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Study abroad is a big bucks business. With no government or societal pressure to keep a lid on tuition and other fees payable by foreign students, institutional managements abroad have a few qualms about decreeing inflation-adjusted fees for overseas students who are increasingly being regarded as cash cows. Therefore it is vitally important for students proceeding maximum value – bang for the buck – from their investment in superior offshore education.

As a rule upper middle class children who constitute the majority of Indian students going abroad for study tend to be over-protected and mollycoddled in their home environment. Therefore it is important for them to be conditioned to live abroad where college students are regarded as adults and expected to be independent and fully responsible for their own lives.

Conditioning recommendations to parents:

Encourage your child to become independent before they leave home, so that they learn to handle money and responsibility

Ensure that they learn to rough things out – travelling by public transport, learning to choose cheap meals, sew buttons, clean bathrooms, use the washing machine, wash dishes, etc

Teach them some easy-to-cook meals and recipes

Keep in close touch with your child during the first few months; ensure that they have enough money or a phone card for calling home without having to worry about the expense

Set up an email link to ease the pain of separation.

Arrange for friends and/or relations in the host country to keep an eye on your ward.