Education at any time can be challenging but add to that the challenge of moving to another country with a different language, culture and educational system, qualification framework, values and beliefs and the number of complexities are difficult to imagine let alone navigate.
In March 2017 the United Nations estimated the world population to be 7.5 billion with a growth rate of 1.11%, an estimated average population change of 80 million per year. Today the world’s population is estimated to be 7.9 billion.