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This shadowy India/Canada international education contrasts heavily with the exchange programs (also international education) in EU, which are normally some of

This shadowy India/Canada international education contrasts heavily with the exchange programs (also international education) in EU, which are normally some of the best experiences in people's life. The way it works here with the Erasmus program is that you go for 6 months or 1 year to study to a "partner" University, and a student from that University comes to yours. Both students pay the local price instead of the destination price so it keeps costing the same as other years; which is also normally not a big deal since they are both likely free (in most of EU, public free Universities are better than private ones, at least for STEM). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus%2B

nivenkos 5y ago
Worth nothing that Erasmus has government support though. It has a lot of structure and effort put into it. And your home institution still gives you the degree itself, so there's no complications there either.
wott 5y ago
> The way it works here with the Erasmus program is that you go for 6 months or 1 year to study Let's be honest, in most cases you can replace the word 'study' with 'party'. That's why you end up with "some of the best experiences in people's life", as you say. In many cases, students do not have the required language level to follow and understand courses, so if they bother to show up, the content flies over their head while they are busy decoding the form. Sometimes they do not even speak a word of the language. In some cases, they follow dumbed down courses in a third language (Globish) with a teacher who can hardly speak it, so they never learn the local language, and they learn some bad English.
- marderfarker2 5y ago
  I was a participant in an Erasmus programme with a German university. In my case the German University created and translated a course to English and the classes and exams were conducted in English. There were some rough edges, such as untranslated terms but it isn’t as hopeless as you claimed.
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nivenkos 5y ago

Worth nothing that Erasmus has government support though. It has a lot of structure and effort put into it. And your home institution still gives you the degree itself, so there's no complications there either.

wott 5y ago

> The way it works here with the Erasmus program is that you go for 6 months or 1 year to study Let's be honest, in most cases you can replace the word 'study' with 'party'. That's why you end up with "some of the best experiences in people's life", as you say. In many cases, students do not have the required language level to follow and understand courses, so if they bother to show up, the content flies over their head while they are busy decoding the form. Sometimes they do not even speak a word of the language. In some cases, they follow dumbed down courses in a third language (Globish) with a teacher who can hardly speak it, so they never learn the local language, and they learn some bad English.

marderfarker2 5y ago
I was a participant in an Erasmus programme with a German university. In my case the German University created and translated a course to English and the classes and exams were conducted in English. There were some rough edges, such as untranslated terms but it isn’t as hopeless as you claimed.
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