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Foreign Perspectives
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News & commentary from the view of an ex-pat
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Doing courses in a peculiar order
Thanks to the funding issues that the Open University are being hit with I find that I, among many others, am having to rejig my planned schedule of courses into something that can seem slightly crazy sometimes. For instance, to pick up a physics deg...
Low participation = high dropout rate?
Starting a degree at level two causes me the minor problem that I’ll be short 60 points by the time I finish what would have ordinarily been the final course had I started at level one. In the course of looking at how I might pick up those 60 p...
Fitting work into your life
Although we were working pretty hard in the hotel this time last year, I don’t know how we’d manage to fit it into our lives these days. Monday to Friday it sometimes seems like we’re operating an almost full-time taxi service. From...
Is the Open University too open?
One of the great things about the Open University is that you can sign up for pretty much any course that takes your fancy yet that’s also one of the problems with it too from the student point of view. It’s fine if you know what you want...
Wading through the junk mail
One of the biggest problems in getting out of France is the sheer quantity of post and email that continues to generate. This wasn’t so bad when we were actually working in the hotel as we were online daily and keeping on top of everything that...
Administering French life from afar
One of the greatest hassles in our lives at the moment is that we’ve to try to sort out some administration with the French tax and social security people whilst we’re in the UK. You’d think that it would be relatively easy to do as...
