I haven’t thought about this particular group of young men for years but recent developments have brought them inevitably back into my mind. In the 1990s, I was working for a UK Russell Group university in “student mobility”, which is how the higher education sector refers to students spending a short part of their degree at another university in another country. At that time, most of the students who went abroad from UK universities were students of modern European languages going to France, Germany or Spain. Business schools seemed to the be the first UK university departments to systematically make it possible for their students to study abroad, and other disciplines followed with more or less enthusiasm. As the university where I worked started to encourage students in departments other than Modern Languages to study abroad, and as modern languages departments started to offer languages other than the traditional French, German and Spanish, a distinct subgroup of students started to appear.
Anime, IT, and young western men
Anime, IT, and young western men
Anime, IT, and young western men
I haven’t thought about this particular group of young men for years but recent developments have brought them inevitably back into my mind. In the 1990s, I was working for a UK Russell Group university in “student mobility”, which is how the higher education sector refers to students spending a short part of their degree at another university in another country. At that time, most of the students who went abroad from UK universities were students of modern European languages going to France, Germany or Spain. Business schools seemed to the be the first UK university departments to systematically make it possible for their students to study abroad, and other disciplines followed with more or less enthusiasm. As the university where I worked started to encourage students in departments other than Modern Languages to study abroad, and as modern languages departments started to offer languages other than the traditional French, German and Spanish, a distinct subgroup of students started to appear.