Nairobi, June 23 -- By the time Dr Liz Njeri boarded a flight to England in 2008, she was ready to abandon medicine altogether.

"I was ready to leave medicine [despite the nine years of training] and do something else," she says. "It was just the frustration of the system, the lack of resources that got me to that point."Her husband's posting to England for postgraduate study became the turning point: what might have been the end of Liz Njeri's medical journey in Kenya instead became the beginning of a new chapter in Britain.

They chose Oxford Brookes University, which offered a partial scholarship for students relocating from developing countries.Her path to the UK was slow. A missing paper derailed her initial visa bid, forcing an app...