Universities for foreign students and yet theres hardly anyone on this campus today most of us students are staying at home afraid of what the coronavirus might do to their studies and their lives and a lot of them a worried about their finances. While they are know to wish in fees at public german universities Living Expenses amount to an average of 867 year olds a month. Students spend around 330. 00 euros on rent but the cost is much higher in big cities. Thats why 3 out of 4 foreign students work part time to support themselves. I applied to make a lot of number of companies but theyre not even digging interviews right now so i just got like interview from navan like 3 months so its a pretty bad situation in terms of jobs level to divvy and she says he still plans to stay in germany despite financial constraints. I can do with them many job or anything like that before that and do some other courses along with it so i mean its not a rush but. Ultimately i will have to finance myself you know get a full time job to support myself. But many businesses arent hiring they are struggling to keep themselves afloat but that doesnt mean giving up the still networking and learning the language both cheeks for a career here for alternators to do and a good i think still the same advice to foreign students the main ways of getting in contact with germans are through hobbies and john would improve University Sports are back on so you can meet outside playing Musical Instruments is allowed. There are lots of opportunities for isolated foreign students to come out of social isolation to come the best advice is to make the most of the time especially with fewer distractions right now. Going digital is proving to be a winner for universities that are trying to encourage students to enroll despite the difficulties of this crisis we spoke to Vice President of nickel university uncle heres what she had to say. We have a lot of International Students some of it is here some our way all around the world trying to participate in or in our online forum at the course there has been a lot of insecurities about whether they can join us in the trial in india lin novena they have to stay at home some of them some of them thats a great opportunity to stay at home and still participate in our Study Programs for others its of course very disappointing to not be able to come to billin and enjoy here this is the life and to meet other students so its its been quite a challenge to be after i have noted which been really interesting that the number of applicants who are the trial has risen by 30 percent we cant really say why they have such a great interest but i would think that the major many handled them independent emmy winning sort of was a very positive classes for these thats not how it was portrayed internationally and a lot of students have told us that you know instead of applying to the universities in the u. S. Especially with insecurities about them you say shoes people prefer students prefer to apply to german universities definitely and michel hans joins us now from the German Academic Exchange service Michele Fiore the foreign students are looking to germany due to its handling of this crisis. I mean very much so i mean we have seen the constant rise over the past decade you know from run about one 129002 now more than 300000 International Students universities were now a member 4 countries so im not surprised in this times of crisis in them that makes you know people are looking towards some of the because there is this general tendency that the country has and the crisis quite well so far. Ive also been told theres more interest in Tech Health Science and engineering especially among women due to the pandemic can you tell us more about that. As of now we dont have you know that yet but i mean all the responses we get from. The colleagues in our well i offices they say and theres a lot of interest in Health Studies you know in actually tributes to you know its always some of the pressing issues of time and. Yes i see that and is it also as well what about the other way around germans studying abroad i know they love to add a lot of the look to my home country australia for example where is this crisis put them. Well this is quite interesting because it does not seem to prevent you know an interest in going abroad and i think we have seen an enormous. Rice of Digital Media online teaching which is very very good service a lot of commitment you know universities and professors on those fronts but i mean its very important still for young people to overall you know theres these personality aspect to it nest growth factor and i think that people want to go abroad and want the feeling and we are seeing this tendency that people still want to go abroad and you know actually feel the cultural learning as well just briefly will the pandemic have a Lasting Impact on education and Exchange Programs. I think so i mean quite possibly we will see that some of the digital phones will prevail and compliment to cicle mobility in the future but as i said before theres a lot more to the physical exchange the learning you know getting to know a cultures so i think yes some of the digital progress that we have seen that will prevail there will always be lead a necessity for physical Exchange Programs in the future and thats one aspect i want like to emphasize the meaning and significance of International Cooperation has been shown its road passed through months i mean its very important still for research and for students alike to Work TogetherInternational Cooperation point there michelle harms from the German Academic ExchangeService Thanks for being on the show thank you very much. Time to head over to our science correspondent Derrick Williams hes got answers to some of the questions youve been sending us on the coronavirus. How different is saz cove 2 to other viruses that infect us for example to people who catch influenza sometimes have no symptoms yes although asymptomatic is a is a pretty squishy term weve known for decades that people who dont report flu symptoms can test positive as carriers for the bug and older estimates usually put the number of asymptomatic carriers for flu at around 50 percent much cited british study from 2014 however determined an even larger number of people infected with influenza never develop symptoms 77 percent to be exact now if thats correct it means not even one in 4 people who catch the flu will ever show any signs of it one way or the other even if the estimates dont all agree theres plenty of evidence showing that its quite common for us to catch a range of other viruses and show no signs of illness and theres also broad agreement that those asymptomatic carriers are likely contributing significantly to the spread of those diseases. 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