My experience: Travel-Study-Work in London

      

       This month is one of my big memories as I've been completely living in London for 2 years so far! I've learned so many things during living abroad. I got a awesome moment and a deep awful feeling. I left home with a strong intention to explore the world in order to study and travel. At the moment, I'm lucky that I got jobs so I'm able to spend my own money. I supposed to not get any penny from my mom since I came here. There is obviously hard to manage everything to keep on track. My each week is always busy. I'm trying to make a balance between studying and working. Afterward, I will take chance to travel in Europe countries as I wish before going back to Thailand in 7 months.

       Fortunately, I'm here in London and I really enjoy every single moment in each day. On the other hand, nobody knows, how much I  had mad to get through my terrible situation. Keep in mind before deciding to live abroad that you will definitely feel homesick, miss friends and all of your stuff, be alone in an unexpected situation, get some problems at work or finance. However, if you would have an opportunity to go abroad, let's take a good chance for your lifetime. It's worth!!! It's much more better to do it when you are still young. That means you haven't got lots of responsibilities to pay for car, property, family and so on. 

Changing the rules of student visa will be modifying on 4 July 2011.

        Again!The rules will be changed again. It is a good current data and is very useful for international students. The Immigration Rules affecting Tier 4 [the student tier]. There is much more difficult and restrict work entitlements to migrants studying at higher educational institutions (HEIs) and publicly funded further education colleges only. Fortunately, I am still able to work in the new rules as 20 hours per week but is sadly for others who study in English Language Institute. They are not allow to work at all. Some more information is available, check it out at...

http://ukinthailand.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=PressR&id=614669382

Holiday in Somerset, Exeter, Exmoor 2011

My holiday was such a wonderful summer. I've been to Somerset for 4 days and visited around to Exeter and Exmoor as well. Travel by train from London waterloo station to Taunton station costs about 44 pounds[return ticket].

Somerset- It was a very pleasant small town. I lived in my relatives house during the holiday. A back yard filled with beautiful flower variety and the next door, it provides tourists to visiting antiques, 6 pounds for the entrance. Beauty that has become clear from the photos below.

Exmoor- I've been to Tarr Steps. It's one of national park in the UK. Tarr Steps is known as an ancient clapper bridge spanning across the River Barle. The bridge is probably medieval around 950 years ago. On that day I visited there had a special event for summer time in the cantre of Exmoor. The evant seemed to be a Dance contest.

Exeter- It's a cosy small town. In the center of the city that combines ancient art of Exeter Cathedral  and Shopping centre harmoniously. There is one of a cities where is Asian students are interested in attending a class in University.

 

Six primary attractiveness of the UK University

The attraction of the UK University is concerned the six primary attractiveness factor for Thai student.

• High standard of education: link to the process of education. There is broadly accorded to the good academic reputation, social support, flexibility and also diversity of subject delivered. For example, teaching skills of professor, resources, political, cultural and environment around the local country.
• Employment prospects: there is a factor which related to the outcome. It consults about the value of a quality of destination country with the local and global markets. It includes both the competence to obtain employment as good as the relative return into the labour market.
• Budget: the cost for living in the UK and tuition fees in a particular of traveling for study destination. In fact that the developing countries are being a high performance.
• Security: there is referring to a decision for traveling in general of safety and personal security in a destination. For example, a student has a relationship with friends or cousins who are able to help and access some convenience.
• Lifestyle: it fills up the student’s life more colorful and attracted them with activities such as music, sports, fashion, place to visit, and nightlife as well as learning a difference culture such as a local tradition, rule, and communication.
• Accessibility of education: it defined to involve students by offering several of an interesting programme persuade into entering the particular destination. In contrast, there is some inaccessibility which includes supply side such as visa regulation that set up many demanding, especially for Asian.

Statement of the problem [Thai students]

Nowadays studying aboard seems to become real problems, firstly  a high fashion for social life to be intend and sometime teenagers speak to mix Thai and English together. There points out that slang words are increasing to ruin the traditional Thai language. A recent common viewpoint is that efforts to preserve the traditional peace of Thai language in television broadcast.

