Keeping that career focus

It’s important to make the most of your year abroad and also to keep your focus on graduation and beyond. Here’s a good article on this topic.

Keeping career-focused on your year abroad

Appendicitis abroad

What to do if you get appendicitis on your year abroad: advice from a recently-recovered student in Bayreuth

Appendicitis abroad

A Year Abroad in France

An interview with Leanne Dickinson who studied in Aix-en-Provence over the past academic year.

Link to interview.

 

Study Abroad

Are you interested in studying abroad? If so, StudyPortals could help you find the right course – it works to explain the options available when choosing courses in Europe, and lists 1,200 universities in 40 countries. Bertrand Laborde tell us more (the video is in French).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqwTgWhYrk

Simultaneous interpreting

Dick Fleming talks about starting simultaneous interpreting.
Dick formerly organized European Commission interpreter training and training of interpreter trainers.

If you are looking for tips on how to improve your simultaneous interpreting, there are lots of blogs giving advice, like this one at baBeLOG.

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

Alex Rawlings provides samples of his 11 active languages in this clip. Unfortunately he does not really say how he managed to learn them all, except that his ears are more important than his eyes.

What is your experience? Eyes or ears?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17107435

Grundtvig

The Grundtvig programme is part of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, offering funding to adult learners who would like to take up a work placement.

Assistantships grants are available for individuals to improve and develop skills while working within a European adult education provider.

You can learn about the different practices involved in adult organisations in Europe while enhancing your professional development. By being fully integrated into your host organisation you can assist with formal or in-formal learning by providing support for adults with special educational needs or assisting in the teaching of English or by managing aspects of adult education.

• Deadline for applications is 28 March 2013.
• Assistantships can last between 13 – 45 weeks.
• You will need to find a host organisation in a participating country willing to support your training activity.
• Your application needs to show a clear link to your work, or learning, within adult education.
• You must not have previously received Grundtvig Assistantships funding.

Next step: if you are interested in applying for Assistantships funding then your next step will be to find a host organisation and develop your application and apply.