Culture shock

Laveena Francis
06 March 2025, The Tablet

Alamy, Aleksei Egorov

Bertina, who is studying for a Master’s degree at the University of Leicester, is one of many students I spoke to who were taken aback by the high cost of living in the UK.

Caron D’Souza, a 22-year-old postgraduate criminology and criminal justice student at the University of Leeds, has found that studying in the UK is exposing her to new cultures and experiences.

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