Effects on quality of life at Glamorgan Uni.

Knowing the life is getting more wider with the expeirences. Glamorgan University is a good educational step in my life which improved my bases in dealing with public, relations and the future thoughts. Building future, started from Glamorgan University it expected to prepare me well to a bright future.


Modules taught in the IFP programme are basic and simple and supportive to the students who aim to finish with a powerful foundation program. It is considered as a positive effect on my quality of educational life. However, the chosen subject which are helping at Marketing major firstly, Introduction to Business have given me a brief informations about the general business working and its history. Which the merketing courses needs to know this kind of things to enter the world of business. Secondly law, it is known that if you do not know the law, you will never get better in business , it is all based on law to creat a confident, educated business man personality. Therefore, Glamorgan University's effort is appreciated for preparing and giving a positive quality of life.

Academic culture

Academic culture can be the environment of the students and the way that student study. This kind of culture differs from country to country due to education system practiced.

When started to study in the university, I firstly studied in my home country Qatar it's noticed that the way teaching  differs where students choose their subjects leading them to finish an amount of expected hours in the major. It is totally different in the UK , the university gives a schedule with the subject from your major and let you finish them throughout the year. However, getting shocked is defined according to UKCISA (2012) " the impact of moving from a familiar culture to one which is unfamiliar" it did not affected any shocks comparing because in Qatar it used the same way for teaching in school, and it is positive way for some students. The unusual that it is positive in the academic culture in UK , that they are always known of the restriction with the deadlines , where it is an important rule in English universities either you hav a good excuse with evidence, you will be excused (university of east anglia 2012) . So it is different in the usage of education system and some considerable aspects.











Bibliography

UKCISA (2012) International students and culture shock. Available at:http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/culture_shock.php (Accessed: 14 March 2013).

University of East Anglia (2012) Academic Culture Shock.  Available at:http://www.uea.ac.uk/services/students/let/let_international/academicshock (Accessed: 14 March 2013).

 

The presentation

it is obviouse that after presentation you get a feedback. Personal feed back from yourself and from audeince. Therefore to present you have to prepare for it well, where some tips are useful such as eye contact to attract attention (Amelia 2012)


Personal feed back:

Strenght:

• Good informations
• Time managed
• Non-stoping talk

Weaknesses:

• Focusing on one side
• not very comfortable with the situation
• Distracted by Audience.

Gaby's Feed:

Positives:

• Gestures, eye contact
• Using words such as: moving on , then, the last point ...
• Using examples

Negatives:

• Spelling mistakes
• Lack of references
• stressed

Consequently, having feedbacks is important because this is the way of getting better in the future. As Reich in academic presentation(2008) stated 'Presenting your work is an important part of your research caree'. So, becoming a professional presenter will always lead to to a bright career.













Bibliography

Riech, B. (2008) 'Academic Presentation' Available at: www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~reich/st810A/oral.pdf (Accessed on: 7 March 2013).

Amelia, J. (2012) '22 Marketing presentation steps' Available at: http://www.presentationmagazine.com/22-tips-for-marketing-presentations-2478.htm (Accessed on: 7 March 2013).

Marketing

Marketing is much known in recent days. According to Chartered institute of marketing (2013) ‘Marketing is the management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably’ which is in other words, without marketing there will be no connections between customer, market and seller. Therefore, trying to be important in the business life, marketing major is chosen to study.





Studying in the UK is a step for me to get started with actual study because in Qatar they lack the support to marketers. Marketers in Qatar are not very known and not showing the value of this courses to be well-educated in universities. UK universities use reccomendation to furthur develop the marketing mix module or other similar molels and these models helps internationally the marketing strategies ( Rakesh Kumar 2009). Consequently, the study in a country that real appreciate all business fields is more supportive than other.












Sandstormdigital.com 2012




















Bibliography



CIM 2012,’What is marketing?’ Available at: https://www.dur.ac.uk/communications.office/marketing/(Accessed: 7 March 2013).

