I am writting from Portugal and I have too tried to study In the Uk.
For me the biggest problem was not being a english native speaker which
obliged me to do veyry difficault language tests. For what I noticed, it is
very difficult to enter a a UK University becuase they receive students from
all over the world, so you are not competing just with english students.

Ana Teresa da Conceicao
Horns Degree in Anthropology


>From: Andrew Renaut <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: jobs in the UK (and schools)
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:13:35 +1000
>
>Hi all,
>when I arrived back in the UK in '97, I walked straight into two jobs -
>within two days of arriving in London. Of course I have both EU and
>Australian passports which helps a bit. The problem was both jobs were both
>part time (0.5) and highly dependent on funding, i.e. people being on sick
>leave etc. Worse, there seemed to be some sort of resentment by management
>that I was working at two places. Still things were pretty up beat with
>Beau
>Blair just having been elected and there were lots of jobs being
>advertised.
>Things ground to a halt pretty quickly though and I was soon getting
>letters
>and calls delaying interviews. (I was rung up here in Australia 6 months
>after I had returned to see if I was still interested in coming for an
>interview for a job I had applied for two years prior.)
>Thing is even with the right connections it is very difficult in the UK in
>the museum sector. Most of the staff in the smaller museums are not full
>time. And while I was boarding with a senior staff member of a large museum
>that didn't really help either. In the end I worked for a large newspaper
>group doing databases as I couldn't live on a 0.5 salary. Costs in London
>are extremely high (although the high US dollar may help our US friends). I
>was paying more for a room than the mortgage on my house here in inner
>Melbourne. (It was cheaper to fly a mile on Concord than to travel a mile
>on
>the London Underground and the likely hood of fire was greater.)
>One slight glimmer of hope. At one of the museums I worked, there was a
>reciprical internship with a New York University. (I had to show the intern
>where London was on an atlas after two weeks. Geography was obviously not
>taught in her courses!) She stayed eight weeks during summer. The
>internship
>had been running quite a few years. The museum was run by two local
>councils. So check with your Uni to see if they have any agreements and
>check the web for council details.
>No one has yet mentioned the MA course in Museum and Gallery Management
>that
>was being run by a south London Uni (sorry my sister is going to lecture at
>Cambridge Uni in a few weeks and she has all my maps etc). It was a full
>fee
>course even for those of us with the right birth place. Meanwhile here I've
>recently been rejected for an entry level curatorial job because I don't
>have a Phd. It seem a MA is like a BA (Bugger All) was a few years ago. So
>get those books out! I've already started.
>Good luck
>Andrew Renaut
>...O divine lineage in mortal guise...
>
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