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17th December 2011

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People Who Studied Abroad #178:Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (2006-2010) From: Chile Studied: She moved to the United States with her family as a child and attended Western Junior High School in Bethesda, Maryland. She studied medicine at the University of Chile beginning in 1970, but her degree was interrupted when her family was exiled by the Pinochet regime and moved to Australia. She left Australia to go to East Germany, where she studied German at Karl Marx University’s Herder Institute (now the University of Leipzig) and then continued her medical studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She received authorization to return to Chile in 1979 and finished her M.D. there. Chile plans to offer 30,000 scholarships by 2018 through a program called Becas Chile. The $6-billion scheme was started by former President Michelle Bachelet in 2008 and replaced the smaller President of the Republic scholarships. Like in many other national scholarship programs, those who win Becas Chile scholarships sign a contract agreeing to return home after completing their studies and work for “the good of the country.” Its sheer size has proved a particular boon to less-well-off students. “One new student who just came here is from the south of Chile, and five or six years ago that would have been impossible,” said Cristian Castro, a Chilean student earning a doctorate in history at the University of California at Davis. “The best thing that Michelle Bachelet did was to democratize it. People who never imagined leaving the country can now do so.”- “Latin American Countries Push More Students to Study Abroad”

People Who Studied Abroad #178:
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile (2006-2010)

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Chile

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She moved to the United States with her family as a child and attended Western Junior High School in Bethesda, Maryland. She studied medicine at the University of Chile beginning in 1970, but her degree was interrupted when her family was exiled by the Pinochet regime and moved to Australia. She left Australia to go to East Germany, where she studied German at Karl Marx University’s Herder Institute (now the University of Leipzig) and then continued her medical studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She received authorization to return to Chile in 1979 and finished her M.D. there.

Chile plans to offer 30,000 scholarships by 2018 through a program called Becas Chile. The $6-billion scheme was started by former President Michelle Bachelet in 2008 and replaced the smaller President of the Republic scholarships.

Like in many other national scholarship programs, those who win Becas Chile scholarships sign a contract agreeing to return home after completing their studies and work for “the good of the country.” Its sheer size has proved a particular boon to less-well-off students.

“One new student who just came here is from the south of Chile, and five or six years ago that would have been impossible,” said Cristian Castro, a Chilean student earning a doctorate in history at the University of California at Davis. “The best thing that Michelle Bachelet did was to democratize it. People who never imagined leaving the country can now do so.”

- “Latin American Countries Push More Students to Study Abroad”

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