{"id":14367,"date":"2015-04-07T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2015-04-07T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:02:51","slug":"the-academic-scholarship-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/04\/07\/the-academic-scholarship-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academic Scholarship (EU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMy name is Sophie, I am 23 years old and I am originally from France. I received the BU Academic Scholarship (EU) <\/a>to help me to do a Master\u2019s degree in Hotel and Food Service Management<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My academic pathway has been a long search for what I really want to do. After my French A-levels, I did a two year degree in France in Business and Sales. I found it interesting, but didn\u2019t really want to work in this area, as it didn\u2019t suit my creative personality.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked travelling, so I decided to enrol at a university in Dublin to continue my Bachelor\u2019s degree in Entrepreneurship – and it was the perfect compromise between business and creativity! I learned to do a business plan, and develop business opportunities. During this time, I also realised that food \u2013 a normal cultural French interest \u2013 was more than just a hobby. I did most of my Entrepreneurship projects on food or hospitality businesses. I also worked for hospitality companies and food retails during the summer breaks. It all made me realise that I really wanted to work in the hospitality industry, and one day, set up my own company!
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\nI was very motivated and worked hard. It paid off as I had very good results in my exams, which resulted in me getting the BU Academic Scholarship: a \u00a32000 reduction on my tuition fees, automatically awarded. I was very proud to get this scholarship. I\u2019ve always been an average student, but with the goal to pursue my studies in hospitality at BU, I had to get good results to get into the Master\u2019s programme, and it really motivated me to study. It was hard as English is not my first language, and I was far from home, but this scholarship proves to me that it was all worth it.<\/p>\n

Doing a Master\u2019s degree at BU is the final step I need to pursue my dream. I\u2019ve finally found what I want to do with my life, and this gives me the final pieces of knowledge that I need to work in the industry. I enjoy the variety of classes that we have, from general tourism to specific types of restaurants, as well as hearing from many conference and guest speakers. I chose to do the placement unit and study abroad option, which allows me to work for 15 weeks and spend a semester in a university abroad to learn more about hospitality, in a different academic environment. I love how BU encourages us to broaden our horizons, by welcoming students and lecturers from all around the world and offering us many options in our studies.<\/p>\n

By Sophie de Ganay<\/em><\/p>\n

You can find out more about the Academic Scholarship for UK\/EU students on our website.<\/a><\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Sophie, I am 23 years old and I am originally from France. I received the BU Academic Scholarship (EU) to help me to do a Master\u2019s degree in Hotel and Food Service Management. My academic pathway has been a long search for what I really want to do. After my French A-levels,… Read more » about The Academic Scholarship (EU)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[1688,295,2093,255,2260],"class_list":["post-14367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-academic-scholarship","tag-funding","tag-msc-hotel-and-food-service-management","tag-scholarships","tag-sophie-de-ganay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}