• Question: Does studying abroad give you a wider variety of educational experience, if so how? Does it have any benefits? Do you recommend students to study abroad after they have finished school?

    Asked by Courtney_Collins to Saffron on 18 Jun 2015.
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      Saffron Whitehead answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      My experience studying my PhD in Canada was invaluable and it taught me a lot. I think the benefits of travelling, whether to study or work, provide an amazing enhacement of life. I would never have become a scientist if I had not gone to the US after school and landed a job as a lab technician at MIT in Boston. It was only then I decided to come back to London where I took my first degree. Then, of course, I went back across the water to Canada. I also spent 6 months travelling round Canada, and another time 3 months travelling round the States. I still have itchy feet and travel when I can.

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