Kumar, R. (2009)’Marketing Universities’ Available at: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CJYBEBYwCDgK&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchesterrep.openrepository.com%2Fcdr%2Fbitstream%2F10034%2F99960%2F1%2Fkumar%2520rakeshi%2520kavididevi.pdf&ei=Aq04Uc3yCo7fPZa3gNAL&usg=AFQjCNHpkNGqnWxdt2-94GO5bKxq-uglew&sig2=pZnZa2TdPXCwOco0dhYAnA ( Accessed: 7 March 2013).

Sandstormdigital.com (2012) ' Affiliate marketing' Available at: http://www.sandstormdigital.com/digital-solutions/affiliate-marketing/ (Accessed: 7 March 2013).

Traditions in the UK

Cultures are mostly tend to have something special that show that it is unique, many people when thinking of the United Kingdom they think of numerouse that express Britain. One of the most important thing known about UK is the British tea. In this blog I will talk about this intresting habit that can be considered a tradtion in the UK.

For the hard workers , drinking tea in the afternoon time, is the one called high tea. Acording to Afternoontea.co.uk (2012) ' Tea consumption increased dramatically during the early nineteenth century and it is around this time that Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford is said to have complained of "having that sinking feeling" during the late afternoon'  cosequently, it is as important as the main meal of the day,  this high tea was mostly in the ladies environments and  the dinner enjoyed in houses at seven or eight in the evening. It also can be taken with the meats, bread and cakes. Therefore,  ' The serving of afternoon tea usually takes place in hotels, cafes and tea shops from about 3pm until 5pm, starting with savoury fingers, followed by scones and jam and a selection of cakes.' (Katie Fitzpatrick 2012) , so it it not only maintained at homes. Moreover, it kind of culture and historical habit in the UK 

Bibliography

Afternoontea.co.uk,(2012) ' history of Afternoon tea' Available at: http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=18#.UTOn-CwgGK1 (Accessed: 3March 2013).

Fitzpatrick, K. (2012)' Celebrating the tradition of afternoon tea' Available at: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/celebrating-the-tradition-of-afternoon-tea-693998 (Accessed: 3 March 2013).

Sports in UK

Its known what happened in London 2012 , the olympic games. The olympic games in london made many effects to the country and introduced many sport all together.

 

 

theuksportsnetwork.com (2012)

Ireland:

In Irland there are many sports played , such as Football, Rugby , and Hocky (irelandlogue.com 2013). the irish people concerns about variey of games possibly due to their ideas of enjoying with flexability and health. Moreover, it a possitive point for their body. although they have all these sports , there is a traditional game curling/hurling where the players hit a ball with a stick to score a goal based on some rules from many international sports.

England:

Popular sports in England are football and rugby , where the football showed many professtional player for example , David Beckham was a well known professtional player and other football clubs, I think that English people tend to play football because it was played very much in their history. Whereas, rugby not much popular as the football in England and internationally.

 

Scotland:

In scotland it not very different than England , as they scottish also tending to play football and more intrested in this sport. On the other hand, ther are games intrested in Rugby, and Golf (talentscotland.com 2012).

 

Consequently, rugby and football are the two most popular sports in UK and depends on the background of the nation and what they love and like to play.

 

 

Refrences:


 Irelandlogue.com(2013) ‘ Ireland Sporting Events’. Available at: http://www.irelandlogue.com/sporting-events (Accessed: 28 February 2013)

Talentscotland.com (2012) ‘welcome to sports’ Available at: http://www.talentscotland.com/Students/Live-and-Work/Sport.aspx (Accessed: 28 February 2013)

Theuksportsnetwork.com (2012). Available at: http://www.theuksportsnetwork.com/uk-sport-sport-england-merger-is-the-right-way-forward (Accessed: 28 February 2013)

Parts of Asia and the UK

London can be consideres as the most divers linguistic capital in the world. It is noticed that asians are more participated in the UK. 'Britain's Pakistani community is one of the oldest and largest Pakistani communities outside of Pakistan, with over 100,000 people  in London' (BBC 2008 ). Historically the UK have a good relationship with asia, specially with Pakistan, india, Bangladesh.

