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Foreign Perspectives

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News and editorial on life from the south of France, a regular series on how to move here and some random musings too.

• Added on: Feb 25th, 2007
• Country: France
• Language: English

• Author: Arnold
• Listed in: Destinations Travel
• Tags: america miscellaneous moving to france living in france expat life spacer

Recent Posts

• The human biology course vs the cardiovascular diseases one

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 02:59 in education, biology, open university

  Whilst I’m getting into the swing of the human biology course, the cardiovascular diseases one is something else together. In principle, the human biology course as a level 2, 30 point course should clearly be harder than the cardiovascular dis...

• Isn’t the Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check just going through hoops?

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 03:03 in education, legal

  The Vanessa George affair showed the major weakness of the CRB system ie that you’ll get an “all clear” if you haven’t been caught yet. However, the various schools are required to have the CRB check done on anyone who comes i...

• Upgrading the computers to 9.10 ubuntu

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 03:18 in computing, science & technology

  I’ve been weaning everyone off Windows over the past year so we’re getting into the first multi-computer upgrade of Ubuntu. One of the problems seems to be that an Ubuntu upgrade seems to take forever if you’ve been installing bits ...

• Back to school with yet another time change

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 03:21 in education, family

  When John started school this year he only went to noon which wasn’t too bad as it gave us a sensible break before needing to go back for James at 2.30pm. However, they changed that to a 1.30pm finish for John the week before the holidays which...

• Mulling over several competing options for 2010 courses

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 03:00 in education, open university

  If it weren’t for the OU appearing to be about to drop all their science summer schools and consequently their named science degrees, the choices for 2010 would be very easy. First I’d be doing Biological Psychology in February and then i...

• Overlapping courses for the first time

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 04:13 in education, biology, open university

  Thanks to the Child Development exam last week and the revision for it over the previous month, I only got around to signing up for Understanding cardiovascular diseases (SK121) a matter of days ago but this morning the website was already up for me....

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Santosh Nikam

Fantastic blog.................i like it.. .... keep it up

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