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Back to School Phone Card Special Offer
As students all across the country head back to school for the start of the new semester – international students are heading to orientation and making their final preparations so they can enroll in class. One of the requirements many schools have, is that students either enroll in their school’s insurance plan or they have to show proof of coverage that meets certain requirements.
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International Student Insurance – School Requirements
Entrepreneurial situations in large companies differ from that of startups, yet one thing that they seem to share is that they often represent “hope” in one way or another.
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A Peek At The Difficulties of Incubating New Initiatives Within Large Companies
Over the past week there has been a new wave of email scams who are targeting internet users all around the world to part with their personal and financial details. The scam email appears to come from the hiring manage of the International Student Exchange Center – telling them about an excellent new area representative job and if you are interested you should apply with your personal details and CV
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Email Scam – Nothing to do with InternationalStudent.com!
After reporting earlier this year about the new student visa clampdown that was about to take effect in the UK, and how these new changes were going to threaten most English Schools in the UK , English UK challenged the government over these new regulations and won! On the 8th July 2010 Mr Justice Foskett, sitting in London, declared the fresh restrictions had been achieved through altering guidelines when there should have been a formal change to the rules, with the matter referred back to Parliament. English UK are now asking that the rules be reverted back to the days prior to March 3rd when students could come to the UK to study English with only basic English language skills. Tony Milns, chief executive of English UK, said: “This judgment upholds our basic case that the Home Secretary was wrong to introduce a substantive change … without laying that change before Parliament.” English UK estimates the ruling has saved “more than £3,000 jobs and over £600 million a year in foreign earnings”.
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English UK Wins High Court Battle
InternationalStudent.com recently launched its Study in the USA School Search – allowing international students to search, research and contact colleges and universities in the USA. The new search tool can be found online at: http://www.internationalstudent.com/school-search/usa/ We also have a useful video which will show you the main features and how to use the new school search:
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Study in the USA School Search – Video
Prepaid calling card troublesDepending on who you ask, prepaid calling cards are either a tremendous rip-off or a fantastic money saver — but based on an ongoing government crackdown against shady operators, lots of customers are getting far less than they paid for. So what’s a consumer to do?
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Prepaid calling cards: Beware misleading call times and hidden fees
Adrian C. Ott, CEO and founder of Exponential Edge Inc. , included me on her distribution list for an advanced reading copy of her new book, The 24-Hour Customer
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Perspectives on “The 24-Hour Customer” (Strategy, Marketing, and Innovation Book) in Context of Marketing Segmentation
As college athletics in the USA continues to grow more and more competitive, colleges look internationally for athletes more than ever. The NCAA, the body governing all inter-collegiate athletics in the USA, has developed some resources to help determine eligibility of an international student to compete for a US college or university in inter-collegiate sports.
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International Student Athletes in the USA
Glee , the popular American musical comedy-drama satire television series is going international with the international pop star Charice joining the cast as an international exchange student. Charice rose to popularity mainly via Youtube, but is now a worldwide singing sensation thanks to support from people like Oprah Winfrey. Details of who she will be playing are still not 100% clear, but she will be joining season 3 as an exchange student from Asia
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International Pop Star Joins Glee Cast
For students who are going to study/ travel or live in the UK, making sure you have access to an international calling solution from the UK will save you a lot of money! No expensive roaming charges, and quick/ easy access to call your family and friends whenever you want to. Thanks to our iCallAbroad UK service, you can place international calls from either a landline or mobile phone from as little as 1p per minute.
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Low Cost International Calls in the UK
One of the best ways to stay in touch with family and friends is by using prepaid calling cards. If you travel or if you live in another country or state calling cards offer an economical way to keep in touch by phone with your friends and family. When you use them you can save lots of money on long distance charges from your phone carrier.
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Calling Cards Come In Many Varieties and Flavors
Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group and co-author of the bestselling book Groundswell , was generous to include me on her distribution list for an advanced reading copy of her new book Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead .
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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)
InternationalStudent.com is proud to launch its new International Student Concierge Service , dedicated to helping international students all around the world with finding and researching schools and evaluating your education options. The new, totally free service, allows you to submit your details which will be sent to schools all around the USA who are interested and looking for international students.
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International Student Concierge Service
Thousands of Indian students are struggling to get their prepaid tuition refunded from Australian schools and colleges. The situation has come to light following the collapse of colleges and a clamp down of the Australian immigration system.
