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This is the 4th post on my path to ‘Keeping up the pace on steemit’ You can read the first post on this journey here.
If you would like to see the penultimate post, to understand how we got here please help yourself out.
I am so excited that I can share this concept with some people here on steemit platform – thank you guys for keeping up to date!
In my last write up, I shared one of the strategies adopted to curb infection menace – decentralization of information. Interestingly, as you may also agree with me, decentralization is not only beneficial to store of value and use of technology but also almost every aspect of life that this concept is adopted.
In today’s episode, I would like to tell you a bit more about some other incentives used by European states to encourage decentralized education. But before I proceed, if you find any information here misleading or incorrect, please do not hesitate to leave a comment down there.
While studying in Germany, I could also work part time to support myself financially. In Germany, you are allowed, as a student, to work 250 half days (4 hours/day) or 120 full days (8 hours/day) in a year. This is really helpful, especially to international students who are not entitled to receive grants/loans from the state. I could manage my full time studies very well with my part-time job. I worked mostly at weekends – Fridays and Saturdays.
Most of my friends and colleagues wondered why I chose to work only on weekends, and there be like – ‘Yow Mike, what’s up with going to clubs at weekends?’ Well, if you know where you come from, you should understand where you are going and where you have to be at any given time.
In holidays, you are allowed, as a student to work full time and earn like regular workers. The nicest part about this incentive is that you don’t pay tax as a student in Germany, working the acceoted hours. Although, when you earn more during school days, you may have to pay and that sucks sometimes ☹
Understanding the challenges faced by most prospective international students, many states, organizations and different institutes offer scholarships to international students. Interestingly, you can enjoy this offer before, while studying and even to further your studies – you just have to get the right information and have good performance in class. Although there could be many obstacles/challenges to get offers like this but if you investigate, you will find really helpful information about it. In my upcoming write-ups, I will include some helpful tips to this aspect.
Another aspect I find really nice about studying in Europe, at least as I experienced in Germany, is the flexible study program. You can decide which course (s) to take in a particular semester and which exams to write. There’s no deadline to when you have to complete your studies – but hey! You wouldn’t want to take 5 years to complete a Master’s program, right?
With such flexibility, you can plan yourself very and go through the program well organized. When it comes to exams, at least, as it was in my previous school, there are always two dates to write a particular exam in a semester and you have the option to take the exam in the first or second semester. If you for instance, wrote an exam and failed it in the first date, you can repeat same exam in the next date or even the next year – no troubles! Luckily, this doesn’t affect your overall GPA in any way.
I hope the above tips were helpful 😉
In my next episode, I will talk about what you can do in Germany and most European states after studying – the opportunities you have and how best you can use them.
Do not forget – the main topic here is Infection: how to curb it globally. Everything you read about are the different strategies used to control this global menace.
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