UCAS APPLICATIONS 2014

Hello everyone,
I will be sending emails to selected students who have registered for UCAS and that your forecast grades have met requirements of more than 260 tariff points. The email reads:

 

I have checked each application thoroughly and your forecast grades meet the requirements so if you can please CONFIRM that you wish to complete and send your applications by January 15th then please email me directly from now and dont wait til next year when school reopens. It will not be sufficient time for me and other career officers to process your applications.

remember the January deadline covers most top UK universities and if you wait til when results are out in March you may lose your chance to be offered a place from university of your choice.

We hope that you will cooperate with us. Just a reminder all queries will be entertained during working hours only NOT during holidays/ weekends and after 4pm.

Thank you,
Miss Ummi K.
(Head of SMSA Pre U Career Dept)

HECAS & others

Hello SMSAnians...

Time flies and today marks the end of school holidays...:(

I've just received notice regarding HECAS so to all former SMSA Pre0U students listen up!

Firstly, UCAS applications through SMSA is officially closed because personally, for those applying for govt scholarships, there is no way UK universities have any more places for you if you apply this late. Remember, scholarship requires you to apply to top 20 - 50 universities. Unless you have a valid reason and tell me personally why you're applying late then I will consider processing your UCAs applications. 

Next, those who are applying for scholarships *including DANA, MOE and BSP please make sure you've already taken the scholarship forms from SMSA careers office personally (at the moment, most of you have taken them). If you haven't please do so by next week as I won't be giving them out again when HECAS opens. Also, please return the forms back to me so I can write your references and get the principal's approval. Again, deadline is next week and latest is HECAS's deadline.

Finally, HECAS will be open for registration on Wednesday, 27th March 2013. You can go to: http://www.hecas.edu.bn/hecasportal/ for more information. But make sure you have enough credit on your DST lines to register and apply for the programmes. The requirements are also there for your reference and are specific so make sure you are qualified to apply for the programmes otherwise you'll be wasting your money. remember HECAS is computerised so if you're not qualified you'll be rejected immediately and you can only apply once. 

** To BSP scholars, you also need to apply to HECAS because it is also considered as MOE scholarship.

If you have no internet connection at home or unable to get any internet, you are welcome to apply for HECAS at SMSA Careers office but please make an appointment cos there may be others who are using the computer.

One more thing, after you've successfully applied to HECAS, please submit 1 hard copy of your HECAS application to SMSA careers for our reference. For more information, you can attend HECAS open days:

Dates: 27th and 28th March 2013

Venue: Dewan Muhibbah Airport Lama, BSB

I hope that's enough information for everyone so please prepare everything as soon as possible and don't wait til its the deadline to do so.

Cheers! 

Miss UK

 

BSP Scholarship Scheme 2013

Good evening all..

I’ve personally received the advert for Brunei Schell Scholarship Scheme today who has requested for me to provide them with details of qualified students from SMSA to apply for this particular scholarship. Some of you may already have given me your details but I also need your GCE O level results. So to those of you who are definitely applying for BSP then please email me your O level results ASAP.

If you have any doubts regarding the scholarship, please ask me directly.

P/S: to potential BDP scholars, you MUST prepare all documents for the scholarship and please register at their website. All of your certs should be scanned and submitted online along with your application. I will notify you should there be a briefing with regards to the scheme. Don’t forget to collect SCHOLARSHIP application forms from me personally.

ALL THE BEST!!

UCAS application

Good morning all..

Firstly, I just wanted to make it very clear to those students who went to UK exhibition organised by HRD last week and 'received' offers from certain universities without applying to UCAS first and then requesting for a reference from us...

Please make it clear whether you are applying for a scholarship or a private student first because we don't just give out references without proper reasons. So even is you have an offer from a university you still need to apply to UCAS through SMSA first otherwise I will not give out your reference. 

To students who have just started to apply to UCAS, please do so immediately as I will be setting a deadline. All the process to apply to UCAS should be in this blog or you can just see any of us in the Careers office. 

UCAS deadline: Friday, 15th March 2013

For any queries regarding UCAS, please ask us: smsacareers@hotmail.com

Cheers!

