Maths help!

I have mentioned to some of you that a grad from last year found a website that was extremely helpful to him. This one seems to have a price tag attached to it, but there are also some free sections. Do check it out and let me know if it's helpful:

http://www.ibmaths.com/

Cheers! 'M'e Wendy

More Scholarships to check out

Wien International Scholarship

The Wien International Scholarship Program is a scholarship opportunity for international students at Brandeis University just outside of Boston, MA in the USA. Wien is a need-based scholarship that may cover full or partial costs. The competition is world-wide and so only students of the highest academic standing would be considered.

Interested students should thoroughly investigate the Brandeis University website to ensure that they are a good match in terms of programs offered and entrance criteria.

You can also find out more about the Wien Scholarship if you go to the American Embassy.

Here's another site I found. I have not had a lot of time to check through it, but you might find something interesting: http://www.scholarshipnet.info/category/undergraduate/

On this site there are a couple of African-focus scholarships that look interesting, particularly this one: http://www.scholarshipnet.info/category/undergraduate/ This might be worth checking out.

WF

What DO you want to do for the rest of your life?

Hi folks,

One of the advantages of several of the scholarship opportunities is that they allow you to enter any field of student that you are interested in, so you are not limited to Engineering, Medicine or Commerce.

A student asked me about how to do some career planning so I'll pass along some ideas. First, I don't know of a career guidance online site that is Southern African, but this one--although it is Canadian--does have some good generic information about a wide variety of careers, and it is easy to navigate your way around in it.


Investigate a career path
Link to ALIS Career Cruising site

The other thing I suggest is that you spend quite a bit of time checking out the South African university sites because some of them do have links to career information within the various faculties' information.

Mamoruti's 'Diary'

Hi folks. If you want to have a look through some of Mamoruti's reflections on her experiences at UBC, here's her blog...

http://coolencounters.blogspot.com/

ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS!

Oxford colleges Reach Oxford scholarships DEADLINE is October 15th! Let's get going on this one. Anyone interested? Scroll down to the scholarship information and check it out. If you are interested in this one, see me next week and I will make some time to help you, if needed.

The requirements are HIGH for this one, but if you think you might qualify, based on your marks in IB 1, let me know.

International Baccalaureate
A total score of at least 38 points including bonus points, with 6s and 7s in subjects taken at the Higher level.

A generic site for scholarship info

Here's one more site I checked out if you are interested in a 'generic' scholarship site. Be prepared for the fact that you'll get regular updates and requests from them.

http://www.fastweb.com

Degrees overseas: How will they be recognized in Africa or Vice Versa?

Hi folks,

I've been looking around a bit more and this UNESCO site looks like one worth reviewing if you want to know about how degree credentials would be accepted in other countries...

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21997&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html



If you are think you may be able to head to the States for university, here's a site that provides some good information about college preparation. If you need to write SAT or if you just want to try it out, they have some interactive sample test questions:

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/index.html?student