{"id":47285,"date":"2021-12-19T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=47285"},"modified":"2021-12-19T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:39:16","slug":"exclusive-international-students-share-their-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/exclusive-international-students-share-their-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: International students share their experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leaving the home country can be exciting for some people, especially young adults. Voice of London spoke to a couple of international students to learn about their stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most popular destinations for studying abroad is the UK, especially London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tclglobal.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data from the HESA<\/a> (Higher Education Statistics Agency) revealed that during the academic year 2019\/2020 the number of international students in the UK reached the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice of London interviewed two international students: Saray, from Spain, and Daniele, from Lithuania, who are studying at the University of Westminster. \u201cHome is not a place, it&#8217;s a feeling, \u201d says Daniele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students spoke about their overall experience of living and studying in the UK, including positive benefits and challenges, such as the initial language barrier and getting a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details are in the video down below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What international students think about leaving &quot;home&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5Vq2oR8K3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Experiences of international students. Narrated &amp; Edited by: Ioana Nedelcu Filmed by: Daniele Kieraite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words\/Video: Ioana Nedelcu<\/strong> |<strong> Subbing:<\/strong> <strong>Daniele Kieraite<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the home country can be exciting for some people, especially young adults. Voice of London spoke to a couple of international students to learn about their stories. One of the most popular destinations for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":47292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-students"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47403,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285\/revisions\/47403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}