UK EXHIBITION

To all students who are applying to study in the UK, British Council will be having an exhibition tomorrow so I highly recommend you to go and seek advice as most universities will be there. Don't forget to bring you results with you and if you have applied to UCAS but received / not received any offers you should speak to the university's representatives. Details of the event are as follows:

 

13 February 2013, 1pm to 7pm, Indera Samudra Grand Hall 3, The Empire Hotel & Country Club  

14 February 2013, 9.30am to 1.00pm, Auditorium, Maktab Duli Pengiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah

List of Exhibitors

Institution	Website
1.     University of Aberdeen	www.abdn.ac.uk
2.     Aberystwyth University	www.aber.ac.uk
Bangor University	www.bangor.ac.uk
4.     University of Bedfordshire **	www.beds.ac.uk
5.     The University of Birmingham	www.birmingham.ac.uk
6.     Birmingham City University	www.bcu.ac.uk
7.     Bradford College	www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk
8.     University of Bradford	www.bradford.ac.uk
9.     Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC)	www.uwic.ac.uk
10.   Cardiff University	www.cardiff.ac.uk
11.   University College Birmingham	www.ucb.ac.uk
12.   University College London	www.ucl.ac.uk
13.   University of East Anglia	www.uea.ac.uk
14.   University of Essex **	www.essex.ac.uk
15.   University of Exeter	www.exeter.ac.uk
16.   University of Glamorgan	www.glam.ac.uk
17.   Highbury College Portsmouth	www.highbury.ac.uk
18.   University of Hull	www2.hull.ac.uk
19.   Keele University	www.keele.ac.uk
20.   University of Kent	www.kent.ac.uk
21.   King’s College London	www.kcl.ac.uk
22.   Leeds Metropolitan University	www.lmu.ac.uk
23.   University of Leicester	www.le.ac.uk
24.   Loughborough College	www.loucoll.ac.uk
25.   Loughborough University	www.lboro.ac.uk
26.   The University of Manchester	www.manchester.ac.uk
27.   Newcastle University	www.ncl.ac.uk
28.   The University of Northampton	www.northampton.ac.uk
29.   Plymouth University **	www.plymouth.ac.uk
30.   Portsmouth University	www.port.ac.uk
31.   Queen Mary, University of London	www.qmul.ac.uk
32.   Queen’s University Belfast	www.qub.ac.uk
33.   University of Reading	www.reading.ac.uk
34.   The University of Sheffield	www.shef.ac.uk
35.   University of Southampton **	www.soton.ac.uk
36.   University of Stirling	www.stir.ac.uk
37.   University of Surrey	www.surrey.ac.uk
38.   Swansea University	www.swan.ac.uk
39.   University of Warwick	www2.warwick.ac.uk
40.   Writtle College	www.worcester.ac.uk
41.   Brunei Darussalam National Accreditation Council **	www.moe.edu.bn
42.   CfBT Education Services (B) Sdn Bhd	www.cfbt.org
43.   Scholarship Section, MoE	www.moe.edu.bn

** These institutions will not be participating in the Maktab Duli Pingiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah event

Seminars

13 February 2013, Seminar Room, Indera Samudra Grand Hall 3,The Empire Hotel & Country Club

Time	Title
2.30pm – 3.15pm	Engineering & Geology Programmes for the Oil & Gas Industry  Dominic Milne, University of Aberdeen
3.30pm – 4.15pm	Tips on Structuring your Personal Statement Lee Wildman, Queen Mary, University of London
4.30pm – 5.15pm	Studying Chemistry in the UK Prof. Upul Wijayantha, Loughborough University
5.30pm – 6.15pm	Applying for postgraduate study in the UK Felicity Lawrence, University of Leicester

14 February 2013, Maktab Duli Pengiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah

Time	Title
10.00am – 10.45am Conference Room	Choosing What and Where to study Felicity Lawrence, University of Leicester
10.00am – 10.45am Student Learning Centre	Studying in the UK Kim Tritton, University of Kent
11.00am – 11.45am Conference Room	Writing personal statements for applying to UK Universities Rachel Tod, Aberystwyth University
11.00am – 11.45am Student Learning Centre	Studying at a UK College Adil Mahmood, Bradford College
12.00pm – 12.45pm Conference room	Studying Engineering in the UK Chris Neville, University of Hull
12.00pm – 12.45pm Student Learning Centre	Hospitality and Tourism Maria Mifsud, University College Birmingham

Attend any of our seminars above to win a surprise gift and complete our visitor’s survey to win fabulous prizes on the exhibition day!

Pre-register on our website and attend our exhibition to stand a chance to win an iPad2 32Gb! 4 units to be given away. Terms and conditions apply.

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Contact person: Cecile Dasal, Education Promotion Officer, British Council/British High Commission

Tel: +673 2237742  Fax: +673 2237392  Email: britishcouncilbrunei@gmail.com