Tag: ytsummerschool

Systems, political systems - and nobody to reach behind the wall. Perhaps all of you once had to battle with some system, a set of ridiculous rules... The movies chosen for this week are way beyond that - their main characters have to undergo a journey to the unknown with uncertain results.

In this week’s news, we speak about Australian university’s issues with bushfire, a new Chinese university campus in Hungary and student protests in Chile.

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme cultivates the leaders of tomorrow by providing outstanding university graduates and professionals from developing and emerging economies with the opportunity to pursue fully-funded graduate studies at the University of Oxford, combined with a comprehensive programme of leadership development, long-term mentoring and networking. To locate the January deadline for your chosen courses, please consult the relevant course pages.

In the upcoming season, several highly anticipated films by Clint Eastwood, Paul Verhoeven, and Philippa Lowthorpe will be released and shown on the big screen. Keira Knightly will take on the character of a rebel and activist in the Women`s Movement; the story of the fantastic Michael Jordan`s career will be featured in a documentary; and a breathtaking, shocking movie about a lesbian nun in the Renaissance era, based on the historical work of Judith Brown, will appear in theaters. As you probably begin to understand, we are going to talk about films that were inspired by real events.

In our last article we covered the universities in Singapore. Let us also introduce you to some of the best scholarships available in the country.