Partha Kar: Our international graduates need far better support

I’ll never forget saying goodbye to my father when I’d first come to the UK to work as a doctor. He came with me from India to help me settle in and to ensure that his son was starting off on the right foot in a foreign country—cold and wet, but with hopes of a bright future. I remember giving him a tearful hug, wondering why I was doing this. My heart ached as he disappeared into the distance on a National Express coach. I remember viscerally the sheer loneliness I felt.I was in a new country, surrounded by new gizmos, not knowing the rules, while looking to scrounge for every penny and doing mental maths of currency conversion. My first few weeks in the UK were, frankly, awful. Not many people would talk to me, which heightened an inherent shyness.A particularly low point came one evening, when I went…
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