Letters

Practical education a must

Yao Yu, a 23-year-old Chinese woman who had arrived in New York just two months ago, was raped and fatally beaten up by a man in a suburb. Shock and anger was my first reaction to the news. But the tragedy tells us more.

Rapid globalization has made studying overseas a trend in China. More and more students are going abroad for higher studies. But not all of them prepare well for their studies and the different life they would encounter abroad. They have to face a lot of difficulties such as communication, cultural differences and the vagaries of a completely new environment.