Study Abroad

Teaching English as a foreign language can lead to a gap-year experience that lasts a lifetime

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Forget about speed dating. Those looking for love could do worse than sign up for a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course. "We're calling it the China love affair," jokes Vicky Cunningham, senior marketing officer for Bunac, a gap-year provider offering work, teaching and volunteering experiences abroad. "A guy and a girl have just come back from our six-month China programme, doing teaching internships. They met out there and fell head over heels. The girl has now decided to pursue a career in teaching, too, so she's found love and a career off the back of it."

UK students head abroad as fees rise to £9,000

Monday, 11 April 2011

The first concrete signs of a student flight to Europe as the massive UK hike in tuition fees approaches is emerging.

Trinity College Dublin

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Age: 419

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Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Age: 74

"Sprechen sie Deutsch? Nein? No problem..."

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Lucy Lee didn’t have grand globetrotting plans. At school, she assumed she would follow the usual route: GCSEs and A-levels at a local school, hopefully leading to a degree at a UK university. That’s pretty much how things panned out – until she set her heart on postgraduate study at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (KHB) in Berlin.

The Netherlands: you could be on a course by this autumn

Thursday, 24 March 2011

There are only a few easy hurdles to overcome to apply for a place on a course at a Dutch higher education institution.

Educational institutions in the Netherlands

Thursday, 24 March 2011

A list of the major institutions in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Masters: a golden age of opportunity

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Are you thinking about doing a Masters degree or PhD in a European country? There’s no need to learn a foreign language if the Netherlands is your choice.

The Netherlands: cash in on a double dose of Dutch hospitality

Thursday, 24 March 2011

The cost of higher education in the Netherlands may be less than you think. Not only are fees lower than they are in the UK, but extra support is available to British students to help them pay the rent, buy their course equipment, and enjoy the social life their new country of residence has to offer.

The Netherlands: the hardest part is deciding what to study

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Students planning to study for a Bachelors degree in the Netherlands have plenty of options. Despite the country’s diminutive size, it packs in 14 research universities, 39 universities of applied science and five university colleges, all of which combined to offer 1,095 degree programmes taught in English in the 2009-10 academic year, according to the Netherlands Organisation for International Co-operation in Higher Education (Nuffic).