Wednesday 2 July 2008

Research : The international presessional student problems_Finding session after have got the result from questionaires


GROUP 2: Elaine, Akiko, Siri, Sheraz

REASEARCH TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROBLEMS
Research aim:

The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim are carried out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

Method

The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University. The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

Finding

The primary aim, the sorts of problems international students, were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.
One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.
The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.
Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.

The secondary aims were demonstrated that about 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied and 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
However, the quality of study just over a half of the respondents say that they were quite satisfied, but approximately 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan.
While the majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and more than 30 % say they were just satisfied by staffs.
(This article was written by Siri)

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