We all love our mobile phones, they provide such a high level of convenience that most people do not want to go without them. However, although you may travel well, its most likely that your existing mobile phone provider and contract in your home country will not travel well with you.
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Avoiding Roaming Costs as an International Student
In the past year I ran into a situation (mid-project in the capacity as an independent consultant) where the client was incorporating materials from my deliverables plus information from one of the major, worldwide strategy consulting firms that was also working in the same area as I was. In this case, I think it was beneficial because it is a high-stakes strategy area which requires mutiple perspectives, innovation, and cross-checking. Yet it made me recall some other situations where other consulting firms had been used in closely-related or overlapping areas
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What Are Your Thoughts On Hiring Two Consulting Firms At The Same Time?
Phone cards make it easy to phone home no matter where you are in the world without costing you an arm and a leg. Because of this, it is recommended that you always travel with at least a few phone cards with you.
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Traveling Frequently – Don’t Forget To Carry Your Phone Card for Calling Home
We have just added two new schools to our online university video profiles page for schools in the UK. If you are looking to study in the UK , our video profiles are a great way to learn more about schools in the UK. The new schools added include the University of Westminster and Swansea University – and you can see the new profiles below: If you would like to add your schools video to our site – please contact us
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Study in the UK – New Video Profiles
Foreign students represent a huge revenue source for the big players in the market. For example, the UK and Australia have an international student market that is estimated to be worth €12 billion and countries like New Zealand receives around €1.5 billion per year
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Ireland drops the ball attracting International Students
For the last 10 years in the USA there has been a marked decline in the number of public schools opting to teach a foreign language. However, contrary to this trend, there has been a rush in recent years by schools to offer Chinese – and the Chinese government has been helping out too, paying up to 50% of Chinese teachers salaries. In this economic environment, it seems schools are finding this prospect too good to refuse! In one school in Ohio, the Chinese language program was introduced in 2007 with 20 students – and now has over 80
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Teaching Foreign Languages Fade……. Except Chinese!
Apple revolutionary vision and the iPhone may have met their match with Google’s Nexus One. While Steve Wozniak is not giving up his iPhone he was impressed with the Nexus One he received from Google executive Andy Rubin. Just how do the two phones compare with each other?
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Will Google’s Nexus One usurp the iPhone Market?
English as a second language is a thriving industry in the UK, with an estimate 600,000 students traveling to the UK each year to study. More than half of these also then go on to higher education courses – and for this reason the English Language industry brings in over £1.5bn to the British economy each year. However, the booming industry has some major concerns regarding the new points based visa system.
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New Visa Rules Threaten UK English Language Schools
Here at InternationalStudent.com, we are horrified at the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti, and our thoughts are with the staggering number of people impacted by this disaster. Schools have been scrambling to locate and evacuate their study abroad students in Haiti. Lynn University and the University of Florida, among others, have been working around the clock to ensure the safety of their students. You can read the updates that Lynn University provides on its website , and there is also an excellent article by Karin Fischer in the Chronicle of Higher Education talking about location and evacuation efforts.
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Schools Scramble to Evacuate Students From Haiti
As we reported in our January issue of the International Student News , there has been a recent spate of attacks against international students in Australia, and most notably on students who are studying there from India. The problems have been grumbling for a while and came to a head earlier this month when accounting graduate Nitin Garg, 21, originally from the state of Punjab in northern India, was stabbed to death on January 2nd when on his way to a job at a fast food outlet in Melbourne
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Attacks on International Students in Australia
At the end of 2009, there were nearly 34 million iPhones that had been sold around the world and without question it is the number 1 mobile device available on the market at this time. If you are lucky enough to have an iPhone, InternationalStudent.com has just launched its first iPhone App and its totally free! http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-international-student/id349799583?mt=8 The new iPhone app allows you to keep up-to-date with all the latest news and information from InternationalStudent.com by allowing you to read our blog and twitter account in one simple app.
