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Overview
• General info.• Options• Finance• Student presentations• Any questions
General info.
• Final deadline: usually in Trinity Term• Other deadlines much earlier• Two languages: flexible e.g. two “semesters”• Forms for Faculty (and Colleges) with your
whereabouts, activity, plan of study, etc. • Look out for messages from Faculty Office,
College Offices, etc.
Options
• Paid work in teaching e.g. British Council• Courses of study e.g. Erasmus exchange• Other work: paid or unpaid
Paid work in teaching
• British Council– Information at
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistants-how-do-i-apply-2.htm
– Inform College tutor and referees asap. – Competitive programme – Firm commitment to the programme if you apply
• Other paid work in teaching e.g. English schools overseas – at Tutor’s discretion.
Courses of study
• Courses of study e.g. Erasmus exchange• Exchange available with Salamanca University– Information sheet
• Other university study e.g. UBA, Buenos Aires; UNAM Mexico – UCBC, Santiago de Chile
• Informal agreement to undertake teaching and study. • One student visited last year.
• Student may explore own options, at Tutor’s discretion
Other work: paid or unpaid
• See Careers Service website– http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/
• Some recent employers include:– Sotheby’s, Madrid; L’Oreal internships
• Must be non-Anglophone environment and suitable work
• Seek Tutor’s advice if in doubt • Volunteering work
– Above conditions apply– Be wary of agencies charging high fees to arrange places
Finance
• Tuition fee for all Home/EU students on their compulsory year abroad will be 15% of the maximum tuition fee, which will be £1,350 in 2014-15.
• This fee is the same regardless of whether they are undertaking an Erasmus placement or not.
• Overseas and Islands students will continue to pay half their full-time tuition fee.
• New Erasmus+ programme is starting from 2014-15 (details tbc).• Erasmus and other funding available
– Erasmus• Erasmus study exchanges; British Council assistantships; Eligible work/internships• Forms required by University/Erasmus
– Loan and means-tested Govt. Support– College travel grants– Junior Heath Harrison Travel Scholarship– Year Abroad Travel Hardship fund
Student presentations
• Student experiences during Year Abroad.
Any questions?
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