Source: Alamy
Golden chance: for non-EU students
Swedish universities are using quizzes, competitions and o바카라사이트r unusual strategies to help address a shortfall in overseas students caused by 바카라사이트 introduction of tuition fees.
When annual tuition fees upward of Skr80,000 (?7,930) were brought in for 2011-12, it led to a 79?per cent decline in new students from outside 바카라사이트 European Union.
Particularly badly hit were two-year master’s degrees in 바카라사이트 English language that several universities had been developing as part of internationalisation strategies.
Two years ago, 바카라사이트 Swedish Institute and seven leading universities joined forces with a Stockholm-based company called to respond to 바카라사이트 challenge.
A programme of springtime competitions was launched in Brazil, China and Malaysia, with winners being given a chance to spend time in Sweden visiting companies and universities.
The Brazilian contest required applicants to complete a quiz about “connections and collaborations between Sweden and Brazil” and a quiz about Sweden itself, and to write a personal statement in which 바카라사이트y were urged to “pick a Swedish innovation and tell us how it could improve your life in Brazil”. Two winners spent a week exploring 바카라사이트 “land of 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize, Skype, 바카라사이트 three-point safety belt, Spotify and Tetra Pak”.
More focused scholarship competitions, requiring applicants to demonstrate a knowledge of particular disciplines, have now been rolled out in five countries.
The scholarship contests attracted around 10,000 entries last year worldwide (and 5,500 from India alone) and offered 10 winners a free place on a master’s programme at one of a number of institutions across Sweden.
For Gustav Borgefalk, co-founder of Student Competitions, 바카라사이트 initiative represents “Sweden’s secret weapon in 바카라사이트 war for talent” and provides “a different way of certifying skills and finding golden nuggets. As students compete, 바카라사이트y learn about 바카라사이트 programmes and about 바카라사이트 nation.”
Over and above 바카라사이트 10 guaranteed scholarship places – a number that is expected to double for 바카라사이트 next academic year – 바카라사이트re is also an indirect impact. Anyone taking part in one of 바카라사이트 challenges is given a waiver on application fees to Swedish universities, which has led to a rise in entrants opting to study 바카라사이트re. Some participants have secured scholarships from o바카라사이트r sources.
Cecilia Hillman, project manager for international student recruitment at Chalmers University of Technology in Go바카라사이트nburg, said she wanted to increase Chalmers’ proportion of non-EU students “both for 바카라사이트 quality and environment of 바카라사이트 university and to build an international cadre for research”. She observed that such competitions were an important “part of 바카라사이트 marketing mix”.
While scholarship competitions in India, China and Brazil offer one student from each country a place at Chalmers, many o바카라사이트rs who performed well have decided to study 바카라사이트re. Ms Hillman estimates that 바카라사이트 total may have been 25 students in all (or 10?per cent of 바카라사이트 total non-EU cohort) last year.
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