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Indian Students Struggling to get Tuition Back
It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general. In particular, the book does two important things beyond other strategy books: it breaks down the ivory tower of centralized strategy and addresses, in detail, the roles and responsibilities that each employee must fulfill in the new model, and the book explicitly documents a collaborative process that one can use to develop strategy, a process which from my vantage point has only been addressed either through mentorship and transfer of tacit knowledge or in fragments within other documents
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Book Review of “The New How” (Business Strategy Book)
A few months back, we launched our first venture into the mobile smartphone market with the International Student iPhone App . To widen our user base, we now have the pleasure in launching the Android version of the same application – available free of charge to all android users. The new android application provides you with all the same functionality of the iPhone application such as instant access to our blog feed, live view of our twitter feed, the opportunity to share information you see with twitter or facebook and much more
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Android App Now Available
Airtel is going global. With its calling card service Airtel Callhome, NRIs residing in the US, UK, Canada and many other countries are already calling their friends and family back in India
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Airtel Callhome launches plans for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Philippines
As many times I have written a “business plan”, it seems the flavor of it can vary quite substantially. I think the notion of this catches a good number of people by surprise. And why shouldn't that be the case? Many textbooks and templates seem to cover business plan outlines with relatively similar structures.
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The Business Plan Is Alive And Well But It May Not Be What You Think
April 1st 2010 is National Census day in the USA, and the day that the US Census Bureau encourages everyone to mail in their completed forms. If you are not familiar with the US Census, it runs every 10 years and is designed to count every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution.
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US Census 2010 for International Students
The British Council has warned UK Universities not to treat foreign or international students as “cash cows” as recruitment drives pick up by schools in the UK to attract more students from abroad. The stark warning comes as declining budgets mean that Universities are looking at other avenues with which increase their cash flow. International Students are one way that most Universities are looking to increase their revenues and plug the gap from falling budgets – as most can and will charge international students full tuition fees
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British Council warns UK Universities
Recently I found myself in the doctor's office seeking advice on a health issue I had been having with finger & joint pain. The way these conversations played out (with me in a reverse role as a client) triggered some thoughts about client-consultant communications that I thought I'd share here. Now as context, many services relationships with medical professionals can be viewed as similar to consultant-client relationships. For example, David Maister (professional services guru, now retired) has characterized analogous medical professional types (to consultant types) as pharmacists, nurses, brain surgeons, and psychotherapists
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The Power of Using "We" In Client-Consultant Communications
With the World Cup just under 80 days away – the tension and excitement is starting to build as the world biggest tournament prepares to get underway. The 2010 tournament is held every four years, and this time around South Africa are the hosts – and people from all around the world will converge on the African Nation.
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World Cup 2010 – Travel Health Insurance
One technique that I tend to use a lot in management meetings and consulting engagements involves the use of two slide types.
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Using The "Seeding" And "Facilitating" Approach In Management Meetings And Consulting Engagements
The tax season is right upon us, and for international students navigating the complex US tax system is not an easy task. The first thing to note is that ALL international students who were in the USA during the last year will need to submit and file their taxes – even if you received no income! So now that we are clear that all students will need to file their taxes and submit at least one form, the next step is to work out what forms need to be completed: Form 8843 – Must be filed by ALL international students present in United States to exclude the days of presence from the Substantial Presence Test.
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International Student Taxes 2010
The introduction of new product or service lines into an existing customer base is a challenge that companies often face with new business development. Sometimes the opportunities can be readily quantified using traditional financial analysis (e.g., using net present value, scenario, and waterfall buildup methods).
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Using a “Frontier Chart” to Evaluate and Plan Project Portfolio Strategy
The new visa rules that emerged last month for the UK were unveiled Wednesday (10th February 2010) by the home secretary Alan Johnson. There were large concerns that the new proposed rule changes would impact English language schools , as it would increase the level of english required by applicants to a level that would rule out most students who come to the UK to study English. The new rules to the “Points Based UK Visa System” was partially in response to a scam where older international female students were applying as a student to also bring in their husbands to the UK as dependents, and as such the changes are as follows: Require overseas students to have higher standards of English (the equivalent of just below GCSE), Halving the amount of time students can work each term-time week to 10 hours Banning dependents of anyone studying for less than six months
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Student Visa Clampdown Confirmed for the UK
As we highlighted in our previous post, mobile phone companies tend to hit those who travel or study abroad with high roaming costs if you use your mobile phone when abroad. Our post identified some key areas to help students minimize these costs and avoid any high charges or unexpected phone bills. Of course, the key to using your phone abroad is that its easy and convenient
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New USA Sim Card Options
In a move that has been designed to target the international education industry in both the UK and Australia, after both countries have had very public issues with visa issuance/ bogus schools and violence towards international students , the Canadian province of Quebec is now offering all international students who graduate from any university in the province, a fast track to Canadian Citizenship. The move was announced earlier this week as the province’s premier, Jean Charest, visited India and met with students and scholars from the University of Mumbai. Starting February 14th, international students who graduate from universities in Quebec would get “a certificate of selection” that would put them on a fast track to Canadian citizenship.
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Citizenship for Canadian International Students
THE SARA’S WISH FOUNDATION In 1996, Sara Schewe, a student at Georgetown University, was killed, along with 3 other students from her program, while taking a bus in India to see the Taj Mahal. Since that time, Charles and Anne Schewe have dedicated themselves to bringing awareness on how to minimize safety issues while traveling abroad.
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Study Abroad Safety – Know Before You Go