Inadequate medical care. Frank is one of four returning students who are upset about the poor academics of the relatively new study abroad program. They say students interested in studying abroad should think twice about this particular program. The program is offered through the SANN Research Institute, which conducts high altitude physiology research. Students spend 70 days in Nepal, getting formal classroom instruction and living with host families during their stay.
Students also get to go on a river-rafting trip and spend a few days in a jungle for a safari.
Their English was so broken it was very difficult to even ask a question. The response would be to a question you didn't ask. The majority of the accredited teachers at the institute are Nepalese, and the language barrier forced the teaching to a basic level, students said. The problems seemed to permeate all five of the courses offered currently through this program. The teacher took two weeks to explain the caste system and ethnic groups there, and I still didn't understand it.