Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Work Experience in the UK

Work experience, whether paid or unpaid, is the perfect way to improve language skills and better future career prospects. Paid work is often restricted to the hotel and catering sectors, although providers offer unpaid placements in various fields of expertise including engineering and journalism.


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Chip Shop Colleges are Ruining Britain’s Reputation

UK Scam Colleges a Serious ProblemTens of thousands of bogus students are in Britain because of the “national scandal” of sham colleges that offer courses to foreigners, accoutring to The Times newspaper.


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UK IELTS Test Dates – July and August 2009

Aberdeen
Basil Paterson College (Aberdeen)
Next Test Date: 20-Jun-2009

Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth University
Next Test Date: 23-Jul-2009

Bangor
ELCOS Bangor University, Wales
Next Test Date: 13-Aug-2009

Bath
University of Bath
Next Test Date: 22-Aug-2009

Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast

Birmingham
Aston University
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Bournemouth
Richard Language College (Bournemouth)
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Brighton
Sussex Downs College (test venue in Brighton)
Next Test Date: 04-Jul-2009

Brighton
Eurocentres Brighton (test venue)
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Bristol
University of Bristol
Next Test Date: 13-Jun-2009

Cambridge
Anglia Ruskin University
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

Canterbury
Chaucer College Canterbury
Next Test Date: 04-Jul-2009

Cardiff
Cardiff University
Next Test Date: 29-Aug-2009

Colchester
Colchester English Study Centre
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

Coventry
City College Coventry
Next Test Date: 23-Jul-2009

Eastbourne
Sussex Downs College (Eastbourne)
Next Test Date: 20-Jun-2009

Edinburgh
Basil Paterson College (Edinburgh)
Next Test Date: 20-Jun-2009

Exeter
Exeter College ( Sub Centre of Mayflower College)
Next Test Date: 25-Jul-2009

Glasgow
University of Glasgow
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Guildford, Surrey
University of Surrey
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Harrogate
Harrogate Language Academy
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Leeds
Harrogate Language Academy (Leeds)
Next Test Date: 29-Aug-2009

Liverpool
University of Liverpool
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

London
International House London
Next Test Date: 23-Jul-2009

London
Eurocentres Lee Green
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

London
Southwark College – London
Next Test Date: 25-Jul-2009

London
University of Westminster
Next Test Date: 23-Jul-2009

London
Middlesex University
Next Test Date: 04-Jul-2009

London
Wimbledon School of English
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

London
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

London
Eurocentres London Central (test venue)
Next Test Date: 27-Jun-2009

London
British Institute of Technology and E-commerce, London
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

Manchester
University of Manchester – Language Centre
Next Test Date: 22-Aug-2009

Norwich
Anglia Ruskin University (Norwich)
Next Test Date: 25-Jul-2009

Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

Oxford
King’s School Oxford
Next Test Date: 25-Jul-2009

Plymouth
Mayflower College of English (Plymouth)
Next Test Date: 27-Jun-2009

Portsmouth
Language Specialists International (Portsmouth)
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

Rugby
Warwickshire College
Next Test Date: 27-Jun-2009

Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
Next Test Date: 12-Sep-2009

Southampton
University of Southampton
Next Test Date: 11-Jul-2009

Sunderland
City of Sunderland College
Next Test Date: 08-Aug-2009

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How to Look for Student Part-Time Jobs!

Some of you may find it is quite hard to start looking for part-time jobs when you are international students. I completely understand how you guys feel.


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Student Dropouts Highest in Scotland

Students in Scotland are more likely to drop out of university than elsewhere in the UK. Despite a small improvement on last year, the student dropout rate north of the border is 10.9% compared to the UK average of 9%, figures released recently by the Higher Education Statistics Agency showed.


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Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival 2009

[singlepic id=5 w=250 h=188 float=left]Sun, sea and sand. The key ingredients for any great holiday. But what if you could also add chilled wine, sophisticated beats and sexy people?


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International Student Festival and Study Fair 2009

Next Event: Saturday June 20th 2009, 11am – 5pm

Each year hundreds of thousands of international students flock to the UK enticed by the huge variety of courses on offer at universities, colleges of higher education and further education institutions nationwide.


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Immigration Adviser Jailed over UK’s Biggest visa Fraud

The BBC reports that three people who ran an OISC immigration consultancy business in West London have been jailed today over one of the UK’s largest ever visa scams.


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