Struggling to get a place at University?
Birmingham Graduate School can help you in achieving your dreams and goals.With the increase in University tuition fees it is suspected that a record number of students will miss out on a place at University this year due to a rush to obtain a place before these increases take effect in 2012.
The media have published many articles throughout this year reporting the alarming numbers of students will be affected:
“Around 200,000 people will miss out on places at UK universities this year, the highest number on record.” August 2011
“Tuition fee rise: one in three will miss out in rush for university” January 2011
Such articles show how the increase of tuition fees in the UK is already affecting prospective students. With the limitation on seats available and the increasing cost of attending Universities, we at BGS offer students a lifeline to still be able to study their degrees at a much reduced cost.
This allows students to take full opportunity of receiving University standard teaching, delivered by our University Professors without having the difficult task of desperately trying to obtain one of those limited seats through clearing this year or worrying about the increasing amounts of debt incurred by attending a University next year.
TRIBUTE TO STEVE JOBS. R.I.P - The Innovative Genius
On October 5th 2011, Steve Jobs died after many years of illness but true to form he was working on new developments for the iPod, iPad, iPhone and Macbooks until the last.
His quest to improve the world dates back to his ‘wilderness time’ when he was a hippie and university drop-out who experimented with alternative ways of living (in a commune with everything owned in common) and sought enlightenment from Eastern gurus. It was at that point that it had suddenly occurred to him that,
“……..maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.”(Quoted in Michael Moritz’s The Little Kingdom)
The man who has changed communication and leisure in ways that would have been inconceivable twenty years ago, did not have the best start in life. His single mother had him adopted, so he was brought up by uneducated but loving parents who enjoyed only a modest income. At school he was troublesome although acknowledged as clever and innovative. The ‘square peg’ got bullied in his teens so his doting parents moved to another city then spent their life savings on his college education. However, he ‘dropped out’ anyway.
It was his father that fostered his early interest in electronics by buying him ‘Heathkits’ which allowed the young Steve to build simple machines. The resultant sense of accomplishment and confidence gained by making things that work developed his ‘can do’ attitude that characterised his attitude towards life and business. This coupled with self-discipline exemplified by periodic self-imposed ‘fasting’ created an individual who had vision and craved perfection.
What can we learn from Jobs life?
It’s all right to think differently but remain self- critical. Follow through with your ideas even if you are ridiculed or opposed. As well as this, don’t take ‘no’ for an answer or compromise on quality. Perfection can only be achieved through dedication to your craft.
