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The Impact on Students Studying Abroad-- Take the Chinese Students Studying in Canada as an Example

Lulu Qiu

Abstract


Under the background of globalization, a lot of countries are trying to improve the level of education and encourage educational exchanges. Students studying abroad experience the culture and education system of diff erent countries as global citizens, which is helpful to improve the education level of the country where the students are located, and at the same time, it also promote economic growth of the country who received the foreign students. The research on Chinese students studying in Canada is in line with the scope of global education.

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Studying abroad; Chinese students; Impact; Global Education

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i32.11810

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