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iPhone App – Now Available
Now that the dust has finally settled on another holiday period, we would like to formally introduce our two new student bloggers into the International Student family. Regular visitors to our site will have already met and know about our new bloggers as they were both winners in our 2009 travel video contest , one actually winning the contest and the other coming in third. Sandy Florez – Study Abroad Blogger Sandy was our winner in the 2009 travel video contest with her fantastic video “Hello 2 Ciao” which charted her desire to travel to Italy to study abroad.
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Welcome to our New Student Bloggers
The latest edition of the International Student News have been sent and should be currently sitting in your inbox if you are a current subscriber. This month we have lots of articles and items to help you kick start 2010 – including: Save on your Student Insurance plan Welcoming our New Student Bloggers International Student Essentials 2010 Student News – Violence Against Indian Students in Australia Continues From the Mailbag Fun Site of the Month Roehampton University in the UK You can see the latest version of our newsletter online now also at: http://www.internationalstudent.com/newsletter/issue131.html
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International Student News – Issue 131
With the new year now upon us, 2010 already looks to be another big year for international education. As we reported in our Financial Aid Blog, 2009 saw record numbers in the USA for international students with a large 8% increase in the numbers from the previous year. With the worldwide recession and the recent tightening of air security some think that students could be discouraged from studying abroad – but we at InternationalStudent.com believe strongly that, with ongoing government initiatives, the support of the international education community and a little push from us, the overall numbers will continue to grow! The financial scenario for international students has changed over the past two years, mainly due to the recession which has had a large impact on the availability of financial aid and international student loans
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International Student Essentials for 2010
One of the projects I have been working on recently with a partner involves helping an incumbent software vendor explore new business opportunities and facilitating strategy direction with the leadership team. The project involves research & planning with culmination of a key phase being a go/no-go and a commitment of money for development.
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Perspectives on Facilitating a Consulting Engagement Related to Business Development and Innovation
I don't often point to comments in other blogs, but Ian Brodie shares some good perspectives on consultants using Twitter ( link ). It is worth a read if you are a professional consultant and trying to update your perspectives on Twitter usage. I'd agree with a lot of Ian's writeup with two adds for me that Twitter allows me to 1) interact with a wide demographic of people, and 2) experiment with ideas more frequently (albeit more limited) than other social media mechanisms.
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Perspectives On Consultants Using Twitter
Well I suppose technically speaking I learned this as part of instructional and experiential sessions at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Duke's Fuqua School of Business, but I didn't pick up improvisation instruction at the Chicago Booth School of business more than a decade ago when I first got my MBA (side note: a cohesive mix of business theory and improv training definitely would have been good for prepping the cohorted classes). Without getting technical and being too precise, what does improvisation mean to me (apologies to my mentors for cutting corners)?
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What I Didn’t Learn In Business School I Learned From Improvisation Instructors
The latest edition of the International Student Newsletter was released earlier this week crammed full (as usual) with load of information, news and advice for international students. This month we feature the winning videos from our 2009 Travel Video contest: We have a winner! ISE Cards Learn English – BAE Student News From the Mailbag Fun Site of the Month Student Insurance If you are not a subscriber you can sign up now by visiting our newsletter homepage: http://www.internationalstudent.com/newsletter/ You can also read the latest edition online at: http://www.internationalstudent.com/newsletter/issue130.html
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International Student News – Issue 130
Recently as I was parked outside of a client site, I was approach by a man who gestured to me to roll down my driver’s side window. He commented that I looked stressed. He started to indicate that I was a nice man, a good man, but that I should not let things distress me so
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Mystery of the Mind Trick: Can You Get Someone to Say “We Should Cancel Thanksgiving Because It Is Cruel to Turkeys”?
Linda VandeVrede invited me to post on her blog regarding brand-related topics, and I did so by providing some perspectives on “personal branding”. “Personal branding” is not a widely understood term, so readers may find it interesting from a career and personal development perspective.
