Sunday, May 16, 2010

STUDENTS, GET GOOGLE VOICE NOW!!

Students, get Google Voice now!! Uhh, what is Google voice? Well, imagine you can use one number for all of your phones. Imagine you can use it to send e-mails, text messages for free, cheap international calls, etc. It's not just imagination, because now you can have a number like that. Google has launched one of the coolest things in today's communication world. It's Google Voice. Let's take a quick look at it.





It's cool isn't it? Now, Google Voice available by invitation only. But if you are a student, or maybe teacher or school administrators, with .edu in the ending of your e-mail account (example: myname@school.edu), use it to request the invitation at google.com/voice/students, and get the invitation in 24 hours. So, why wait? Get it now and feel the simplicity it offers.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

University Fee in China Only Rp 16 million/Year (Around $1,600/Year)

Jakarta (Pos Kota) - In the celebration of National Education Day and also celebrating 60 Years China-Indonesia relation, Beijing Language Culture Institute Indonesia invites tens of university from the government of China, and also universities that give degree from universities in UK, Canada, France, and Australia, which campus are located in China, to attend to China Education Fair 2010, 8-9 May 2010 in Hall B 1st floor Mangga Dua Square, Jl. Gunung Sahari, Jakarta Pusat. (it's a mall in jakarta, indonesia).

Total money that you can save to get bachelor degree from UK universities but through studying in universities in China can be around Rp 485 million (around $40,000-$50,000), said Samuel Wiyono MBA, Chairman of Foreign Exchange Students and Teachers Beijing Language Culture Institute Indonesia. "The tuition fees are getting more and more competitive. Rp 16 million (around $1,600) per year for bachelor degree using Mandarin, and Rp 19,8 million (around $2,000) per year if you choose to study in courses that are using English," he said.

For Indonesian student, for now, there are universities from Chinese government who offer apartment in five big cities, Ningbo, Nanchang, Hefei, Suzhou, and Nanjing, for certain programs.

Universities that are planning to attend to the Chinese Education Fair in Jakarta are: Beijing Jiaotong University, South China University Technology-Guangzhou, East China University Science Technology-Shanghai, Jiangxi Normal University-Nanchang , Ningbo University, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University-Suzhou, Chongqing Medical University, Suzhou University Science Technology , Nanjing University Aeronautics Astronautics. Sino British College-Shanghai, Zhejiang University Science Technology-Hangzhou, Dong-bei University Finance Economics-Dalian, Guangxi Teachers Education University-Nanning, Blue Mountains Hotel SchoolS Suzhou (BMHS) dan Anhui University-Hefei.

sources: http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=4047878
http://bataviase.co.id/node/185508
http://www.poskota.co.id/metro/2010/05/06/kuliah-di-china-hemat-biaya-1
http://www.poskota.co.id/metro/2010/05/06/biaya-kuliah-di-china-rp-16-juta-pertahun

you can also see the pictures in the source (the kaskus.us one), and I found it interesting that the author wrote an Indonesian old saying (I don't know if other countries have this saying or not): "pursue science to (until you landed in, or reach) the country of China."

The sources also tell you more detail about the amount of money you can save in by studying in China and get degree from foreign universities from UK, Canada, France, and Australia, but in some cases, you have to go study for 1-2 years in those countries. However, spend 2 years in China and then 2 years in UK/Canada/France/Australia still save you a lot of money.