African students the most mobile in the world
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD NEWSROOM AFRICAN students seeking higher education are the most mobile in the world, with over 405, 000 ― 5 per cent of the 8.1 million tertiary students on the continent, studying overseas or elsewhere. According to French Campus, which monitors students’ data movement, the figure is more than double the global average of 2.4 per cent. As of September, last year, France had 29,000 Moroccan students, followed by students from Algeria and Tunisia. In the United Kingdom, there were more than 17, 000 Nigerian students followed by students from Egypt and Kenya. In the United States, there were…