Is studying abroad good for employment?

Objectively speaking, studying abroad is an important decision for everyone and even every family, especially for parents who want to send their children abroad for high school and college preparation. There are many factors to consider. In the past two years, some domestic media have reported many negative stories about the life of young international students abroad, which makes parents more hesitant when making decisions.

Juck Zhang, manager and senior consultant of Guangdong Kai Tak Education Shenzhen Branch, a well-known study abroad service organization, said that instead of paying attention to the advantages and disadvantages of studying abroad at a young age, parents might as well ask themselves: Why should I send my children abroad? As far as his personal understanding of the overall environment of foreign education is concerned, he believes that studying abroad, especially in Britain and Australia, has seven advantages.

Continuous evaluation system

In China, children are generally fixed for life after one exam. The college entrance examination, which is called "single-plank bridge" by many people, is extremely stressful for children. However, foreign high schools generally adopt the continuous evaluation system of peacetime performance, which is obviously more helpful for children to get a fair measure.

Greater competitive endurance

In recent years, the reality of employment has also made a large number of graduates in China bear enormous employment pressure after graduation, even facing unemployment, or have to join the employment force from a very low starting point. And this is what parents in the world never want to see. However, if you have experience in studying abroad, your child's own competitiveness and development stamina will be stronger, and you can have a higher career starting point.

Master authentic English

The younger a child is, the stronger his ability to imitate language is. After two or three years of high school education, children's English level can generally reach the level of domestic English graduates, and their practical ability will be stronger. Compared with the early foreign students (who mainly went abroad for master's degree at that time), they may have less hardships, but they will certainly be able to master more authentic English than their predecessors.

Flexible teaching methods

Foreign high schools are more flexible in choosing courses, which can teach students in accordance with their aptitude, encourage students to think independently and exert their creativity; In foreign countries, even minor students can choose courses according to their major and future interest in universities, which greatly mobilizes his/her enthusiasm for learning and makes it easier to get high marks and enter famous universities for further study.

The opportunity to attend a prestigious school

Peking University Publishing House once published a book "World Famous Schools", which listed famous schools in various countries. For example, the United States lists Harvard, MIT, Stanford and so on. Britain lists Oxford and Cambridge, and Australia lists Australia and Melbourne. Unfortunately, there is no mention of schools in China. However, if students choose the preparatory courses of famous foreign universities, they can easily enter world-class famous universities ranked higher than Tsinghua and Peking University, such as the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and the University of London.

Opportunities to emigrate overseas

Many people want to emigrate and develop abroad in the future. Studying abroad to get an overseas degree is undoubtedly an excellent springboard. If students finish high school or undergraduate courses locally, the chances of immigration and employment will be much greater.

Ability to live independently

Children studying abroad have exercised their ability to live independently, which is of great help to adapt to society in the future. Both theory and practice have proved that children's self-care ability is exercised, and the experience of studying abroad is undoubtedly of great value to children's studies, career prospects and the development of their own personality. "The hundreds of children we send out every year are definitely not better at self-care than their peers in China, but after going abroad for a period of time, students in winter and summer vacations come back, which makes us sit up and take notice. Some originally shy children are also willing to take the initiative to deal with people. Juck Zhang said, "It is very gratifying to see these changes." . "

Some people sum up the benefits of studying abroad as "three steps": learning a foreign language, getting a foreign degree and finding a good job abroad. But is the outside world really so ideal and beautiful? Does every child adapt to life in a foreign land? Especially those who are still young, I'm afraid I have to think twice.

Because many students' parents have never been abroad, they don't know the real situation abroad, and they see the bright side more. In order to realize children's dream of studying abroad or the future blueprint designed by parents for their children, they will spare no expense in all their savings or even lose everything. However, the moon in foreign countries is not rounder than that in China. The trip to study abroad is full of twists and turns, which brings loneliness, depression and hardship that can only be felt in China. Teenagers' outlook on life, self-reliance and self-control are not fully mature, and they are easily influenced by the outside world, resulting in some problems. If you get into bad habits, you are lured by bad people to take drugs, gamble and live together. As a result, parents spent a lot of money, but their children got into bad habits. Faced with the enormous pressure of study and life, middle school students are physically and psychologically immature, lacking rich experience and experience, and it is difficult to cope with the environment in a foreign land. Most of them are only children, lacking the ability and courage to live alone, which restricts their academic development.

Therefore, there must be a buffer stage for students to go abroad. China people should lay a solid foundation of China's traditional culture at home, and then study in western countries, so as to combine China's basic education with western advanced technology. Only in this way can we cultivate international talents with high comprehensive quality, all-round development of personality, creativity and cooperation spirit, and be able to explore knowledge independently. How to scientifically and reasonably solve many problems brought by studying abroad at a young age? This requires serious consideration and clarification of the following issues.

First of all, it must be clear that the purpose of studying abroad is not to go abroad and immigrate.

Due to the economic and cultural differences between China and the West, many China students now go abroad to study in order to immigrate. However, judging from the living habits, cultural environment, employment prospects and social and economic development trends of all countries in the world, this is not a wise choice. Because China is the most promising country. At present, the number of jobs provided in Europe is 1 100 million; The available employment rate in China is 400 million jobs. The real purpose of students going abroad is not to get a diploma and become immigrants, but to learn the culture that China lacks, pursue the study of foreign high-quality universities, cultivate their thinking and practical ability, and make up for the complementary shortage of domestic education.

