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19 Apr

Elite universities are falling short on their green promises…

With the world’s annual climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow this year, you would expect the UK’s top research-intensive universities to be leading the response to the climate emergency. After all, they can readily draw upon expert advice. They should be showing the way to becoming zero carbon institutions. But ambitious targets drawn up a decade ago for English universities to cut carbon use by 43 percent by 2020 have mostly been missed. In 2019 it was reported that less than a third of all UK universities were likely to meet this goal. Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency also show that [...]

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27 Jan

Why studying abroad could help you get hired

Want to increase your chances of landing a job after graduation? Go see the world. A recent study investigating the impact of mobility on employability, skills development, institutional development and the internationalization of higher education institutions in Europe has shown that students who study abroad have a better shot at finding a job after graduation than those who don’t. On average, Erasmus students were more likely to get a job after studying abroad than 70% of all students. Based on their personality traits as well, the study showed they had a better predisposition for employability even before going abroad. By the time they returned to their country [...]

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20 Jan

Top 10 colleges for undergraduate students in 2021

As a high school student planning to go to college, there are a few things you should know before applying to universities abroad. You need to find out which country offers the degree you’re looking for, see if you’re qualified to get into a university there, figure out how much studying abroad will cost, and then learn to prepare for the SATs. Yes, the process might be long and tedious, but an international experience is totally worth it! This list of top colleges for undergraduate students and what they have to offer is going to be enough to convince [...]

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20 Jan

Preparing to Study Abroad: What You Don’t Already Know

Before you go abroad, people flood your mind with all of the “things” you HAVE to do before you embark on your amazing new journey. Visas, currency exchanges, and packing are certainly on the pre-study-abroad to-do list, but there are many things they don’t tell you. I’m here to tell you the things you don’t already know about how to prepare for studying abroad. If you don’t wear it in the United States, chances are you will not wear it abroad. Packing for a 4-month, 2-month, or yearlong journey can be quite the daunting task. You try your very best to pack [...]

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20 Jan

How Study Abroad Transformed My Social Life

As I boarded the plane last year at my connection in Munich on the way to my study abroad location in Seville, Spain, I squinted suspiciously at the crowd around me. My stomach threatening to flip inside out, I committed myself to the task of examining my fellow passengers, many of whom were around my age and laden with bulging carry-ons like mine. How many of them were study abroad students? Would any of them be in my program? And most importantly, did they seem nice? It’s hard to judge a stranger’s character from a wordless airport encounter, especially when that stranger [...]

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