Introduction — registering for medical and healthcare support: Your university or college will assist you with guidance on registering with a ‘GP’ (‘General Practitioner’) who will be your first stop for medical and healthcare services, such as emergency visits when
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Accommodation – regarding reputable Letting Agencies and Landlords & related
Introduction: For a specified initial period (usually one year) you may be allocated campus or other educational institute provided accommodation. However, after you will commonly find you live off campus in private accommodation for your year two, three (or four,
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Permitted work – Employment Opportunities, and Employment Agencies
Introduction: If your visa indicates you have the right to work for a specified number of hours per week to supplement your income, your university or college will be able to provide you with details of work opportunities. For example,
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Local authorities
Local authorities / local councils cover a number of services where international students at some point in the time of their study in the UK will have to or may need to come into contact with. The main areas of
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Local BAME / ethnic minority community groups
Introduction: Connecting with local communities of the same race/ethnicity as that of the international student is often an important aspect of successfully settling in for the international student’s period of study. An absolute starting point will be your student
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Charities and organisations that support international students
Introduction: In terms of direct community ethnic minority groups and organisations in the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole (BCP) and broader Dorset and adjacent Hampshire (including Southampton and Portsmouth), the UK Nepal Friendship Society (UKNFS), and One Community Hampshire and Dorset (OCHD)
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How to use the information resource:
The resource is structured on a thematic topics’ basis, with a main subject, and where relevant related subjects covered too, and including some issues that you may sometimes encounter, and for these different solutions and types and sources of supportive
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Support dedications from international students and organisations providing international students services, or support & signposting services:
The UKNFS (and by extension the NRNA UK) with One Community Hampshire and Dorset organisation (OCHD) — www.ochd.org.uk — wish to thank all of the international students, in their hundreds, including 100+ in the Dorset Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area,
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