Going Abroad??

Janette SuherliMay 3rd, 2013

Outline

1. Schools and Meetings✔ Common terms

✔ Basic questions

✔ Where to look?

✔ Beware!

2. Scholarships✔ Whats and wheres

3. What do we need?

Common Terms● Summer/Winter School: academic sessions

held during specific time (in summer/winter), intended for supplementary or remedial study

1. Schools and Meetings

Meetings Conferences

Events where people gather and hold discussions

Held on a smaller scale More formal, compare to meetings

Have fewer participants Larger number of participants, spread over several days

Sometimes consist of homogenous groups

Multilateral organizations

Basic Questions

1.What is your purpose?

2.What outcome do you expect to get?

1. Schools and Meetings

Basic Questions

1.What is your purpose?

2.What outcome do you expect to get?

IT IS NOT A VACATION!

1. Schools and Meetings

Where to look?

1.The Canadian Astronomy Data Center

www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/meetings/

2.Google!

1. Schools and Meetings

Beware!

1.Expected participants (Local? Regional? International?)

2.Required background

3.Application requirements

4.Funding

1. Schools and Meetings

Beware!

1.Expected participants (Local? Regional? International?)

2.Required background

3.Application requirements

4.Funding

IT IS NOT A VACATION!

1. Schools and Meetings

What is it?

1.Scholarship

2.Grant

3.Fellowship

4.Internship

5.Student loan

2. Scholarships

Financial Aid

What is it?

1.Scholarship: financial award given to eligible person

2.Grant: cash award as exchange for (research) work

3.Fellowship: awarded to pursuer of higher degrees of education

4.Internship: opportunity to work within an institution

5.Student loan: financial assistance that has to be repaid

2. Scholarships

Where to go?

1.Indonesia

2.Asia

3.Europe

4.USA/Canada

5.Austalia/New Zealand

2. Scholarships

Where and what to look?

1.Indonesia

2.Asia

3.Europe

4.USA/Canada

5.Austalia/New Zealand

2. Scholarships

Where and what to look?

1.Indonesia

2.Asia

3.Europe

4.USA/Canada

5.Austalia/New Zealand

GOOGLE! ;)

2. Scholarships

Fulbright Scholarship

All you need to know:

http://www.aminef.or.id/fulbright/index.php/7-news/49-indonesian-program

2. Scholarships

Recommendation Letter

Who to ask?

3. What do we need?

English Proficiency Test

1.TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

→ used to test university students

www.ets.org/toefl

2.TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)

→ used mostly by corporations / global workplace

www.ets.org/toeic

3.IELTS (International English Language Testing Systems)

→ similar to TOEFL, put out by Cambridge University

www.ielts.org

3. What do we need?

iBT vs ITP

3. What do we need?

TOEFL iBT TOEFL ITP

TOEFL internet-Based Test TOEFL Institutional Testing Program

Official test administered by ETS and universally

accepted

Administered by the institution

Always new Copy of the previous official test (paper-based)

Valid for two years Not an official score

Vary by country, ID: USD 175

Vary by the institution, relatively inexpensive

Essays1.Personal Statement: asserts life experiences and their

impacts toward the ongoing condition

✔ Previous educations

✔ Practical experiences

✔ Special interests

2.Study/Research objectives: explicates recent conditions the base for future plans

✔ Major and specialized field of interest

✔ Professional experiences

✔ Future objectives

✔ Career plans

3. What do we need?

Thank you