Amid rising prices, universities attempt to assist college students examine overseas

Japanese college college students aspiring to review overseas are being slowed down by the weak yen and a world rise in costs.

The price of learning overseas, together with journey and dwelling bills, is way larger now in comparison with earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, universities within the Chubu area are exploring methods to encourage college students to realize worldwide experiences, together with by offering monetary help and partaking them in diploma applications supplied in English in Japan.

At Nagoya College, a survey by the college’s examine overseas workplace in July revealed {that a} vital variety of college students who had deliberate to go on an change gave up on the thought as a consequence of monetary causes. On the time of the survey, the yen was buying and selling as little as ¥161 to the greenback.