Posted by Kitty (Australia) in Study Abroad on June 9, 2017
When you’re on a Year Abroad, you get used to watching everything back home from a distance – watching friends push through the final year of university towards graduation, seeing the aftermath of terror attacks play out in the news, looking on as the country celebrates achievements in sporting events like the Olympics, and, most […]
Posted in Future, Study Abroad | Tagged Australia, Conservatives, Election, exchange, Home, labour, Leicester, parliament, politics, refrendum, student, Study abroad, University of Leicester, vote, year abroad
Posted by Maria in Study Abroad on November 4, 2016
The end of the exams week was dearly embraced by everyone here in Maastricht. One of my friends and I decided to celebrate it by taking a one-day trip to yet another beautiful Dutch city: the famous Den Haag. The Hague is situated on the Western Coast of the Netherlands and […]
Posted in City, Erasmus, Friends, Holiday, Leisure, Study Abroad | Tagged end of exams, Erasmus, Friends, grote kerk, hague, History, madurodam, peace palace, politics, relax, scheveningen beach, Travel, TRiP, year abroad
Posted by Maria in Study Abroad on October 25, 2016
Yesterday I had my first exam at Maastricht University and it was on EU law. Now, those of you who have had to deal with EU law in the past can probably understand why I decided to write a whole blog post about it. It’s a hard nut to crack! The EU law […]
Posted in Erasmus, Exams, Study Abroad, Studying | Tagged Courses, Erasmus, EU, EU law, Exams, Law, politics, Study abroad, study advice
Posted by Khadija in Study Abroad on June 30, 2016
So in the last week, the UK public voted to leave the EU. That was the most heart-breaking thing for me. I was in so much shock, I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that there were more people who wanted to leave than those who wanted to remain. I was so certain that we’d […]
Posted in City, Future | Tagged Boris, Cameron, Corbin, David, EU, Europe, future, Ireland, Jeremy, Johnson, Life, politics, Referendum, Scotland, UK
Posted by Courtney in Study Abroad on June 30, 2016
I’d feel remiss if I didn’t discuss what the result of the referendum on membership of the European Union means. However, with Article 50 yet to be triggered and negotiations about border restrictions, visas, and trade yet to begin it’s hard to say what leaving the EU will mean for University of Leicester students […]
Posted in News | Tagged Donald Trump, EU, politics
Posted by Joseph in Study Abroad on March 24, 2016
If a hell was to exist, it wouldn’t look a great deal different to the state of our prison system. BY JOSEPH A valid presumption it would be, in presuming not all readers frequently trapes around the deep dark cavities of the internet in search of the latest prison reform policies. Understandable, such ‘ought to be’ […]
Posted in Career, Erasmus, Future, Study Abroad, Studying, Uncategorized | Tagged crime, Criminology, Erasmus, exchange, government, Home, Law, offenders, policy, politics, prison, University of Leicester
Posted by Hâf in Study Abroad on December 7, 2015
Today, The Guardian published their shortlist for Photographer of the Year – 2015. Generally when we think of professional photographers the image that springs to mind is taking photographs of beautiful men and women for fashion and beauty magazines, or paparazzi taking snapshots of the stars at red carpet events. That’s the glamorous definition of […]
Posted in Career, Erasmus, Leisure, News, Study Abroad, Work | Tagged 2015, amateur, avignon, camera, France, images, Leicester, News, parkour, photographs, Photography, politics, Samsung XN3000, snapshot, The Guardian, University of Avignon, University of Leicester, Victoria Park, war
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