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First sign of ending brain drain from China and India – US and UK Universities experience Sharp fall in foreign students
Things have changed. Students in Indian and Chinese Universities are far less enthusiastic in coming to UK and US for higher studies. Lack of job opportunities in US and UK, relatively better employment opportunities at home, higher cost of education and living expenses, extensive abuse and non-humanitarian conditions for alien students – all contribute to a shocking decline of Asian students in US and UK Universities.
The Universities in America depended upon Asian Graduate student teaching and research assistants. They were source of cheap labor (way below minimum wage in America) performing very vital teaching and research activities for the faculty.
The number of students from China signing up to courses has fallen by about 50 per cent at some British institutions, according to a survey from Universities UK, the umbrella body for higher education. Admissions departments say there has been a greater decline in recruiting to post-graduate research posts and courses than to undergraduate programs.
Recruitment from China, Japan, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore, as well as the US, Norway and Turkey, has been adversely affected by increased visa extension costs and bad publicity surrounding changes to the immigration regime as well as the strength of sterling, UUK said.
The Asian students are scared to come to America and Britain. The Asian campuses are full of rumors of horror stories of what foreign students have faced after nine-eleven catastrophe. It is not easy to live as a foreign student from Asia in US or UK any more.
The soaring cost of education and lack of favorable perception about American or British degrees is also another factor.
”American companies do not care about degrees any more - they are shifting jobs to India and China in truck loads” says a student in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. “There is no need to go abroad, the heaven right now is sweet home”, says the student.
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