Secondly, it should be clear that China's basic education is extremely advantageous.

Domestic education emphasizes the systematic cultivation and training of basic knowledge, so the basic knowledge and skills of China students should be solid. Western education puts more emphasis on individual creativity, so it may be slightly better in personalized talent and creativity. Some foreign students who have completed basic education in China will gradually show their advantages in basic skills abroad, and together with the innovative advantages of western education, they will soon make discoveries, inventions, creations and achievements. When talking about his achievements, Professor Yang Zhenning, a Nobel Prize winner, pointed out that The National SouthWest Associated University in China taught me a solid foundation and rigorous knowledge, and Columbia University in the United States taught me innovative methods. The advantages of Chinese and foreign education see each other, and the combination will produce all kinds of talents. Moreover, domestic basic education is also paying close attention to quality education and innovative education, and I believe that the development trend will not lag behind the West. Only when I got to the university, the lack of education in China was revealed, such as the lack of practical ability and market competition. Therefore, if students in China want to study abroad, they should choose to graduate from high school, so as to be well integrated into western culture. Students who want to learn technology need to graduate. As the overall quality of basic education in China is generally recognized internationally, it is not advisable to adopt a self-deprecating attitude.

Third, it is necessary to clarify the problems existing in studying abroad at a young age.

1. According to the physical and mental development characteristics of young international students, primary and secondary school students are generally around six or seven years old, with no strong self-control and self-management ability and immature mind. Because they are too young and foreign schools have great freedom, it is easy to cause their emotional and psychological troubles and cause defects in personality development. There are also some only children, who have poor self-care ability, have to learn from scratch to wash, cook and clean, lack social etiquette knowledge, have no hope of seeking help in a foreign country, are prone to depression and loss, and are prone to derailment in behavior.

2. From the perspective of the implementers of education, a successful basic education is composed of the trinity of schools, parents and society. In the process of children's growth, the care of parents is irreplaceable by anyone. Letting children live alone abroad at once will inevitably lead to emotional defects, which is unfavorable to the cultivation of children's psychological quality. In view of the fact that basic education is the national cultural education of a country and a nation, all countries in the world have adopted policies of disapproval, disapproval or even disapproval for primary and secondary school students to study abroad.

3. From the perspective of children's future development, a child's understanding of mother tongue culture needs to be accumulated over time. Without childhood experience, it is easy to lead to the lack of mother tongue culture. It is not necessarily a good thing to study abroad for a few years and then come back. As China people, students' future employment, development and various opportunities are closely related to their own country, and they should not give up basic education in China long ago.

Fourth, it is necessary to clarify the cost of studying abroad at a young age.

In developed countries, the direct contribution rate of education industry to GDP has reached 6-7%. For example, in the United States, the income from education services alone is as high as $200 billion a year. It is more profitable for the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia to recruit a large number of students in developing countries and charge expensive tuition fees. In Britain, Canada and other countries, there are even some schools that specialize in recruiting foreign students, aiming at China's "gold mine". Every middle school student charges120,000-150,000 RMB per year, which is more than 400,000 RMB in three years. However, China implements nine-year compulsory education, and most children have not completed nine-year compulsory education abroad, which is not in line with national laws and regulations and should not be encouraged. In addition, it is not advisable to take mother and son abroad to study at a young age. Take China and Singapore for example, there are differences in their education systems. The official language of Singapore is English. Students learn English from the first grade of primary school, while students in China generally learn English from the fourth and fifth grades. Generally, children in Singapore have to start school in the lower grades 1-2 years, which costs a lot of money. Moreover, boarding middle schools abroad are more expensive than universities, which prolongs the time for students to study abroad.

Fifth, it is necessary to clarify students' own qualities and talents.

Fully combine the educational advantages of foreign universities and students' own conditions, such as their own quality and hobbies, choose the direction of studying abroad, and make full preparations for studying abroad in the future, such as going to junior high school or high school in China, and how to go to universities and graduate students. In fact, if domestic students want to study foreign high school courses, there are very good schools in China, such as the Cambridge curriculum system-Beijing Wang Fu School, to ensure that students can study both domestic high school courses and foreign high school courses. After graduation, students can go to any foreign university with their A-level exam results. This teaching system has been widely recognized by domestic parents and students, and has been praised by the Chairman of the Cambridge Examinations Committee for many times: "Beijing Wang Fu School is one of the best schools I have ever seen". After visiting the Wang Fu School in Beijing, the leaders of UNESCO also thought it was the best and most effective school in the international education reform.

Sixth, make clear the development plan of students before studying abroad.

Before studying abroad, students should find an experienced and successful person who has studied in a top foreign university to provide life planning and study abroad tutors to help them make a good career plan. If you go through the formalities through an intermediary, you can only achieve the purpose of going abroad. Intermediaries are not very concerned about their future development. The above problems can be avoided if you make a good study abroad plan with a senior study abroad tutor. Among the educational consulting institutions at home and abroad, the best one is the Kangfu International Education Exchange Center founded by the China Alumni Association of Cambridge University, the British-French Association for Studying Abroad and the top successful students in the world. Relying on the most successful predecessors in the world, they make personalized career design for each student, and provide the best study abroad plan according to this design, so as to realize the dream of China students to become world famous schools and maximize everyone's life value.