Recently, these communities which they speak moslty Udro they have the highest number of the spoken language. Moreover, these communities have changed very much in the UK in a wide range for example , shops, retailers and some are citizens. Beside that, Pakistani and Indian sustenance that is extremely normal these days all through the UK.










BBC (2008) 'Pakistani London'. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/26/pakistan_london_feature.shtml (Accessed: 21 February 2013).

Crime and punishment

Crime & Punishment

1) Should the death penalty exist as a punishment for murder or terrorism?

the equity was greatly strong these days. There was either life sentence in prison or execution. This punishments should be for murderers kilss and get killed , human rights organisations are wanting to change this . 'Execution permanently removes the worst criminals from society and is safer for prison guards, fellow inmates and the rest of us than long term or permanent incarceration' Capitalpunishmentuk.org (2013)

2) Should the main purpose of prison be punishment or rehabilitation?

Well , it is supposed that the main purpose for the prison is rehabilitation the person to not repeat it in the community. Otherwise , the same person will repeat it and the person should be stopped immegiatly at its time. Prisons have to have a kind of teachers deal with the criminals and rehabilate them .

3) What is the best way to deal with juvenile crime such as joy-riding, Vandalism and graffiti?

For the joy-riding , there are many way to deal with is putting larg amount of fines , suspending the car from to be drived in streets. if caught more than 2 times, it goes to the government legally and the owner do not have the right to take it back.

4) Is it ever right for political activists to break the law?

As the political activists are there to change the administration arrangements, they dont have the right that they violate the law. At the same time at times they break laws they suppose they are not honest and they need to be changed .

5) How strict should the law be with people who drink and drive?

These people who drink and drive are mostly who make accedints, in many countries they are only fined , the have to be taken and be sitted in some place to solve their issue of drinking , and make them thinking of the consequences that may happen if they drink and drive.

6) Which is the more serious problem in your county tax evasion or social security fraud?

In Qatar, we do not have evasion tax because we do not pay any tax. The social security fraud appears to be common in many other countries. Usually who commits this kind of crime face low income problem. So social security fraud have to be the one more serious and take it in a justice way  in the community.

7) Should the police have the right to stop and search you in the street without a warrant?

the police must have a warrant , because if they have this right to stop and search some bad side of the police officers can just search for nothing and not suspecting , and the people do have many privacies even the police officer do not have to search in .

8) Should smoking cannabis be a criminal offence?

For general public health, Cannabis is harmful for humans , and more dangerous than smoking tobacco. It should be forbidden as much as possible.

Bibliography:

Capitalpunishmentuk.org (2013) The pros and cons of the death penalty in the USA. Available at: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/thoughtsUS.html (Accessed: 24 January 2013).

Media

	The gurdian	The sun
Language	Formal : Defence secretary outlines British assistance in urgent statement	Lack formality : But as they fled into the desert they burned a library housing
Reporter’s viewpoints	This news paper is more subjective because it talk about what happened in mali with the accurate informations.	The reporter in this newspaper gave a quick view about the talk of David Cameron and the French president and what the wanted to do .
Content details	It give more accurate information about what is happening in mali. Hammond said: "The UK is also prepared to offer up to 200 personnel to provide training to troops from anglophone west African countries contributing to AFISMA, though the numbers required will be dependent on the requirements of the AFISMA contributing nations."	In this news paper the informations quit tend to David Cameron talk , however, it did not mention what Hammond said.
Visual images	Used one picture , which describes the UK troops vehicles in Mali.	Used three pictures , first picture describes the UK troops team while carrying a box , and the other two picture one of them for David Cameron and the other for the French president .

Wintour ,P. and Watt , N (2013) ‘UK troops to be sent to Mali, Downing Street confirms’, The guardian, 29 January [Online]. Available at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/29/uk-troops-sent-mali-confirms?intcmp=239 (Accessed: 30 January 2013).




Dunn ,T (2013) ‘ UK forc heading to Mali ’, The sun, 29 January [Online]. Available at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4767909/UK-force-heading-for-Mali.html (Accessed: 30 January 2013).

