Guide on making Decision and Preparation

Making Decision to Study in UK as Tier 4 student:


It will be better for your life to decide to study in UK after evaluating all factors rather than making a quick decision. I call it a rational decision. As an educated alien you should already know what would be the challenges, opportunities, expenses and your personal or family’s financial ability to afford those expenses.

My research showed that most students who came in UK to study from Non-EU countries have a dream to earn huge money. I found that there are a plenty of students who don’t actually have capacity to afford the UK education. The most surprising thing is that most of such students have the dream to earn more money to repay loan and buy a nice house and car in their country in a short period. Their dream might be true in future if they will work hard for better qualification however this is not possible in a short period.

Just imagine what would be the challenges? Certainly cultural difference is one of the major challenges. You should be flexible to adopt new culture. You may find different culture and tradition. If you are not able to do so, you may face cultural-shock or home-sickness. Other challenge is Language. Though you have good English knowledge, some time you will feel difficulties to communicate with people. It takes some time to you be usual to the way of communication. There will be several challenges you should face in UK, you must be flexible and positive thinker to come out from such challenges. Sometime use of Computer and IT in study will be the challenge for you. If you don’t have good knowledge of using computer, it may affect your education. So, you must be able to use general computer application such as Microsoft office package. And you should be able to use internet application such as open web site, registration, sign in and information access ability. If you often use hotmail, yahoo, facebook etc, you needn’t to be worry. Otherwise you should learn about these in your country before applying.

You may get several opportunities in UK. You can meet new people throughout the world; can learn new culture and language. You also can get most trusted and quality education in UK which will open the door of global opportunities for you. While studying in UK, you can work 20 hours per week. So, you may earn some money to contribute for living and study too. During your annual holiday you also can work full time.

The most affecting factor for making decision on whether study in UK or not is expenses and evaluation of your personal or family’s ability to afford those. If you go through the Tier 4 Policy Guidance, you can know that your monthly expenses would be £600 for outside of London and £800 for inside London. And you should have separate money to pay tuition fee. You must have at least the living expenses for nine months and first year tuition fees.

But I would like to suggest you that just evaluate whether you have the ability to afford those expenses during your study or not. If you plan to earn living expenses and next year tuition fee by working in UK, you may get trouble of lack of fund. There is no guarantee that you will get the job. There are several factors that may affect your job opportunities such as your training, experience, demand of your skill, study time and requirements of the job.

Only make decision after evaluating these things.

Preparation:

Preparation is most important steps before applying to a course. In most guidelines you may find just preparation for your study but I am going to guide you to prepare for study requirements as well as better adjustment in UK society & get part time job quickly.

While evaluating your personal skills and trainings what you found as weak points, first of all fulfil those. For example, you should have knowledge of computer and Internet to be able to study in UK and you don’t know how to use a computer, office package and internet, then you should know first about how to use computer office package and internet. You may take training and practice at your home.

You should have IELTS score in order to get admission to a course. Brown’s student visas review is likely to stop students for English course. So, you may not get visa for pre-session English course. So, start preparing IELTS. If you are weak in English, you may also start English Language preparation.

If you have some skill, training and experience, you are likely to get part time job quickly. So, if you are fresh, at least take training and some experience in your country. Some demanding jobs in UK are plumber, electrician, computer hardware maintenance and networking, hairdresser, cook, lab technician, baker, waiter, bartender, barber etc. Due to the application of IT in the job, you should have good computer knowledge. More jobs require driving ability, so, you may learn car driving and hold a valid driving license from your country. You may visit Job Finding Tips for Tier 4 Students

Next Step: Selection of Best College

Tips to International Students for selecting best colleges in UK

It is important to spend some time for selecting best colleges rather than jumping on cheap colleges. Most international students especially from China, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh did the mistake on selection of college. My research showed that all of them see the rating of the college to select the college. Only rating A is not enough that the college’s Tier 4 License lasts longer and their qualification will be valuable in future.

One thing you should keep in mind is that you can never earn money to make home, to buy car and to repay loan in your country while studying cause you are just allowed to work 20 hours per week and your earning might be enough just for your living cost.

It would be better to use the following mechanism to choose college so you will never be affected of suspension and cancellation of license of your selected college. The tier 4 point based system migrant policy clearly states that in case of tier 4 license cancellations of your selected sponsor/college, you should leave UK or you may try another licensed sponsor by paying tuition fees.

You may review the following tips:

1. You must choose the sponsor which is not profit oriented. It means you may choose government funded or operated colleges and universities. If you choose profit oriented sponsor, it might focus on making more profit rather than providing quality education. You may not have access on proper facilities or you should pay separate amount for facilities that you will get. Such sponsors/colleges often break immigration rule because they will just focus on a large number of recruitment. Sometimes that might be more than their actual capacity. It is true that they offer cheap tuition fee to attract large number of students.
2. Don’t go through only for rating A. The A rating will be provided when the college or sponsor can prove to UK Border Agency that they have proper facilities to provide for their agreed number of students. For example: College A and College B are both A rated colleges. College A can offer admission to 10000 and be able to provide facilities to such number of students. And College B can just offer admission for 500 students. If College B recruit 700 students where as his facilities are just enough for 500 students, definitely it can’t provide quality education as promised. While checking by UKBA, its sponsorship might be suspended or cancelled.
3. If you provide some time to review tier 4 migrant guidance, you can clearly get information that you should complete your course on time, if you will fail, you should return back to your home country. If your college is profit oriented and offer you cheap tuition fees, they may choose lecturers at cheap pay rate and might not be highly qualified, they may provide limited facilities and they may operate large size classes. These all factors may lead you to get fail to complete your course successfully on time. 
4. If your course requires progression to another institution or universities, you may not get admission on the progression level because the universities won’t take admission more than their allowed numbers. So, what will you do at that time?
5. Most employers see where you have completed your course rather than seeing what course you have been completed. If you have completed your course from recognized institution then they trust you and there will be high change to get after study employment and vice versa. Even for part time job while studying the reputation of college does highly mater. So, choose best college and successfully complete your education and get bright future. Don’t see present only, you have to think about your future.

So, rather than hearing sweet dream by your education consultant, try to find the consultant who gives you fact information and can guide you for quality courses at top rated colleges and universities.

If you need help to choose best college, I am pleased to provide free service for selection of best college and admission to international Students but you must be from non-EU countries. If you want my assistant to select best college and get admissions in this college, send your scan copy of passport, academic documents, IELTS score including your CV at tier4uk@yahoo.com. I will assist you to admit at your prefer course or suggest you the course which may have good demand in future.