Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The argument presented here states that each college student must spend at least one semester in a foreign country. Although the suggestion has some merits in terms of the completeness of a student’s education, it seems quixotic if we analyze the practical challenges to implement this.
The purpose of education is to ensure students acquire knowledge in order to become a better human being who can take wise decisions, not only pertaining to himself or herself, but also for the welfare of his or her own society as well as for entire mankind when necessary. If a student stays a considerable time in a foreign land, he will inevitably be exposed to certain unique aspects of that country that he wouldn’t have experienced sitting in his own country. For example, a student from a developing nation, when placed in a developed nation, may get to learn better due to better infrastructure and, sometimes, better quality of faculty. This enhances his level of education. On the other hand, when a student from a richer country stays in a poorer country for some time, he may not get better quality of education per se, but he may experience the other side of the world where people are bereft of minimum requirements for a living, and how to circumvent that. This may not directly enhance his curriculum-based education, but can actually make him a more knowledgeable human being. Moreover, in today’s globalized world, it will always be quite helpful to know culture of other countries, and the happenings outside one’s own nation, to be a successful decision maker.
However, there are many practical challenges to implement such an idea. Very few students will actually be able to sponsor their own travel to a foreign land, and a long stay there. So, this proposition will consume a huge amount of government budget. Given the number of students passing out each year in any country, this doesn’t seems pragmatic.
Furthermore, the way it happens today in international student community is, people physically sit in front of computer to undergo the required tests and get qualified for a foreign university. If it’s mandated for all students to move to a foreign land, this exercise becomes enormous with astronomical increase in number of students undergoing such tests.
Also, it will require very close coordination between two nations to ensure safe passage and stay for the students who will not have much idea about the place they are visiting. Given the increasing terrorism across the globe, who will take the responsibility of any untoward incident happening to them in the unknown location? Finally, it may be rewarding for students from a comparatively poorer nation to visit a richer nation for a semester. But the reverse may not be true. Therefore, it will eventually become the responsibility of a few developed nation to facilitate the study of students from other nations. That doesn’t seem to be a sustainable model.
To summarize, the idea that students should be studying abroad for a semester has some merits. But the challenges are insurmountable and the idea cannot be implemented. While it can be considered to make only a small number of excellent students travel and stay abroad for a while, mandating this for entire student community in any nation is not a practical proposition.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 573, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...in a developed nation, may get to learn better due to better infrastructure and, somet...
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Line 6, column 209, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...While it can be considered to make only a small number of excellent students travel and stay abro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, as for, at least, for example, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2804.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 552.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07971014493 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99460412312 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 904.5 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.1141233687 60.3974514979 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.833333333 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203104544157 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618422606889 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944509287633 0.0758088955206 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130595237177 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830043945028 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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