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Graduate case studies: Careers with Languages Survey
Written by Lizzie Fane Wednesday, 15 February 2012Calling all language graduates: we need your help!
Please, please will you answer the following questionnaire about your career path: what you're up to, how you got there, the best language jobs you've come across and your top tips for Modern Language students and graduates to help inspire them and show that you can do amazing things with a language degree other than teaching, interpreting and translation?! Thank you so much!
Why are we collecting case studies?
We have been to many events at schools and colleges where the only careers that young students can envisage for language graduates are teaching, interpreting and translation, and unfortunately they are not inspired by this idea at all. In any conceivable way, shape or form. It is therefore up to us to collect many and varied case studies of alternative career paths to upload to TYA and show them the range of jobs they can go into if they can speak a foreign language or two. Thank you so much for helping and please do pass this on to friends if you think they might be interested in helping too :) -
Madeleine Kilminster is in her first year at the University of Birmingham studying French and German, and has just launched a new publication to be distributed around campus and available online. We interview her to find out how and why she set up The Linguist Magazine, and give you a sneak preview and a link to the latest competition to win a large Collins bilingual dictionary!
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I’m the first to admit that I wish I’d taken a year abroad. I took a gap year before university, and I went on to use every possible opportunity to travel in uni holidays etc, but it’s not quite the same thing.
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Hannah Scott is in the second year of her PhD on late nineteenth-century French literature at the University of Bristol, and is the Founder of Glossia, the University's first creative Modern Languages journal. Find out why and how she set up the digital journal and read the first issue below!
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It has been fascinating to hear stories about what the year abroad was like 20-30 years ago. It makes me realise just how easy we have it now, although there were definitely benefits to being more out of the loop and less reliant on the Internet, which our contributors (one who studied abroad, one who worked abroad, one Erasmus student and one language assistant, all in Europe) were quick to point out. I thought I’d compare and contrast “then and now” for you here so you can judge for yourself. Please do let me know if I have missed anything or made any mistakes, and I’ll keep it updated…
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It's our birthday! Two years ago today the switch was flicked and ThirdYearAbroad.com was live. Over the past year we've had 100,000 visits from students who have used our resources and network to help them make important year abroad decisions, and we have...
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To celebrate the launch of Birmingham University's latest publication, The Linguist Magazine, 'a magazine for language learners and culture vultures', we have launched a brand new competition!
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Bristol University Year Abroad photography competition
Written by Lizzie Fane Thursday, 22 December 2011I am so excited that ThirdYearAbroad.com has sponsored the 'unexpected' category of the 2010-11 Year Abroad Photo Competition. I think all the categories (including 'people' and 'places') epitomise the year abroad, but 'unexpected' most of all; not simply because of the untapped personal skills and coping mechanisms you discover while you're away, but the cultural surprises - the things you never expected you would do or see, let alone capture on film! The winning photographs encapsulate adventure and spontaneity, and that is not only how to make the most of your year abroad, but how to take the very best photographs. Congratulations to Laura and Rachel!
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We are very excited to be involved in the British Academy's and UCML's project to help save the funding for the year abroad by inspiring graduates to write quick case studies to show how valuable the experience was for them. Please, please spread the word and get as many of your friends, colleagues and relations to enter as you possibly can! Thank you so much for your help and support, please read on to find out more about how to enter The Year Abroad Graduate Project.
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How to make the most of your study abroad experience
Written by Lizzie Fane Thursday, 03 November 2011I was very excited to be invited by King's College London's Study Abroad Office (@breakfastabroad) to speak to their students about making the most of their time abroad, including the summer holidays before and after. We talked about foreign internships, part-time work, blogging, keeping a vocab book, joining in with local events, taking up courses and classes... in fact, here are my presentation slides so you don't miss out:
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