Education is a building block in a person’s life because it is all about the changes that occur and education is the key to help us adapt in such unforeseen changes. Education itself is a ladder a person has to climb in order to be successful but the real struggles appears when the very platform of the educational base changes. Especially for an immigrant student who faces difficulties in so many levels such as language barriers, new culture as well as different education system. Being an immigrant student myself, I have faced the language barrier and the education systems. These are a lot of difficulties I’ve had to experience and it was hard not assimilate fast enough. I also had to face many stereotypes being an Asian and also because
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Learning and going to school was just something that I was always looked forward too and still do. Canada is so different than Nepal, big skyscrapers, different ethnicity, so many different culture and languages, different type of food and the friendliness of people could overwhelm anyone and I was no exception when I arrived here back in 2010. In Nepal, education system was really different than how it is in Canada. However I observed Nepal to be keeping paces with the education in Canada because the topic that was being taught to students in Grade 7 here would be taught to students in Grade 3 in Nepal but only theoretically. One did not have lockers, neither the have freedom of choosing the subjects they were interested in. The school already provided students with courses that was required and after SLC, (a school leaving certificate exam in Nepal for grade 10 students) it was a night mare without any counseling to get accepted to college with limited majors to choose and for the bachelors and for further studies in the University. Pupils are required to go to college first rather than university because that’s just how the education system works in Nepal. Here in Canada, right after grade 12 you either enter college or university, pick a major of your choice. Yes, there are criteria required for our course but we can still pick an elective of our choice. For me a cultural shock I would say would be the amount of freedom of choice in our
Learning and going to school was just something that I was always looked forward too and still do. Canada is so different than Nepal, big skyscrapers, different ethnicity, so many different culture and languages, different type of food and the friendliness of people could overwhelm anyone and I was no exception when I arrived here back in 2010. In Nepal, education system was really different than how it is in Canada. However I observed Nepal to be keeping paces with the education in Canada because the topic that was being taught to students in Grade 7 here would be taught to students in Grade 3 in Nepal but only theoretically. One did not have lockers, neither the have freedom of choosing the subjects they were interested in. The school already provided students with courses that was required and after SLC, (a school leaving certificate exam in Nepal for grade 10 students) it was a night mare without any counseling to get accepted to college with limited majors to choose and for the bachelors and for further studies in the University. Pupils are required to go to college first rather than university because that’s just how the education system works in Nepal. Here in Canada, right after grade 12 you either enter college or university, pick a major of your choice. Yes, there are criteria required for our course but we can still pick an elective of our choice. For me a cultural shock I would say would be the amount of freedom of choice in our