WHO SAID WHAT
Andreas Laimböck,
founder, LTL Mandarin School, China
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Anouchka Plumb,
University of Windsor, Canada “
Samuel Vetrak, CEO, BONARD
“ Most educators have moved
to online delivery for those students
who are already at their destination.
However, online delivery doesn’t
seem to be a sustainable long-term
solution. Agencies stress that
international students are paying
the fees not only to study abroad,
but also to immerse themselves
and interact with the local people
and culture. It’s about an overall
experience that online delivery does
not necessarily offer.
Those feeling
exhausted... is
over 90%, which is
just mindboggling
“
“
On a national context
based on a Canadian reference
group 2016 and 2019 executive
summaries, the percentage
of tertiary level students not
just international who feel
overwhelmed, both male and
female, has increased to over
90 per cent. And for those who
reported feeling exhausted from
non-physical activities, again it
is over 90 per cent, which is just
mindboggling.
“The way I built LTL was to teach Chinese
the way I wished I had studied it: small
classes and interactive learning. The other
part is immersion. We focused on homestays
from the beginning and about 80 per cent of
students do them. Providing good homestays
is probably the thing we are best at. In China,
it isn’t easy to find good homestay families.
The hardest thing is screening out homestays
that only want somebody as an English
teacher. But when you find a good family, they
look after the students really well.
“Providing
good homestays is
probably the thing
we are best at
It’s about an
overall experiene
that online
delivery does not
necessarily offer