LONDON RIOTS

                                                                  ( Okten 2011)



 

London Riots is something that I have not heard or knew about because it might have been shown on TV or newspaper and I am not one of those kinds of people that are interested in daily news .

-          What is a riot ?

A riot is an act of protest if managed group of people then the order breaks and change into ruin other people and government possessions .

-          Why does a riot happen ?

  It can happen because the people’s opinions are opposite to another decision of something in the country , or the people are not satisfied with something and want help .

-          Why did the London riot happen ?

It all started in 2011 when a black man in a suspicious circumstances was killed by the police in a protest for justice to his family as claimed in many news after that the family of the man were getting out to protest in appropriate way and it was a changed to a riot by others .Unsworth said: "We try not to be too prescriptive, but yes we have said actually that they're not protesters they're clearly rioters and looters. They are more descriptive terms and we should try and be as accurately descriptive as we can be." (Halliday 2011) , in other word the people who went out are not to protest they went out to riot . Moreover , after the riot was still going on as a looping act , "The youths had begun attacking police patrol car before the TV crew were targeted and they were withdrawn in the interests of their own safety " ( BBC 2011) in other word , youths had taken it an opportunity to make a riot , and crash shops and the people were running to collect goods .
















Bibiography
 
BBC (2011 ) ' Riots in tottenham after mark duggan shooting protest .Avaliable at :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14434318
(Accessed: 14 jan 2013)

Halliday , J . (2011 ) ' London rioters not protesters ', The Guardian ,  10 August [ Online ]. Avaliable at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/10/london-rioters-not-protesters-bbc?INTCMP=SRCH 
 (Accessed: 14 jan 2013)

Okten,K . (2011 ) London riots escalate as police battle for control . Avaliable at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/08/london-riots-escalate-police-battle 
 (Accessed: 14 jan 2013)

Team work

Team working is process together working with two or more people to achieve a purpose if only one person it can not be considered as a group . For students group working with each other as a team , for example, class work some time needs team work to discuss subjects . However, some  times students do not work as a team work but as individuals . to sum up  , students at university classes try to help each other to achives better goals .

The Welsh Assembly

1. Who designed the building
It was designed by Richard Rogers Prtnership
2. When was it opened and by whom?
The Assembly was opendin the same day of St David day and opend by the Queen of the UK - 1st of March .
3. What materials were used?
They were using a wood imported from canada to build  the upper part of the building .Most of the building on sides is all made out of glasses so in day light you can see the acess of the light into the building  . Finally, they  also used a unique flooring stones came from ( South Wales) .

4. What is particulary special about the building?
The special thing about the building is the heater that came from the Earth , it is a natural heat came from the bottom of the building from a huge hol with deping 100 meters to the deep of the earth.

The two houses of parlimant

The houses of parilament is divided into two parts , The House of Commons and the House of lords . They are almost the same job , and their job is to make laws , solve proplems , and keep in touch with the government achievements .

The Commons is elected by the public .

The Commons is responsible for making decisions on the financial Bills,for example the taxes , they are the one who makes the decision to let people taxes.

Members of the Commons (MPs): they debate to solve the political issues, and they propose laws daily .

The House of Lords  is the other of the UK Parliament.

it does the other work of the House of Commons , it is also make law ,also " holds government to account and investigates policy issues. Its membership is mostly appointed and includes experts in many fields." 

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/system/

The European Union & The Eurozone crisis

The Idea of United Europe come to be strong economic , and it was made 1939-45 .  By 1950 the Britian did not want to join the EEC because of the special relationship with the USA . Initialy france did not also want Britian to join the EEC because there was a critical relationship with USA ." A referendum (also known as a plebiscite or a vote on a ballot question) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal", Wikipedia.

-What percentage of world trade belongs to the EU ?

Goods sold by the EU Member States with third countries (known as the extra-EU trade)

as shown in the figure that the EU have the highest trade percentage in exports . 

The running of the EU involved 5 institutions ; The Europran counsil , The Council of Minister , The European Commission , The European parliment and European Court of Justice . And Every insitution have its own part with the EU .In 2009 Bulgaria and Romaia joined EU .

