- Popularity of overseas education wanes as incomes tighten and domestic institutions continue to improve
- Fierce competition for jobs, higher tuitions reduce potential benefit, but some students continue to pursue opportunities internationally
Shiyu Bao, centre, and her fellow classmates who are international students from China, get ready to take pictures in their graduation gowns around campus at the University of Sydney on July 4, 2020. Families are rethinking sending their students to study abroad amid changed economic circumstances.
Grace Wang wakes every morning around 6 to spend her day planting trees in the Finnish wilderness.
Laden with baskets brimming with saplings, Wang and her fellow planters trudge down an uneven dirt road strewn with weeds and branches. With each step towards the designated area for planting, the weight of the basket presses harder on her weary shoulders.
