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GarryBen Problem-free University Transfer to Continue Your Study Uninterruptedly

Sometimes, the more you study in the same university or college, the more fed up you get. Seeing the same faces and experiencing the same environment every day. Eventually, it just gets into you. Otherwise, you might already have an aim since high school to enter whichever university you want. Then you work towards your goal. Nevertheless, University Transfer is nothing like restarting the game of life. Apart from all the fuss of getting your visa done, applying for a new passport, purchasing y… Continue

Added by GarryBen on June 30, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

GarryBen Study Arts in London to Have World-Class Education

There are six prominent colleges for study arts in London. With this, these are providing design, fashion, communications and performing arts. They are… Camberwell College of Arts Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Chelsea College of Art and Design London College of Communication London College of Fashion Wimbledon College of Art It is a diverse and creative community of 24,000 full and part-time students from more than 100 countries. For over a century, the University has in… Continue

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GarryBen Management Study in London and its Positive Impact on Global Business

Management Study in London you mean you will be at the centre of the global economy with many opportunities to undertake an internship, project or placement with one of the world's top banks or consultancies. Make your first million in London or use your business acumen to lead some of the world's best organizations. Over 300,000 people are employed in financial services in London - more than the total population of Frankfurt in Germany, Europe's next biggest financial centre. Contemporary… Continue

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GarryBen Chinese Executive Training Designed to Build Efficient Future Managers

Millersville University of Pennsylvania has been the successful host university for a Chinese Executive Training Program since 1998. The training program is housed at the School of Humanities and Social Science and based upon an agreement between Millersville University and the Shanghai Municipal Government. The Chinese executive training program is designed to provide a high quality educational opportunity for Chinese executives t… Continue

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GarryBen Effective Chinese Education Consultancy Takes You on Right Career Path

SYA Education Consultancy is a Chinese Education Consultancy, which was founded on Aug.28th, 2002, in Qingdao, a metropolis located on the east coast of China and the office is just located along the beach. SYA Education is a fully registered company in China .Its has been granted permission to undertake foreign business affairs, with special focus on international information exchange and consultancy in the field of economy, science, culture, art, education and charity activities. Shanghai YUC… Continue

Added by GarryBen on June 30, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

GarryBen Study Fashion in London

London is a place with great history in the field of fashion. It is one of the favorite locations of any person related to fashion. We cannot ignore the contribution of fashion schools in London fashion industry. These well-known fashion schools have a good reputation in the production of top designers in shoe design, men’s clothing, women’s clothing, etc. They also have professionals in areas such as fashion photography, fashion merchandising, fashion journalism, and lot more. If you want to… Continue

Added by GarryBen on June 30, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

GarryBen Rely on Credible Education Consultancy for Studying Abroad

The Education Consultancy works as a partner with a small number of select clients in the education field to support optimal outcomes including but going beyond immediate projects. Offering Marketing Communication, Enrollment, and Revenue Solutions for: • Higher Education • Independent Secondary Schools • Individual Families The Education Consultancy with colleagues with a wide range of skill sets who are committed to providing Marketing Communication support to non-profit organizations. Our b… Continue

Added by GarryBen on June 30, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Eleven: Long Twilight Struggle for Freedom

USAID (the US Agency for International Development that since 1952 has been providing assistance to developing countries -- which is most of the world -- with humanitarian aid and assistance with economic development related to health, education, housing........) has a newsletter with a name that I cannot remember at this moment. I am writing this while in an Internet cafe......but I used to write for this newsletter when we lived in Lesotho. The name does not matter...the banner does. It was a… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 23, 2009 at 3:24am — 2 Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Ten: Al Jazeera

My satelitte TV in the flat that I am renting in Osh brings in many stations I wish I had access to in the US, including Al Jazeera. I think most Americans perceive this station as being of wild eyed broadcasters screaming Death to America every other sentence. Their broadcasts are very slick with a CNN format including some announcers who have American accents. Maybe even they are Americans! They obviously have a different slant on international news, and since we are the center of most action.… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 22, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Betty Tonsing number Nine: There is resilience.....but is there hope?

