Postgraduates
The number of postgraduate students in the UK has grown
dramatically, from a few thousand in the early 1960s to roughly
500,000 today. Over 30% of these are international. We recognise
that many postgraduates are isolated from the undergraduate
community; and that in addition international postgraduates
can struggle to integrate into any local community.
With the support of local churches, academic groups, UCCF
and existing postgraduate groups, Friends International has
begun a project to reach out in friendship to international
postgraduate students. It will help to organise activities
and conferences for postgraduates; and encourage and equip
Christian postgraduates to reach out in friendship to their
international peers.
The work is co-ordinated by Nigerian-born Remi Tobler. Remi
studied as an international student in Cambridge. She has
spent the last 13 years working in Canada among students,
five of them specifically with post-graduate students. She
now lives in Cambridge with her husband who is involved in
postdoctoral research at the University.
For more information, please visit the postgraduate
network website or contact Remi
Tobler.
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