Disuss the advantages and disadvantages of studying overseas

You always see Families migrating to other countries as parents wanted to pursue higher studying standards for their children. Singapore is also the same. Some Families in other countries moved to Singapore while there are also some families in Singapore moving to other countries with the mindset that their children would have better education in other countries than in their own countries. This can be observed from the number of people migrating nowadays. They migrate for mostly two reasons, first is the environment and secondly is the education standard and the person who would most benefit from this actions would be the children themselves. However, there are advantages and disadvantages of studying overseas.

Firstly, let's talk about advantages. Students studying in other countries such as USA would normally be more independent that those in Singapore. The reason is because when you are in a different environment and you have not much friends around you, what can you do other than trying to be independent yourself. That is mostly what happens when you are alone, facing a problem with no one able to help you solve or solve it together with you. For most of the parents, they want to see their children being independent other than be dependant on others. The second advantage is the variety of subjects. Although Singapore have good education standards, it does not consist some of the subjects some students want to learn but when other countries offers the subject, the students would automatically try to go for that subject if they are really interested and by doing that, they would be able to gain more knowledge and put the knowledge to good use. Example of that is introducing that particular subject to students so they can pursue that knowledge in Singapore rather than go overseas.

As for the disadvantages, students who study overseas may forget about the teachings of their grandparents or parents about being filial and other teachings after being exposed to the outside world of foreign countries. They may be led astray by the harmful effects brought by the different kinds of people they meet out there and try to imitate what the people there do just because most of them are doing it. As for people who go to foreign countries to pursue a degree certificate assuming that they can find a job easily back in their own country, they are wrong. Though workers nowadays are not required to continuously upgrade themselves to keep up with the society, they did that but due to what reason? The reason is in order not to get sacked and becoming unemployed. And due to the strong competition, people with degree nowadays too suffer from unemployment just as those who did not have a lot of education.

Therefore, before migrating to other countries for studies, be sure to consider the advantages and disadvantages of it.
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