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    Top Tips to Prepare for your Year Abroad

    Are you gearing up for a Year Abroad next year? Uncertain of what the future might hold? Never fear - Year Abroad veteran Harriet is here to let you in on all the tricks of the trade to make sure you can make all your friends jealous with tales...
  • China’s Confucius Institutes: Why are they at risk and what could be their replacements?

    Rosanna Loyd It has been revealed that Rishi Sunak vows to shut down all UK-based Confucius Institutes if he becomes the next Prime Minister. Impact’s Rosie Loyd explores what the possible alternatives to these institutes are considering the current landscape in the UK for teaching Mandarin is so heavily...
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    Looking Back On A Year Abroad: Valencia

    Isabel Murphy Firstly, I would like to say how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do a year abroad despite all the travel restrictions and terrible things that have happened during the past year. I feel incredibly lucky to have had this experience even though it...
  • A Pandemic Year Abroad

    “Une année à l’étranger” is, in my opinion, a staple of the MFL degree. I hadn’t realised until I got out to Belgium this year how absolutely essential it is for students to be dunked headfirst into a scenario that forces them to converse with others in their studied...
  • UoN students’ Year Abroad Cut Short Due to Coronavirus

    Some University of Nottingham students studying abroad have been advised by their heads of school to cut their programme short and return home early as coronavirus cases soar. ...
  • Tacos, Tequila and Turtles: Volunteering in Mexico

    My year abroad found me on the pacific coast of Mexico in sleepy surf town San Pancho, little sister and neighbour to one of Mexico’s lively “Magic Villages” Sayulita. Here I volunteered in a centre called EntreAmigo’s that acted not only as the heart of the community but my...
  • Your Year Abroad: What to Expect

    The build-up to your semester or year abroad can feel like a lifetime. Particularly when you have chosen to study a language, your year abroad is constantly in your sights from up to three years before it finally begins. After hearing the experiences of others and seeing people on...