REASONS TO STUDY IN
LONDON By Evgenia Vincent
There are many reasons why foreign students choose the UK universities- quality of teaching, world recognition and so on. I came to London for similar reasons plus I wanted a change in my every day life in St. Petersburg. Just like many other foreign students I started my education journey with English language classes that would prepare me for the IELTS test. Then I progressed to A-levels before starting my search for the perfect university.
While there were a lot of positive aspects in my experience I felt that for some I could have been better prepared. For instance the form of university education in the UK was surprising to me, mostly because of the very little amount of taught hours and the emphasis on the self-study. At University my classmates only had about 4 hours of lectures a week with 4 seminars every other week. I had two hours more because I took a Spanish language module in another University of London institution as part of my degree. We were, however, expected to do lots of reading. Coming from a country where reading War and Peace at the age of 13 is a norm I was prepared for some reading I just wasn’t prepared for this amount of reading! By the third year there were about 100 pages to read for each lecture. In regards to the marked work, it was also mostly self-exploratory. For example students in my class received very little guidance on essay writing, many of my non-native English friends found this
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