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Stretching Your Personal Brand Through Brand Management Concepts
Airtel Callhome brings more cheers to Indians living in the US. For Indians who want to call back family and friends in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and also Mumbai, Airtel Callhome has launched the Mharo plan which will make calling cheaper, yet again. Some highlights of the Mharo plan from Airtel Callhome are as given below: Now, on the Mharo plan you can call Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra at an effective rate of 1.25 cents/min on local access! The $14.99 plan has an administration fee of $6.00, on the balance $8.99 you get the rate of 0.75 cents/min on local access.
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Airtel Callhome announces Mharo plan for calling Gujarat, Rajasthan & Maharashtra
The 2009 International Student Travel Video Contest has now closed! This year we received more entries than ever before and some fantastic entries which we are sure will make you laugh. Check out Gorilla Dream, Milkland, Hello 2 Ciao, The Study Abroad Show and so many more fantastic entries – you have literally hours of videos you can watch! http://www.internationalstudent.com/contest/ We also want your help – what videos do you like the most? Submit your votes to internationalstudentcontest@gmail.com and tell us your top 5 videos and why you choose them! We would also like to thank everyone who entered this year, we have literally been amazed by the quality of some of your work and our judging panel has a lot of hard work ahead to choose our winner! The winners will be announced during International Education Week so keep checking back during the 16th to 20th November for the lucky top 3 and our winner!
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Video Contest Closed – Submit your Votes!
The latest issue of the International Student News has been released and will be sitting in your inbox for our over 150,000 international students subcribers! This month we have some exciting news with the closing of our International Student Travel Video contest and some amazing videos, check it out: Travel Video Contest Closing Entries International Student Insurance ELI at Jacksonville State Student News From the Mailbag Fun Site of the Month T-Mobile USA Sim Card If you do not subscribe to our newsletter then please so so by visiting: http://www.internationalstudent.com/newsletter/ You can also read this months newsletter online at: http://www.internationalstudent.com/newsletter/issue129.html
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Issue 129 – International Student News
Earlier this year I had heard from sources at various business schools that given the recession and slower consulting and investment banking hiring, a lot of MBA graduates were looking to careers in business development. This is a great development, but in my experience the term “business development” means quite different things to different people.
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Business Development May Be On The Upswing Careerwise, But What Is Business Development?
Recently I found myself describing (in somewhat abstract terms) how a particular consulting engagement should come together. The upshot of my argument was that given a particular statement of work, there are a number of “ways to skin a cat” and get an engagement team to gel. In this particular case, my feeling was that an engagement approach would be equally valid if the team shifted the basis of consulting towards one of the three prototypes I describe below (even if it meant shifting away from another).
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Three Prototypical Styles of Consulting
Planning a vacation trip could easily make you so excited especially if you are going to visit another country that is famous for its beautiful attractions and tourist spots. Just thinking about all the fun that you are about to experience is enough to send a good feeling and will make you anticipate your vacation even more. Your mind will be occupied with all the things that you will need to take care of before leaving and all the preparations needed like the things that you need to bring especially if you are going to travel with your family.
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Don’t Go on a Vacation Trip without Calling Cards
The following backdrop and questions apply to this part of the series of musings and open discussion on entrepreneurs and decision-making (See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 . Note that there will likely be a total of six parts for this series with a recap summary of feedback at the end): One difference between time and money is that money can be stored (inventoried) for future use, but time cannot – it’s use it or lose it. This allows money to be fungible; you can move it around as you need it
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Musings And Dialogue On Entrepreneurs And Decision Making (Part 5)
As the economy is facing tough times now, a smart person should look for smarter ways to spend money. Mobile phones are essential necessities in the modern world and you should look for ways to reduce expenses related to phone. According to recent studies, people all around the world waste several billions by choosing wrong cell phone tariffs.
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How to Choose a Cell Phone Tariff?
Entrepreneurs are looking for several ways to improve customer satisfaction. In the modern world with so many service providers, customers have various choices. To establish your business, you should show to your customers that you are something different and unique.
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Network Business Intelligence To Improve Service Management
The major aim for any organization is to reduce operational costs and increase profits. With the advent of high speed internet and latest technologies, ubiquitous communication is now possible. Sitting in one part of the world, you can communicate with a person located in some other corner
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How Video Conferencing Can Help Your Business?