The article that I read for this week was about expanding
the global education opportunity out to Indonesian students. At Stanford
University there are two students by the name of Martin Tjioe and Veni Johanna.
These two students are from Indonesia and they are currently studying at
Stanford University. Since they have been there, they noticed that there were
very few other Indonesian students. They became concerned and their concern was
true for many other universities and top universities worldwide. In order to do
something about the issue, the students created what was called Indonesia
Mengglobal. It is a web based network that tries to provide firsthand
information to Indonesian students and to top global universities to those who
are aspiring or wanting to study abroad.
One question
that comes up now is, why go overseas for education? Or, why not stay in
Indonesia? Some of the responses to that
question were “Overseas education offers students unique learning experiences.
Studying abroad gives students opportunities to broaden their perspectives, be
more independent and develop their confidence. It leads students to think and solve
problems differently, while opening a whole new door of future opportunities”.
That was just a little of what student Veni Johanna said in regards to studying
overseas. The students also looked at reasons as to why students may not study
abroad. Some of the reasons were, people often lack the confidence to make that
big step in life, lack of accurate information, there is a fee at times when it
comes to services that support the idea of studying abroad and sometimes there
is just a lack of support when it comes to someone that the students can talk
to or get information and advice from.
The web
based network Indonesia Mengglobal is meant to try and address some of the
issues or problems that are hindering these students from studying abroad. The students that created this network are
hoping that it will help these students make the decision. Their hopes are to
inspire, inform and educate. After a year of creating and implementing this
network, it now has an eight person team. There are more than 100 articles that
are provided as well as more than 60 contributors to the network. Some of the
universities are Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge and LSE. They also
hold events every now and then and the last event that was held had about 1,000
people who attended. The team also wanted it to be known that the network has
now been made public. This article was very informative when it came to the
created network and what their hopes are for it. It was interesting to see that
the network has been up and running now for a year and it seems that it is
growing for the best. It seems that the students and their team are working
hard to make sure that global education is an opportunity for many students in
their home country of Indonesia. It would be great to see if something like
this could expand to students all over the world and not just in Indonesia.
Jennifer Aiken
2/27/2013 3:03pm
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