After an unbelievable 10 months away, I returned home at the beginning of July. Sorry for the delay in posting this, it’s been an incredibly hectic couple of weeks seeing family and friends, not to mention settling back in. Packed quite a bit of sightseeing into the final few weeks after semester ended before returning to London for the flight home to Brisbane, Australia Continued here: Back Home Again

The majority of full-time Home and EU undergraduate students starting in September 2008 or continuing from 2006 or 2007 will be entitled to an annual bursary from the University to help with course costs. There is no means testing and you don’t have to pay it back. The amount of the annual bursary increases as you continue your studies to provide support when you need it most. Those students who themselves pay yearly course fees of £3,145 or more, or are taking out a Tuition Fee Loan from [...]

The PTC and City University London are offering a scholarship of £5,000 towards the fees on the MA in Publishing Studies for the academic year commencing September 2008. Funded by the PTC, this new scholarship is designed to tackle the issue of under-representation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups in the book publishing industry in the UK. The 2007 Diversity in Publishing Report showed that only 7.7% of those working in publishing are from a BME background. The scholarship will go to a [...]

Ever dropped your cell phone in the sink, or even worse, the toilet? Did you ever leave it in your pocket and run it through the washer? It usually means you have to replace your phone, but sometimes if you’re fast, you can save the phone. 1. Get it out of the water as soon as possible. The plastic covers on cell phones are fairly tight, but water can enter the phone over time. But this time may be quite short – 20 seconds or less. So grab your phone quickly! If you can’t get to [...]

Almost two years ago on this blog, we talked about the debate in Sweden about whether to charge tuition to international students . The rest is here: Sweden to Charge Non-EU Students