It is not quite 9 AM Saturday morning. I am getting ready to go to the university to work on symposium papers and the program with Svetlanya, Head of the American Studies Department. I started my laundry, confident I had enough time to get two loads done before I left. With no dryer, I need enough ‘air’ time to dry. Just made hot water for my coffee and popped some bread in the toaster for my breakfast. My quiet time became even quieter when all of a sudden, again we have lost electricity. This… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 20, 2009 at 8:08am — 4 Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Eight: Black Outs

Among all its crises, Kyrgzstan is rationing electricity to save money. The government has promised this would be short lived, but no one believes the government. The electricity is off literally half the day. In the section of town where my flat is located ('apartment' to you Yankees!) electricity is shut off from 2 to 6 PM and then again from midnight to 6 AM daily. And, as in the case last night, when there is an emergency breakdown of some sort. I am still sleeping in fits and starts, in Bis… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 17, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Follow up to Number Seven.....a bright economic outlook ahead!

At breakfast this morning, I was talking with a gentleman who is with the Ministry of Education. He informed me that the government released official reports that Kyrgyzstan experienced a 7.9% economic growth over the last year. That is truly amazing considering that few other countries can boast even a modest growth save China which grew about 9%, but down from the previous year's 14% growth. You could see the tongue bulging out of his cheek! Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 15, 2009 at 12:04am — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Seven: Soviet Time

Central Asian countries were ‘granted’ so called independence in the early 1990s as the former Soviet Union was dismantling itself of expensive appendages. I say granted because there was no revolution or fight as would typically happen. With independence came also the departure of skilled Russians including technicians, teachers, economists, engineers. Many of Russian heritage stayed because this was the only home they had ever known; and others stayed because there were not welcomed back to th… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 14, 2009 at 9:15pm — 2 Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Six: Tourists

Oh my gosh…..and who are the most unpleasant people I have met so far in this trip?!?!? A bunch of British tourists here to see the ‘silk road’. Staying at our sweet hotel, I have just arrived late for me (struggling still with time differences) after dinner and drinks with friends, to find our small lobby full of these folks straight off the bus. Fighting for ‘lift’ space (aka…elevator) we are quite tight….accommodating three already scrunchted adults and their traveling bags. This seems a seni… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 13, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Five: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone. It is almost 8 AM here, 10 PM eastern time zone. Off to Catholic services, which in 1969 was the first church the Soviet Union allowed to function in Central Asia. When we attended while here several years ago, the services were all in Russian and I initiated a 9 AM English language service which was a struggle at first. The Russian Jesuit was as resistant to this change as the Soviets were to allow the church in the first place. We were only allowed English services once… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 11, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Four: A Siberian Wind is Blowing through Krygyzstan

I just received this, sent by Russ Klenbach and published in Foreign Policy. Ever more critical background. The Russification of Kyrgyzstan By Baktybek Abdrisaev Page 1 of 1 Posted April 2009 How Russia pushed the U.S. out of a Central Asian stronghold. MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images An offer he couldn't refuse: Russia has taken advantage of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's penchant for personal enrichment. T he remote and mountainous Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has lon… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 10, 2009 at 1:58pm — No Comments

Betty Tonsing Number Three: Arriving to familiar sounds

One always arrives in Bishkek in the middle of the night. It is the final destination of flights, so it is not as though it is a stop over to somewhere more important. And sometimes the plane is even full. But Central Asia is in the middle of the earth……and as you move more deeply into the earth's center, the land underneath is quiet and dark. There is life, there is always life…..but it moves with the sun and the moon, as Central Asia has always now for over 2000 years. I was whisked away to t… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Betty Tonsing Entry Two: 8 April

Only in the OHara airport....terribly uneventful so far save the near miss of an accident in our bus as the driver swerved madly on the Chicago expressway avoiding a truck suddenly crossing lanes. I am thinking about the last time I traveled to Kyrgyzstan, I was with George (my husband) and Joe (our son). The banking system in Kyrgyzstan was basically non existent at the time, and no ATMs. We were advised to carry lots of cash to get us started.....so each of us had $2000 in money belts wrapped… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 8, 2009 at 3:52pm — 3 Comments

Betty Tonsing Number One: Ancient Beginnings

And so the blog begins. I am leaving for Kyrgyzstan this Wednesday, arriving 3 AM on Friday morning, 10 April. My husband and I spent a year in Kyrgyzstan 2003-2004. He was a Fulbright Scholar and I a visiting academic. While there, I also consulted with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, developed projects for Global Visits and developed the American Studies in Central Asia Symposium. It is now in its sixth year. I have been invited back by the US Embassy in Bishkek to… Continue

Added by Betty Tonsing on April 5, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

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