Talk:International student

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Content should be merged with Foreign students. olivier 09:54, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

User:Jiang merged. --Menchi 23:44, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Interesting article. I live in the Vancouver area and I remember both those depressing incidents. --Sewing 23:56, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Dangers section

Although I too find the information about the tragic attacks interesting, I find it a difficult fit to the article as a whole. The assertions about dangers posed to international students seem to have been written back from the two specific incidents which can hardly be unique. There is not really any evidence presented to suggest that these incidents are any different from attacks on females anywhere, anytime. 22 Dec 2004 signed


I totally agree with you, it was never stated they were attacked because they were foreigners and so should be removed- 13 june


The danger section as it stands today makes very little sense if any. In particular the sentence: "Dangers are caused both by natives of their host country and those from their own ethnicity." is completly nonsensical. First it makes a false distintion between "natives of their host country" and "those from their own ethnicity" forgetting the very definite possibility that the categories may overlap. And then,if the categories were exclusive and exahusted the possible sources of dangers as seems to be implied by the author, it is the logical equivalent of the following proposition:

"Falling toasts upon a flat surface may come to rest buttered side up or buttered side down"

Not much information contained in that.

I have deleted the whole section. If someone miss it, pls don't do a revert, write a new one.Mr.K. 08:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Difference between Foreign/International and Exchange Students

Since I don't know how things are in other countries, I'm too hesitant to be bold, however... I think a distinction needs to be made between Foreign/International Student and Exchange Student. My understanding is this:

  • International Students often apply directly to a university, pay fees to that university, etc. Thus, they can earn an entire degree from the University.
  • Exchange Students are students of a university in their home country(unless they are International Students, see above), who pay fees to their home university(Uni. "A"). They apply to go abroad with Uni "A", who recommends them to one of their partner universities (Uni "B"). In exchange for the student to go to A, a student from B comes to A. The student pays tuition fees to A, thus does not pay higher tuition than if they were studying at home. Living costs however, could be higher (or lower) than normal.
  • The key difference is that an exchange student only spends one or two semesters(up to a year) at B, but returns to A to receive their degree.

Thoughts, anyone? Dunro 04:09, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)

[edit] School/University International Students

The generalisation that international students are usually school pupils seems incorrect. I don't have the figures, but certainly in the UK there are many more international students found in universities in than schools. Rephrase the first sentence? Graham157.228.31.49 20:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent edits

I just reverted some recent vandalism, especially the one on October 2nd. I also replaced "American colleges and universities" with "Colleges and universities with a large number of international students" since there is no reason to claim that this is particular to American universities. Something that is still missing is additional info on international student tuition fees, since this is quite an issue, causing grumbling among international students, and has in the case of Brock University for example, caused a large drop in enrollment of international students.

[edit] Poor references.

This edit here [1] adds poor references. I plan to delete and re-tag that references are required. Ttiotsw (talk) 16:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)