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From the NY Times (30 03 20120. The news is blocked partially by the advertisers. -bhuban March 29, 2012, 6:37 AM Indian Students Look Regionally for Higher Education By THE NEW YORK TIMES “While finishing high school near Pune, India, Pooja Modi started looking for university engineering programs online. Eighteen years old at the time, she knew she wanted to become a solar energy expert,” Christopher F. Schuetze writes in The International Herald Tribune. “The location of her studies was less important to her than the quality of the program,” Mr.Schuetze writes. “Going abroad was not important, but getting the best education was,” for Ms. Modi, he writes. She was admitted to the University of New South Wales in Australia. Now in her fourth year of studies there, she says she could not have made a better choice, Mr. Schuetze writes. Though traditional host countries like the United States and Britain are still heavily favored, a trend toward regionalism is emerging. More students are choosing the shorter travel distances, greater cultural similarities and closer economic ties of neighboring countries. South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are “emerging market” destinations according to Chiao-Ling Chien of Unesco’s Institutes of Statistics, which carries out studies on foreign student. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
