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Special Report - Education 2011 (ISSN 17414474)
STUDYING ABROAD: Brazil and Chile stimulate overseas studying
While traditionally Latin America has seen students travel overseas to obtain top notch graduate and postgraduate degrees, it was not until recently that South American governments began stimulating this practice by sponsoring students with scholarship programmes. Chile has traditionally led the way in this practice, with a significant number of students completing courses abroad (as shown in the table below). While Chile is by no means the country with the highest number of students overseas, what sets it apart is that many of those able to obtain their education overseas did so with state backing in the form of scholarships; conversely, in the majority of the other countries it is generally affluent students, or those who win scholarships funded by foreign sources, who have enjoyed this privilege in the past –and in many places to this day.