Secondly, deceivable agencies are appeared in some part of Thailand especially in eastern Thailand. In order to mislead women to be as prostitute because they are poor and lack of a proper education so they are easy to believe those agencies. There are many methods to achieve this wrong market that make troubles and reasons are not well understood.

Thirdly, It is generally thought the fashion trend in travel to study abroad is increasing. There can be say that from the growth of the agencies in kind of a small business.  Some people believe that will be a good opportunity for working aboard. They might get a better hire than working in their own home because of the current money exchange in the UK.  The valuable money can be a double profit when exchange to Baht (Thai currency). So, they pretend to be as a student but not attend in class. There is clear from the above that problem need to sort out.

How much money do international students need to spend for tuition fees in the UK?

           

            Basically, international students travel for study outside the EU countries by spending full- cost tutor fees in the UK universities. There seems likely to be in the range of the university profiles. In fact that the difference of the loans and grants between UK and EU students. In contrast a large number of international students intend to Britain get paid from their home financial support. It must be emphasised that UK scholarships for international students, whether from the UK government, sponsors or the individual universities themselves are limited. The vast majority are for post-graduate study, although there are one or two schemes for which undergraduates can be considered in exceptional circumstances. Students from overseas are strongly advised, therefore, to make sure they have sufficient funds for the full tuition fees and all necessary living costs before leaving home. Remember that students should be asked to guarantee in writing that they have sufficient funds for the complete duration of your course. Estimates suggest that living costs alone could amount to £7,500 and considerably more in London. It is virtually impossible to arrange financial support once they have left their own country.

Tuition fees for international students (2011)

Subject	£ Sterling
Humanities and Social Sciences	£9,000–£10,800
Sciences and Engineering	£10,200–£13,800
Clinical subjects	£23,200–£26,000

Top 27 countries: international students come from?

EU countries	No.	%	Non-EU countries	No.	%
France	6803	12.0%	China	16887	17.6%
Germany	6623	11.7%	Malaysia	7684	8.0%
Ireland	6497	11.4%	Hong Kong	6614	6.9%
Poland	5519	9.7%	India	4247	4.4%
Greece	4683	8.2%	Cyprus	4220	4.4%
Cyprus	2685	4.7%	Nigeria	3639	3.8%
Spain	2466	4.3%	United States	3395	3.5%
Sweden	2191	3.9%	Pakistan	2677	2.8%
Italy	2130	3.8%	Singapore	1912	2.0%
Lithuania	1988	3.5%	Norway	1806	1.9%
Belgium	1628	2.9%	Korea (South)	1788	1.9%
Bulgaria	1519	2.7%	Japan	1742	1.8%
Portugal	1327	2.3%	Sri Lanka	1630	1.7%
Romania	1314	2.3%	Canada	1526	1.6%
Netherlands	1258	2.2%	Kenya	1348	1.4%
Finland	1139	2.0%	Russia	1181	1.2%
Latvia	1097	1.9%	United Arab Emirates	1086	1.1%
Slovakia	900	1.6%	Brunei	1080	1.1%
Czech Republic	724	1.3%	Bangladesh	1062	1.1%
Austria	718	1.3%	Saudi Arabia	1056	1.1%
Hungary	712	1.3%	Mauritius	1000	1.0%
Estonia	676	1.2%	Zimbabwe	902	0.9%
Denmark	656	1.2%	Vietnam	888	0.9%
Luxembourg	650	1.1%	Switzerland	887	0.9%
Gibraltar	488	0.9%	Iran	844	0.9%
Malta	238	0.4%	Thailand	758	0.8%
Slovenia	112	0.2%	Kazakhstan	680	0.7%
All EU Countries	Total	56772	All non-EU Countries	Total	96089

     The pursuit of overseas students has become big business - with UK universities competing with higher education institutions in countries such as the United States and Australia (BBC, 2011). It has been found that the UK is recorded the second biggest destination for overseas students after the US and a market which had increased to become Australia’s third biggest export. Today in the UK, the current level of anxiety over proposed student visa restrictions reveals how much universities have come to depend on the income from overseas students (Coughlan, 2010).