Archive for the ‘public policy & policy making’ Category

Jun
24

I  have just read the news online, and it was announced that final year university students are to get exam results. The industrial dispute is still on, but they decided to issue exam results for final year students…at least Phew I’m glad we don’t have to wait a long time for the results. Hopefully [...]

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May
23

This morning, whilst reading the news, I came across this article, about how new ways of monitoring migration should be established as a priority. This area is one of the issues which I am currently researching, as part of one of my credits at uni, which is related to the changing European demography. Migration is [...]

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May
05

I’m back home from a one day seminar with my friends from uni. We had presentations about Jersey, as part of one of our credits, which is about policy making in micro states. It was really interesting to get to know more about another micro state, which has a very successful offshore finance centre. In [...]

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Apr
28

The past couple of days I’ve been working hard on summarising the dissertation, which was over 23, 000 words. I have now managed to reduce it to just over 20, 000 words..not much progress unfortunately, but every word counts!! I have to summarise it by another 8 000 words, which I think will mean taking [...]

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Apr
23

This afternoon I received feedback from my supervisor, and I’m very pleased to report that apart from the word count, there are no major issues to amend He has also given me some hints on how to minimise the wordcount, so I should be working on it on Friday, since tomorrow I’ve got lectures. [...]

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Apr
21

I just managed to finish the draft of the dissertation I feel so relieved!
Basically I gave up on including all the issues which I had initially planned on discussing, since I’m well over the word count limit! In fact, at over 24, 000 words, it’s double the requested amount, and the biggest problem [...]

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Apr
19

Not long now until we have to submit our dissertation! Only around 20 days left!!
I hadn’t worked on it since before I went abroad in March, so yesterday I started early in the morning, and spent the day working on it. At least I managed to do a lot of work so now I’ve only [...]

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Apr
14

Another Monday…another busy week!
I hope you all had a great weekend! I tried to take it easy this weekend, but I’ll make up for it this week since I really have to work hard on uni work.
On Saturday I managed to finish another assignment, so now I can concentrate on the dissertation and upcoming exams! [...]

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Apr
08

Today I went  back to uni after nearly a month! I felt so strange to be back! But now holiday time is over and I have to get back to work - and I have to work really hard considering that in less than 2 months I start my finals!! And I have to submit [...]

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Apr
05

Since I’ve been back from UK after Easter I haven’t been to uni yet since I went back to London this week for a short trip and came back on Thursday. So really I haven’t been to uni since the first week of March!! But I have to go for lectures on Tuesday. Back to [...]

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