Research Conclusion and Citation

Conclusion

This assignment has explained us the sorts of problems international students have prioritized by the importance for them. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether there was any difference between the male and female international students. The study has proven that there are differences between the male and female students’ problems. It is clearly shown (Figure i) that female students are really struggling with their finances whereas male respondents’ ratio is quite low. The second major finding was the visa problem which was about the double in percentage in females than the male interviewees. This research will serve as a base for the future studies for example why the students are having difficulties to get the visa to come and study in the UK, significantly female students. The study has gone some way towards enhancing our understanding about the problems of international students in the UK. This research has thrown up many questions in need of further investigation. More information on why is getting the visa for the international student is so difficult would help us to establish greater degree of accuracy on this matter. These findings suggest several courses of action for both the universities and the British government which could possibly be in favor of international students, for example universities can offer student loans to international students similar to their home students. And the British government can reconsider their rules of the visa for the international students.

References

The Independent 2006-07
The Independent 2008, Education, 04/07/08, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/universities-too-reliant-on-foreign-student-fees-853522.html ]

Tuition Fee for 2008-09
London Metropolitan University 2008, International, 08/07/08,
[http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/international/howtoapply/tuitionfees.cfm]

International Students Problems
High Beam Research 2008, Education, 08/07/08, [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-177361675.html]

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Research Results and Report

In our research about the student problems in which we wanted to find out if there is any difference between the sorts of problems male presessional students have compared to female presessional students.
In the research carried out on 01/07/08 we found out the different types of problems presessional students have and compared them between female and male students. Our total number of respondents were 27 in which 16 were female and 11 were male.

If we look at the female group first we can clearly see that in the study we found that almost a quarter of female students have the Finance (funding) problem as the most and slightly less than 15% have the language and the home sickness as their most problem. As we can clearly see about 20% of the female students described that getting the visa to UK is the very big problem for them and almost 10% of students are having trouble in opening a bank account as their major problem. We should not mention it but less than five percent of students are having problem with the child care.






After having these general problems when we asked them the problems regarding overall life in UK, the quality of study and the staff at London Met University they replied us again differently. About 50% percent of them are Quite Satisfied with the life in UK and around 45% of them are quite satisfied with the quality of study in London Met but on the contrary just over a third are Not Very Satisfied with the quality of study and same we found with the quality of staff slightly lower than half of them are Just Satisfied with the quality of staff at the University.

Now on the other side of the picture if we look at their counterparts male students’ chart we can certainly say their problems are really different than the female students. But amazingly as we can see that male students did not have the problem with the Food and Child Care at all which is really astonishing. If we see the chart below and recall the females’ we can see that male students have about the same percentage of problem to their rivals for the transportation. Same point in the Language problem but with just a fraction of difference while there is a big difference in the Accommodation. Male students find it really hard to find an accommodation as compare to females.