Regarding German Study Opportunities for Korean Students
A couple of students followed up a German studies program application and interview last week with a visit to discuss the learning opportunities for Koreans in Germany. My expertise is in gathering information and over the last few years I have spent a portion of my time investigating options such as warm my heart like no other: tuition waivered studies.
A couple of students followed up a German studies program application and interview last week with a visit to discuss the learning opportunities for Koreans in Germany. My expertise is in gathering information and over the last few years I have spent a portion of my time investigating options such as warm my heart like no other: tuition waivered studies.
CIA Factbook: Germany
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html
Notably such programs are popping up in the regional northwest of the United States especially concerning public school teacher in-service certification programs either through state funded or religious affiliated school boards particularly in inner city locations. I noted a shocking statistic on the cbc website from 2003 which stated that in cities like Calgary immigrant students have had a drop-out rate as high as 74% at that time according to The Coalition for Equal Access to Education. I sometimes wonder how long the market can continue to claim it provides many opportunities for immigrants and newcomers with student ratios to ESL teachers as high as 80 to one. Perhaps the situation has been remedied. However I continue to see ESL jobs advertised in Canada from 10 to 15 dollars and hour which is the kind of salary a part-time coffee server earns in Australia.
Back to Germany. The Germans have a wide roster of educational options for foreign students. While the challenge of learning German might be intimidating to many it would actually not implicate in classroom learning which by German standards is free for locals and foreigners. My concern would be the sizes of classes which are described as often extremely large by writers like Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reid Hall.
However the best possible option I found appears to be the Master's Degrees in International Industrial Management, Automotive Engineering, Information Technology and Automation Systems at The University of Esslingen Graduate School. http://www.hs-esslingen.de/en/19213
Esslingen University of Applied Science
Westminster Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Graduate School 101 FlanderstrasseEsslingen
73732 Germany
What impressed me about this program was the sheer breadth and depth of professional studies, all in the English language medium, strong affiliations with several local corporations including Robert Bosch and Festo while located in the region of Stuttgart and Germany's industrial heartland. The other obvious benefit is the described class sizes of 25.
Another reason I would see Germany and Europe as being a possible alternative for studies possibly leading to immigration and regular local employment options are related to research I did into the Korean education industry in February to satisfy my Cornell Certificate. In short, The US, the UK, Australia, and Canada already provide education to nearly half of all OECD international students and prove price prohibitive access to Korean students unable to currently afford foreign studies (Wyckoff & Schaaper, 2005: 3). However European scholarship awards could provide a path to alternate education for many as the EU is predicted to require nearly half a million new researchers by the year 2010 to increase R & D capacities to a rate of an average 3% of GDP from a current 2% which would be more than 700,000 at EC estimates (Guellec, 2002; Sheehan and Wyckoff, 2003; European Commission, 2003 in Wyckoff & Schaaper, 2005: 5). Predictions suggest Chinese and Indians will fill the gaps yet the same study predicts similar required increases in Japan, which would be easier for Koreans to fill than perhaps Indians or Chinese competitors due to cultural similarities.
Korean German Chamber of Commerce
http://korea.ahk.de/index.php?id=400
http://korea.ahk.de/index.php?id=400
Furthermore Australian universities are providing more short-term research contracts to encourage immigration and at the same time shifting highly skilled professionals from Oz to the US market offering additional incentive to fully funded educational scholarships for Australians. The Korean industry has best minimized financing options through government deregulation and many national economies, including Canada limit student loan disbursements for the purposes of study outside of the county. In Korea's case student loans for studies within the nation do not even exist. There are significant costs to be absorbed through such switching. In this case it may be the Japanese, Australians or the Europeans who pay the bills. Koreans are quite willing to immigrate under the right conditions. The only substitute that most Korean students have to attending a Korean university at present is to attend a Korean college because they could not enter a Korean university. http://crossculturalreviews.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
If considering Germany then why not Denmark?
Considering EU convergences I was not surprised to see that Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus which conducts several exchange and international degree programs claims English language medium studies are as high as 70% of courses offered.
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