Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The assertion here presents a view that each college must make arrangement to send ll their students to a foreign land at least for one full semester. Although the suggestion has some merits in terms of the completeness of a student’s overall education, it seems quixotic if we analyze the practical challenges when it comes to implementation.
The purpose of education is to ensure students acquire knowledge in order to become better human beings, 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 homeland. For example, a student from a developing nation, when placed in a developed nation, may get to learn better due to better infrastructure and, possibly, 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 they 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 have a cross-cultural understanding, 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, or sponsorships from private organizations. Given the number of students passing out each year in any country, getting such funding is a humungous job, if not impossible.
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. Unhealthy competition among students will emerge, which is not good for an educational environment.
Also, with increased international traffic, it will impose much additional burden on all the organizations that are involved in such movements, including the relevant ministries of the two nations. Very close coordination will be needed 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 3, column 574, 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, possi...
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Line 11, column 210, 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 : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3158.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 611.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16857610475 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97176167858 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10963390465 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 305.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.499181669394 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 1012.5 704.065955056 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6090770731 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.461538462 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11538461538 5.21951772744 117% => 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 : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172403403825 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0488053716821 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062156578347 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107394510957 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052004737499 0.0667264976115 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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