International Student Blog

As we have announced recently, we have a brand new student blogger who is joining the InternationalStudent.com blogging team. Laura is now our resident study in the USA student blogger and will be blogging throughout the year on all aspects of being an international student in the USA. She has already started her blogs as she starts her new college in the USA and you can follow her at:

http://www.internationalstudent.com/study_usa/blog/

We are also excited to announce our new study in the UK student blogger who has just started on our sister UK site. Juan is an international student who has just started to study art at the Glasgow School of Art and will be blogging throughout the year on all types of topics that affect an international student in the UK. You can follow Juan online at:

http://uk.internationalstudent.com/blog/

How can these blogs help me?
We have student bloggers on our site as we feel it provides you with a fantastic insight into life when you are abroad, and what better way to share information and advice than from current international students who are experiencing it all first hand.

To keep track of all the blogs, you can either subscribe to the RSS feed or sign up to receive the latest blog posts to your email address. If you need more information about student RSS feeds, please see our previous post.

You can also post comments on the blogs, so if you have any input about what our bloggers are writing about or you would like to ask them questions - please post comments!

Although the USA is a huge draw for many students that want to study internationally, the UK is easily the number 2 destination for international students. Traditionally funding to study in the USA can be very hard to find, however with the International Student Loan Program and the International Financial Aid Center that we have now developed, we are making access to funding for students much easier.

The UK, however, does not have the same sort of funding channels for international students. There is no specific loan program yet for students looking to study in the UK - however scholarships are a great source, but finding them can be hard.

The new UK International Financial Aid Cetner for students studying in the UK has been launched that offers a international students a source to get help and advice for funding their education in the UK. The main highlight of this new section is the Universities that Award Financial Aid - this database provides you with access to schools in the UK that provide financial assistance, such as scholarships, to international students that are enrolled or plan to enroll.

Please check out the new International Financial Aid Center for Studying in the UK.

2007 is going to be a huge year for InternationalStudent.com as we embark on an ambitious plan to totally revamp the site and the content. As part of this over the coming months you will see some great new additions, and also some updates to old favourites.

Our Study in the UK section of UK InternationalStudent.com is one of the areas that has recently been re-written to provide students with more detail and content. This section now provides you with detailed information about the UK as a destination to study and will hopefully assist you in your decision making process of where to study abroad.

Also be sure to check back over the next few weeks as we plan to roll out a brand new international student tax service which will feature a new online tax refund interface. From my post last week you will also have noticed that our Study Abroad Center has a new search and blog with updated content from Matt Brattin as he prepares to study abroad in Spain.

We also have grand ideas for the main InternationalStudent.com website, and the next time you visit it might be to a brand new site - so keep coming back and help grow our community!

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Whilst researching some new material for our Study in the UK section of InternationalStudent.com, I came across some really interesting (and funny) statistics that I thought I had to share with everyone - there are over 390,000 official Jedi Knights in the UK that recognize “Jedi” as their main religion!!

I found this as we are redeveloping our Study UK pages and wanted to include information about the ethnicity of the UK and what religions are represented, so I went to the National Statistics archive for the UK and from the last census in 2001 they have reported over 390,000 people as following the religion of Jedi.

How did this come about? Well back when the census was being taken, there was an email hoax going around that said if enough people selected Jedi as their religion, the UK government would be forced to recognize this as a religion. Of course this was not true, but there were still over 390,000 who put this down which equates to roughly 7 in every 1,000 britains.

To learn more about the UK, and studying in the country with over 390,000 Jedi’s please see:
- Study in the UK - with InternationalStudent.com
- Cheap Calling from the UK - with iCallAbroad UK
- International Student Loans - from InternationalStudentLoan.com

You can also learn more at the National Statistics Website

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