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Study Group sets new UK Quarantine Fund to strengthen it’s employability offering for Indian students

Study Group students to professionally develop their skills via remote internships.

Study Group: As part of its comprehensive and holistic employability offering, leading international education provider Study Group is delighted to introduce a new Quarantine Support Fund to help students to study and work in the UK from September.

Study Group: To help indian students to access UK Higher Education pathway programmes in the 2021/2022 academic year, Study Group will make £1,000 available to eligible students from countries on the UK’s current travel “red list” to support with managed quarantine hotel costs. Many indian are making their decisions in the coming weeks and arranging their abroad travel plans, so the fund is available to learners that confirm their place by July 16 for a programme starting in September, October and November 2021.

The UK Quarantine Support Fund is available to applying to at all of Study Group’s UK International Study Centres (ISC), including Kingson University ISC, Teesside University ISC, the University of Huddersfield ISC and Coventry University London ISC. 

As Group CEO Emma Lancaster comments: “Study Group’s UK Quarantine Support Fund has been developed in response to research with our indicating that learners seeking international higher education opportunities would prefer to quarantine than defer their academic programme. This is because they seek an on-campus experience to gain the global exposure that supports their future work prospects.

By launching a new Quarantine Support Fund, we are actively providing additional assistance for from countries currently on the UK’s travel “red list”, by easing the financial implications of quarantine requirements in the UK. The Fund also strengthens Group’s broad employability offering, which is designed to help them successfully and work in the UK, while simultaneously facilitating their progression to higher education and employment post-graduation.”

Group’s employability offering includes ‘Prepare for Success,’ ‘Job Ready’ and ‘Virtual Internships.’ These innovative strategic initiatives have been established to enable learners to seamlessly progress to UK universities and gain the key employability skills needed to thrive in a 21st Century workplace:

●     Prepare for Success: An online programme that supports to acquire the language, life and learning skills to effectively transition from home to overseas study. As a direct result of the programme, 82% of learners enrolled in the course felt sufficiently prepared to start their academic studies.
●     Job Ready: Indian can earn while they learn, to develop key transferable skills and gain valuable work experience while they study in the UK, with Group’s free employability service.
●     Virtual internships: Group has partnered with Virtual Internships Partners Ltd. to offer indian students’ online internships and global work placements across 70+ different countries and over 40+ industries. Virtual Internships works alongside over 4,000 companies worldwide to enable thousands of to professionally develop their skills via remote internships.

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