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28-05-2008

 Students in Barcelona receive healthcare services from HTH Worldwide

Students in Barcelona receive healthcare services from HTH WorldwideOver 600 students in Barcelona that are participating in the program sponsored by CEA-Global Education Solutions will be provided with care by HTH Worldwide. This was realized after the company was able to seal a deal with USP Institut Universitari Dexeus Hospital in Spain. CEA is providing student-participants access to the leading medical providers for free. The report also revealed that CEA Global participants will be given the HTH Worldwide group health plan that will allow them access in the program such as emergency services and outpatient care in one of the facilities of USP which is highly regarded. This means when the CEA participant presents the ID bearing the logo of HTH the hospital would only bill payment directly to HTH. Many students are no longer worrying about their present health concerns because of the total support made by HTH.

Idoia Garcia Elizalde, campus director for CEA said USP Hospitales is happy its company serves the students that are under the program. The students are very happy to note, however, that they become program beneficiaries. This means they would not be worried about their health because the program is giving them total support in the top hospital facilities in Barcelona. Aside from this, the USP Hospitales is also glad to have served the members of HTH Worldwide since 2005. They also welcome any opportunity for increased service if the HTH also increase its members.

Francisco Palmer, USP Hospitales marketing director said any move for increasing membership beneficiaries into the program by HTH is always a welcome development. He said expansion of HTH’s program is always looks forward to by their company in the near future.

Laura Hilton, director for Global Health and Safety Services of HTH Worldwide said their company is always been delighted working with USP in raising the standard of caring its member beneficiaries of the program. She said HTH World is one of the world’s leaders of health insurance for specialized programs such as study abroad. There are now over 5,000 hospitals that became partners of HTH since it started to serve clients in 180 countries.

In fact, HTH has become among North America’s top companies in Deloitte’s Fast 500. This goes to show how big HTH now in terms of capital investments the poured in many countries of the world.

Barcelona is only one of the active cities in the world where the HTH programs are concentrated – with the company’s commitment of serving the world in healthcare services.


06-12-2007

 A Student Exchange Program in the Middle of Christmas in Spain

A Student Exchange Program in the Middle of Christmas in SpainIF you are from the United States, try going to Spain this Christmas for a change. Nope, you will not be on 100 percent vacation here if you’re still a college student. How about availing of a student exchange program here instead? It’s better if you’re Hispanic and you’re taking a course in international relations because you will really feel at home here. You don’t need to anymore adjust with the language here; you just need to adjust with the culture.

You may find it a little awkward here and you may find it to be a little “backward” here too because of the natives being ultra-conservative. But make no mistake about it, Spain is a very developed country and in fact was once upon a time during the last millennium, a world conqueror. Even America was conquered by Spain before the British settled in. So feel at home in a country where your first language has its roots.

Whereas a typical Christmas in the United States is anything but religious, here they dig into religious devotions seriously. If you are taking a course in international relations back home in the United States, then an excursion into several areas in Spain during the holidays can be charged as curricular-related and all expenses will be paid either by your scholarship or by the university or club that has sponsored your student exchange program. But you have to make sure though that you will liquidate everything that you have done here. By liquidation, I don’t mean just the financial side of it. I mean the academic side as well – meaning, you must have learned something in the overseas trip related to the course that you are taking up back home in the United States.

Try to go to Garabandal at the northern part of the country and see pilgrims from all over the world believe that they are healed by a miraculous site there. Garbandal is one of the few places in Europe where apparitions by the Virgin Mary occurred in the 1960s and even up to this day, many Roman Catholics flock this unassuming simple town. Or maybe you want to stroll around the beaches in the Mediterranean regions of Spain, befriend the locals who speak Spanish like you and eat the freshest fish in the world directly obtained from a local fisherman and straight to the grill in your vacation home.

Surprisingly, the Mediterranean is also home to a lot of nudist beaches which you can never find in Orange County or in Jersey City. This is where Spain as a land of contrasts comes in. But the patrons and the owners of these nudist beaches are Scandinavian though because most of the Spaniards are still conservative by nature. Also in Spain, you will find Roman Catholic churches which have Gothic designs. This is not a blasphemy but it has been a tradition since the olden times to erect these designs to lure in the native settlers to convert to Catholicism.

There really is plenty to do should you come to Spain and all the better is you have friends to do it with! These can be course friends, friends from work or who you meet on your nights out - what’s important is that you have people to enjoy the immensely varied nightlife with! Be it at the poker tables of a glamorous casino, the bar of a cocktail joint or the dance floor of a top club (Barcelona has some of the best electronic DJs!), you’ll be sure to have fun during your Spanish studies!


04-12-2007

 Studying media profession in Spain

Studying media profession in SpainThere are many choices of profession that drag your mind while you have not yet enrolling yourself in college. You feel confused what course you like to part of and where in the countries worldwide you are interested to be imparting with. High school graduate students are too excited to experience the life of college, the reason why they make sure that they can launch their studies in one of the most prestigious Universities worldwide. They also wanted to make sure that the professions they are going to take are those which are very challenging and adventurous as well.

In Spain, you can locate for yourself in the most challenging profession you want to be immersed with. The media institution profession; you can enroll yourself at the City and Guilds International Media techniques. You can surely show yourself in media industry if you are engaging yourself in this programme. You will be experiencing a hands-on practice during your classes, and you will also experience to part of a group working with the significant assignments your team is assigned. Studying in Spain with this course will let you learn how to produce direct, present magazine programmes. You will then know the real relationship between the media and the law issues. You are also taught on news reporting, interviewing, editing, news presentation and programming. Learning about directing and producing as well as presentation of documentary programmes. You will be assigned to have a studio production, directions, lighting, cameras, sound/visual and mixing desk. The filming, directing and short drama series could also be expected for you to learn during your media studies in Spain.

You can take your experience into all sorts of industries and jobs - from working in an agencia de viajes (very popular given tourism level are still incredibly high in Spain) to hotel management - the skills translate and really give you free choice to do work in the industry which most interests you!

Skilled students can easily adopt the profession and they are expected to become expert when immersing themselves to study this profession in Spain. There are actually bundles of students’ worldwide choosing Spain just to venture their media profession. Specifically at the City and Guilds International since they mostly trained their students how to use such media gadgets like cameras, videos and more. They let them produce their own film as well as write their own scripts. All the expected work in the media industry is taught through the students in order for them to become successful media men afterwards. However, students should necessarily passed the six units work over the year to hop on the next level of the profession. All of the course as well as the written work are check by the external verifier from exactly in the City and Guilds International. If you are fortunate to pass the written exam, then you are probably distinguished by the media industry around the world. The media profession is never that easy, you better make the best of your ability to won the challenges you are facing. However, taking it seriously could make you a successful professional media man. In Spain taking the media course is such a challenge as well as the opportunity of roaming around this place full of panoramic views. You will then learn to adopt the culture and the tradition they have and the way they live.

The good news is that you can integrate into the culture of Spain by having fun! Be it socialising in bars, on dancefloors or at poker tables (do like the French do and practise in a casino en ligne beforehand) - you’re sure to have fun and meet a great variety of people - what better way to see the real Spain?


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