{"id":2334,"date":"2020-04-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T11:00:00","slug":"new-publication-shows-how-studying-in-this-england-is-wahala-trouble-by-dr-louise-owusu-kwarteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2020\/04\/30\/new-publication-shows-how-studying-in-this-england-is-wahala-trouble-by-dr-louise-owusu-kwarteng\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication shows how &#8216;Studying in this England is wahala (trouble)&#8217;, by Dr Louise Owusu-Kwarteng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The article by Dr Louise Owusu-Kwarteng, recently featured in Studies in Higher Education Journal, analyses the challenges and benefits of being a West African &#8211; international student in the English Academic scenario. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/images.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2431\" width=\"280\" height=\"401\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The study, based on the experience of 12 West African (Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone) students illustrates why &#8216;studying in this England is trouble&#8217;. If on one hand there is an underlying promise of a more successful career future with academic achievement accredited abroad, on the other, the contrasts in education systems, adjustment to a different culture, environment, cost of living, lifestyle and contrasting study pace can be a hard hit for some students. Nothing prepares them to this reality, it must be lived and experienced. Pessimism aside, this narrative is a clear contrast with that portrayed in the comedy film <em>Coming to America <\/em>but equally enlightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Dr Louise Owusu-Kwarteng cleverly achieves a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/03075079.2020.1723528\"> Publication<\/a> that draw us to reflect on the polarity of two very distinct education system &#8211; the Western world and Africa, while subtly creating awareness for this reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article by Dr Louise Owusu-Kwarteng, recently featured in Studies in Higher Education Journal, analyses the challenges and benefits of being a West African &#8211; international student in the English Academic scenario. The study, based on the experience of 12 West African (Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone) students illustrates why &#8216;studying in this England is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2020\/04\/30\/new-publication-shows-how-studying-in-this-england-is-wahala-trouble-by-dr-louise-owusu-kwarteng\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New publication shows how &#8216;Studying in this England is wahala (trouble)&#8217;, by Dr Louise Owusu-Kwarteng&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","category-research","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}