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<p>As some of you know, I have studied in the UK for 7 years. Between undergraduate and graduate studies, I wroked in Australia for 6 months. I had lived there fore a year as a child. I thought it would be fun, especially as it was a job working with animals. Australia is just like Britain in the sun. It has the same TV programmes. It would be a good experience. I was very wrong. Everyone was very nice to me socially, but in the workplace women were treated so badly! It was like 60 years ago. I was really shocked by the experience. I am quite an ambitious character and it made me so very unhappy. Australia is a wonderful place to visit for a vacation, but I really didn’t like to live there as I was treated like a 1940s housewife. I was back in the UK by Christmas. I had applied to for a few masters courses in Oz but withdrew my applications. </p>
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<p>I answer lots of questions about study abroad programmes and sadly I think this is the norm! People always PM me about why have they got such terrible grades abroad. For example 70% is genius level in the UK but a fail in the US system, but the vast majority of study abroad programmes seem to make no allowance for this wahtsoever. Do not attend any study abroad programme until you work out how it is graded. It is usually up to the home institution in the US to decide what they will do with grades suppied by the foreign school.</p>