Uni exchanges win top marks
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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September 6, 2011
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More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
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LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
This was the second exchange trip for the 22-year-old, now in the fifth year of her course. In 2009, she studied media law, international commercial law and intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen — and took a free one-month intensive course in Danish, useful for social if not academic life as the courses were taught in English. Her chosen subjects, along with the units she studied in the Netherlands, counted towards her Deakin degree.
She is one of 300 Deakin students undertaking semester or year-long exchanges this year.
Jack McCardel studied in Canada. Photo: Eddie Jim
Thompson and McCardel are symbols of a trend. The "globetrotting degree" has become an increasingly popular option for today's undergraduates.
This year more than 9000 Australian undergraduate students have enrolled in courses at hundreds of universities in Asia, Europe, Africa, the US and Canada. More than 6000 of them were on exchange partnership arrangements, with their course costs covered by their HECS fees and the overseas "partner" university sending an equivalent number of students to Australia to do units that will count towards their degrees.
Students on exchange are also eligible for Australian government "OS-HELP" loans of $5611, which are added on to their HECS debt. Some receive scholarships, but most just save to raise the minimum $10,000 to $12,000 required for living expenses and travel overseas.
Uni exchanges win top marksLiz Porter
September 6, 2011
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Uni exchanges win top marks
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
This was the second exchange trip for the 22-year-old, now in the fifth year of her course. In 2009, she studied media law, international commercial law and intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen — and took a free one-month intensive course in Danish, useful for social if not academic life as the courses were taught in English. Her chosen subjects, along with the units she studied in the Netherlands, counted towards her Deakin degree.
She is one of 300 Deakin students undertaking semester or year-long exchanges this year.
Jack McCardel studied in Canada. Photo: Eddie Jim
Thompson and McCardel are symbols of a trend. The "globetrotting degree" has become an increasingly popular option for today's undergraduates.
This year more than 9000 Australian undergraduate students have enrolled in courses at hundreds of universities in Asia, Europe, Africa, the US and Canada. More than 6000 of them were on exchange partnership arrangements, with their course costs covered by their HECS fees and the overseas "partner" university sending an equivalent number of students to Australia to do units that will count towards their degrees.
Students on exchange are also eligible for Australian government "OS-HELP" loans of $5611, which are added on to their HECS debt. Some receive scholarships, but most just save to raise the minimum $10,000 to $12,000 required for living expenses and travel overseas.
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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Uni exchanges win top marks
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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Uni exchanges win top marks
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
This was the second exchange trip for the 22-year-old, now in the fifth year of her course. In 2009, she studied media law, international commercial law and intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen — and took a free one-month intensive course in Danish, useful for social if not academic life as the courses were taught in English. Her chosen subjects, along with the units she studied in the Netherlands, counted towards her Deakin degree.
She is one of 300 Deakin students undertaking semester or year-long exchanges this year.
Jack McCardel studied in Canada. Photo: Eddie Jim
Thompson and McCardel are symbols of a trend. The "globetrotting degree" has become an increasingly popular option for today's undergraduates.
This year more than 9000 Australian undergraduate students have enrolled in courses at hundreds of universities in Asia, Europe, Africa, the US and Canada. More than 6000 of them were on exchange partnership arrangements, with their course costs covered by their HECS fees and the overseas "partner" university sending an equivalent number of students to Australia to do units that will count towards their degrees.
Students on exchange are also eligible for Australian government "OS-HELP" loans of $5611, which are added on to their HECS debt. Some receive scholarships, but most just save to raise the minimum $10,000 to $12,000 required for living expenses and travel overseas.
Every Victorian university has exchange arrangements. Monash University's "Passport" program offers students semesters at Monash campuses in South Africa, Malaysia, at the Monash centre in Prato, Italy, and at 115 partner universities in 25 countries, while La Trobe's exchange program offers students a choice of more than 100 universities in 30 countries.
Rachael Thompson says her exchange experiences have made her far more confident and independent.
"I also find myself being able to deal with change and stress a lot better than before I went. It has broadened my horizons, now that I have been to so many places in the world. You gain so much knowledge without even realising."
She still has the slides from her field trip to the Pieter Baan Centre: another experience she would never have had in Melbourne. There were no The Silence of the Lambs encounters with any of the centre's inmates, the most notorious of whom must be the man who made world headlines after he skinned his mother, donned the skin as a cloak and then, brandishing his Bible, was found directing traffic.
But she left with a deep understanding of the philosophy of the centre, where specialists decide whether inmates can be held wholly responsible for their crimes.
Her exchange experiences also exposed Thompson to different styles of teaching. In Denmark, for example, attendance at lectures was compulsory, university was free and students received an automatic Centrelink-style payment enabling them to live away from home without having a job. As a result, perhaps, her fellow students were very dedicated.
"There was no 'Ps (scraped pass marks) get degrees' there. Marks matter, it's all you've got," she says.
It's barely September but Stuart Hibberd, Melbourne University's Manager of Education Abroad Student Programs, is taking applications for students wishing to study at overseas universities in July 2012.
