ poor academic performance.Finally the report tries to propose few recommendations that the universities and students canadapt in order to deal with those challenges and improve their performance.

CHALLENGES THAT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FACE IN TERTIARY STUDIESTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3The challenges the international students face in studying abroad:................................................3Cultural shock..............................................................................................................................3Finance management...................................................................................................................4Time management.......................................................................................................................4Assessment strategies..................................................................................................................5Language barriers........................................................................................................................5Diet Challenges............................................................................................................................5Managing the role relationship....................................................................................................6Recommendation.............................................................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8References........................................................................................................................................9

CHALLENGES THAT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FACE IN TERTIARY STUDIESIntroductionThe number of international students in several foreign universities is rapidly increasing.This report will focus on the various challenges that the international students are facing duringtheir study in the foreign universities. This resulted in increased number of students who are keento study abroad. As the contemporary world has experienced digital revolution and globalization,the interaction among various nations and cultures has increased in a significant manner(Staeheli, 2016). However, the large numbers of students who are coming to a new country arestruggling to adapt new unfamiliar culture and to become comfortable with the new environment.The cultural shock, the communication gap, distant relationship among students and teachers actas the key drivers in raising the questions (Trueba, Jacobs & Kirton, 2014). The other challengesthe international students mainly face are related to time management, assessment strategies andfinance management. The challenges the international students face in studying abroad:Cultural shockThrough their course of study the students are primarily facing the issue related their culturalshock. Culture is the student’s social behavior, customs or ideas of the community or society heor she belongs (Van Rij, 2017). Cultural shock can be defined as the disturbance ordisorientation the students experience by sudden changes in their way of life mainly caused byunfamiliar culture (D’Souza et al., 2016). The students come to new country; new culture andtreatment they get there also cause them to feel the disturbance. This has been proved all the newmembers in a new culture experience the cultural shock one way or other. As mostly the

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