Year Abroad 2012/13 Chat Thread

You will be eligible for whatever you are normally eligible for in the UK, so any maintenance loans/grants. You don't need a tuition fees loan as you won't be paying any (assuming you have an Erasmus funded place) and you will be sent additional information by your home university about the Erasmus grants as these are administered by your home university. You will be given this money in 3 instalments during the academic year and it is in addition to everything you receive from student finance.

Don't you pay what you'd normally pay, just no fees to the placement uni? So in England you'd be paying your English universities fees and in Scotland you do SAAS as normal etc.

Also we've been told Erasmus grants have changed this year, you're getting it in one big lot rather than staged. Which is worrying if you're not good at saving but pretty useful for flat deposits and things

im trying to write my motivation letter hate doing stuff like this urgh applying to go to esc rennes in france, deadline is in a week but having had exams this month havent had the time to do it until now

No, if you have an Erasmus funded place you don't pay anything (which obviously makes no difference to people who get their fees paid for by SAAS but it makes a difference to the non Scottish UK people who do pay fees) but if you go on exchange outside of the EU on a non Erasmus funded place, then you pay tuition fees as normal. So yes, if you were going to Canada, for example, then someone from Scotland would pay nothing as they pay nothing in Scotland and someone from England would pay their normal tuition fees.

I think you generally pay half fees if you're going outside the EU, plus whatever the foreign university charges. That's the case for Russia and Latin America anyway - Canada might be different!

I just continue paying to Glasgow, I just have to prove that I have enough money for that and then $10,000 dollars for living costs.

Same for me, for Edinburgh Uni. So because I'm from Scotland and SAAS pay my tuition anyway, I'm paying for my accommodation abroad & food/health insurance/travel, etc.

I just continue paying to Glasgow, I just have to prove that I have enough money for that and then $10,000 dollars for living costs.

you'll manage it

i stayed up the whole night in the library to do it posted it in the morning so all sorted

couldnt leave it any longer, i got 3 exams next week to revise for

exciting!

Ouch, good luck with that revision!

Sounds awesome! A few of my modules (experimental psycholinguistics ) aren't offered here either!

Yeah I'd love to visit Scandinavian Arctic

Should be about £600 return for me which isn't too bad I guess! I think I'm going to buy tickets mid-June which will be when I get my exam results therefore confirmation I've got into year abroad...just in case

Hey sorry for the very late reply, I'm in the middle of exams!

Experimental psycholinguistics? I have absolutely no idea what that might entail lol. What do you study in that module?

Is that an open return? You get your results in mid-June?! Lucky! I have to wait until early-mid July. I think I'll do the same as you. If I have enough money I will go to Hong Kong early - probably late August. I have to be there by early September and classes start in mid-September. Feels like an age away right now. When are you planning on going to Calgary?

No worries.

Experimental psycholinguistics = "Exploration of the cognitive, neuropsychological, and social processes that underlie language abilities, with reference to linguistic theory. A laboratory component provides experience with methodologies used to study language behaviour." basically it's kinda the psychology behind language

Nah that's coming back at Christmas (I just don't think I could do Christmas away from family...) I'm going start of September

Wow that sounds really complicated, I don't envy you!

K. I'm not planning on going back home until I finish the year. It's a bit too expensive. Besides I think I'd rather spend time travelling during the holidays.

There are people on my course that are going to Australia and they begin in July! They don't have much of a holiday!

I'm going to buy a teach yourself Cantonese kit so I can learn some basic phrases before I leave which I am actually looking forward to a lot. I learnt some Korean last semester and I really enjoyed learning a language completely different from English so I should enjoy Cantonese. Although I envisage learning all the tones will be difficult. I have a few friends who speak Cantonese so I can practice my pronunciation with them. Do you have to do much to prepare yourself for your year abroad?

No, if you have an Erasmus funded place you don't pay anything (which obviously makes no difference to people who get their fees paid for by SAAS but it makes a difference to the non Scottish UK people who do pay fees) but if you go on exchange outside of the EU on a non Erasmus funded place, then you pay tuition fees as normal. So yes, if you were going to Canada, for example, then someone from Scotland would pay nothing as they pay nothing in Scotland and someone from England would pay their normal tuition fees.



You get it at the start of the year then? What if you drop out and come back home, do you have to pay it back?

Fair enough, I just would find not being at home over Christmas horrible

Ahhh I know, it's what put me off a southern hemisphere uni

Good plan, so exciting to learn a new language Not much prep really, visas and all that stuff, plus going to try and find out rules of ice hockey

Hey . I've finished my exams so I'm now beginning to move onto thinking/preparing for study abroad. I recently got told that I find out whether or not I have got the 60% necessary for study abroad in late June and then in mid-July I find out my exact percentage so I'll just book my plane tickets in late June.

Have you not finished your visa application? Is ice hockey big in Canada?