PAUL MORAN likes a challenge. So after finishing his degree at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Moran, who is Scottish, decided to go abroad to study for his PhD. He went to the Technical University of Berlin, and despite hardly being able to speak the language at the start, he chose to write his thesis in German. “There was no point in struggling for nearly four years to master the language then not to use it,” he says.
But Moran is the exception. When it comes to work and study, most of us in Europe are stay-at-home types, not…