Take Control of Your Super Special Offer Ends Soon. Apply Now!
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
Uni exchanges win top marks
Liz Porter
September 6, 2011
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www.esuperfund.com.au
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More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
Advertisement: Story continues below
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
This was the second exchange trip for the 22-year-old, now in the fifth year of her course. In 2009, she studied media law, international commercial law and intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen — and took a free one-month intensive course in Danish, useful for social if not academic life as the courses were taught in English. Her chosen subjects, along with the units she studied in the Netherlands, counted towards her Deakin degree.
She is one of 300 Deakin students undertaking semester or year-long exchanges this year.
Jack McCardel studied in Canada. Photo: Eddie Jim
Thompson and McCardel are symbols of a trend. The "globetrotting degree" has become an increasingly popular option for today's undergraduates.
This year more than 9000 Australian undergraduate students have enrolled in courses at hundreds of universities in Asia, Europe, Africa, the US and Canada. More than 6000 of them were on exchange partnership arrangements, with their course costs covered by their HECS fees and the overseas "partner" university sending an equivalent number of students to Australia to do units that will count towards their degrees.
Students on exchange are also eligible for Australian government "OS-HELP" loans of $5611, which are added on to their HECS debt. Some receive scholarships, but most just save to raise the minimum $10,000 to $12,000 required for living expenses and travel overseas.
Every Victorian university has exchange arrangements. Monash University's "Passport" program offers students semesters at Monash campuses in South Africa, Malaysia, at the Monash centre in Prato, Italy, and at 115 partner universities in 25 countries, while La Trobe's exchange program offers students a choice of more than 100 universities in 30 countries.
Rachael Thompson says her exchange experiences have made her far more confident and independent.
"I also find myself being able to deal with change and stress a lot better than before I went. It has broadened my horizons, now that I have been to so many places in the world. You gain so much knowledge without even realising."
She still has the slides from her field trip to the Pieter Baan Centre: another experience she would never have had in Melbourne. There were no The Silence of the Lambs encounters with any of the centre's inmates, the most notorious of whom must be the man who made world headlines after he skinned his mother, donned the skin as a cloak and then, brandishing his Bible, was found directing traffic.
But she left with a deep understanding of the philosophy of the centre, where specialists decide whether inmates can be held wholly responsible for their crimes.
Her exchange experiences also exposed Thompson to different styles of teaching. In Denmark, for example, attendance at lectures was compulsory, university was free and students received an automatic Centrelink-style payment enabling them to live away from home without having a job. As a result, perhaps, her fellow students were very dedicated.
"There was no 'Ps (scraped pass marks) get degrees' there. Marks matter, it's all you've got," she says.
It's barely September but Stuart Hibberd, Melbourne University's Manager of Education Abroad Student Programs, is taking applications for students wishing to study at overseas universities in July 2012.
Take Control of Your Super Special Offer Ends Soon. Apply Now!
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
Every Victorian university has exchange arrangements. Monash University's "Passport" program offers students semesters at Monash campuses in South Africa, Malaysia, at the Monash centre in Prato, Italy, and at 115 partner universities in 25 countries, while La Trobe's exchange program offers students a choice of more than 100 universities in 30 countries.
Rachael Thompson says her exchange experiences have made her far more confident and independent.
"I also find myself being able to deal with change and stress a lot better than before I went. It has broadened my horizons, now that I have been to so many places in the world. You gain so much knowledge without even realising."
She still has the slides from her field trip to the Pieter Baan Centre: another experience she would never have had in Melbourne. There were no The Silence of the Lambs encounters with any of the centre's inmates, the most notorious of whom must be the man who made world headlines after he skinned his mother, donned the skin as a cloak and then, brandishing his Bible, was found directing traffic.
But she left with a deep understanding of the philosophy of the centre, where specialists decide whether inmates can be held wholly responsible for their crimes.
Her exchange experiences also exposed Thompson to different styles of teaching. In Denmark, for example, attendance at lectures was compulsory, university was free and students received an automatic Centrelink-style payment enabling them to live away from home without having a job. As a result, perhaps, her fellow students were very dedicated.
"There was no 'Ps (scraped pass marks) get degrees' there. Marks matter, it's all you've got," she says.
It's barely September but Stuart Hibberd, Melbourne University's Manager of Education Abroad Student Programs, is taking applications for students wishing to study at overseas universities in July 2012.
Take Control of Your Super Special Offer Ends Soon. Apply Now!
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one.
More students are opting to study overseas, a learning experience in more ways than one. Photo: iStock
LAST semester, Rachael Thompson swapped her usual timetable of lectures at Deakin University's Geelong and Burwood campuses for an unusual learning experience: time behind the walls of a forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
The law/commerce student spent the first half of this year as a law student at the University of Utrecht, where she studied gender and the law, introduction to European law and criminal law.
Her course work for a unit on forensic mental health took her into the high-security Pieter Baan Centre, where people accused of some of the Netherlands' most shocking crimes spend an intensive seven weeks undergoing observations, interviews and tests.
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Rachael Thompson...student and traveller
Rachael Thompson...student and traveller.
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