MEPs means the Member of European Parliaments , it consists of 736 MEPs from all the European Union countries, 78 of them are from the United Kingdom.

Austerity Measures : Is an official action taken by a government in order to reduce the amount of many that it spends or the amount the people spend .

Education systems

Education system in the United Kingdoms and State of Qatar

How Student are educated differs according to the country itself . Curriculum, nationalities, facilities, holidays,treatment, segergation and many other qualities differ from each school to another. Where if we  were to compare between the UK and my home country, Qatar, the diffrences are numerous.

In Qatar there is two kinds of schools, the private school and the public schools. In most private schools it is a mixed gender school whereas in public schools boys are separated from girls . However private schools can cost very much , and more expensive .

Firstly , both public and private schools are very strict on uniforms. All students  have to wear the right and suitable uniform, but in the UK students tend to wear what the student prefer with few regulations . On the otherhand there are some differences in the holidays given to the pupils or to the students , in the UK all universities and schools have the Christmas holiday in December and the Ester after a while , my home country it depends on the schools , if its private it will follow the british holiday system and also Eid holiday which is twice a year. In private schools most teachers comes from the UnitedKingdom.  In Public schools the teachers can be from all over the world , either Egyptian, Qatari and Indian ,but mostly Arabian.

However, to graduate in Qatar students should complete 12 years of education , 6 years in primary, 3 years secondary and finally 3 years in tertiary whereas  in the UK  they have to complete 13 years of education and graduate with A levels. This affect other national students whereby they have to take the IFP ( international foundation program ) to reach 13 years of education.

As a conclution there are many diffrences and a few similarities in the education systems between UK and Qatar . These differences are all about uniforms , holidays , facilities and many other things i discussed.

The 4 Nations ( UK )

It makes sense, in these days , to wonder how Britain came to be composed of four different countries. The essential point to note is that neither the creation of Great Britain, or the much earlier onset of the nations of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh was inevitable.

 

United Kingdoms 

The UNION FLAG , known as the Union Jack Used as the FLAG OF UK

1- ENGLAND

 Flag : also known as the St George's Cross

Englad is known for many things famous for its educational institutes. It has some of the most famous universities of the world for example Oxford, Cambridge .

As a view it is famous also for its green hills and fertile lowlands ,castles and Historic houses as a history .

and it is the largest nation between the four nations .

Fact : The people of England consume more tea per capita than in any other country in the world .

                                                                      2- WALES

  

Flag : also known as Red Dragon or Y Ddraig Goch 

Wales is known for its speacial accent , and little differs from the english , and wales have  a population of 2,999,300 people , the capital of Wales is Cardiff .

and it is also famous of thier musicans , actors and the writers .

Fact :  Wales is a principality. that mean the rules are made by the prince. Traditionally the Prince of Wales is the eldest son of the English monarch.

 

3-SCOTLAND

Flag:  it is known as the saltire. It is also known as St Andrews Cross.

Scotland is a land of inventions and myths and legends. they are also famous of poets , Robert Burns, and James Bond actor, Sean Connery. Most people knows Scotland when they see whiskey, bagpipes and kilts.

Fact : Scots began to wear kilts in protest, and so the garments came to represent a romantic ideal of Scotland's past.

4-Northern Ireland

Flag: It is made from an amalgamation of the crosses of St George

It have it major cities Belfast, Londonderry, Lisburn, Newtonabbey, Bangor, Craigavon and have a population of 1,789,000 estimated at 2009

in the northern ireland the speak 3 languges English, Irish and Ulster Scots

with two nationalities the British and The Irish

Fact : HMS Titanic ship was built in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland3

Sources used :

• http://geography.about.com/od/unitedkingdommaps/tp/united-kingdom-regions.htm
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• http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/meaning-of-the-scottish-flags.html
• http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_7908457_scottish-children.html
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• http://www.ehow.com/about_6321694_do-people-scotland-wear-kilts_.html
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_flags_issue



Hello everyone !

Hi All,

How you doing ?
This is abdulaziz albader from the State of Qatar ,

Hope every one enjoys the IFP and finish it quickly . =P

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