 Hello, welcome. Thank you very much for being here, for joining our event today. My name is Alice. I work at the admissions office here at Proud College and I'm here today with my colleague Anna. Hello everyone, my name is Anna. I'm Alice's colleague and we are going to explain you how to apply for our programs. Yes, so we thought to organize this event to just walk you through our application process. So if you decide to apply, it would be as smooth as possible. So this session, it was organized as a follow-up to our recent event, which is called Battle of the Programs where our current students were talking about what makes each program unique. So if you're interested about this event, all of the videos and live streams they were recorded and you can find them on our Facebook page in the section, in the video section, you can find all of them there. So as you will have heard our students during this Battle of the Programs event, here at Proud College, we offer practical and hands-on learning experiences and international environment. And by the end of your studies, you will receive a British internationally recognized diploma. So if you choose the foundation level, you will receive a Pearson certificate. And if you choose to go for bachelor's or master's degree, you will receive a diploma that is issued by our educational partner in the United Kingdom T-Side University. So if you decide to apply, here you can see our entry requirements. So for the foundation level and for the bachelor's level, you would need to upload a high school diploma, IELTS TOEFL or Duolingo, English certificate, letter of motivation, which is around 300 words, also copy of your passport. If you decide to go for a school or button design program, you would also need to upload a portfolio of your creative works. We will send you the portfolio requirements, so please do not worry, you will have a guidance. If you decide to go for master's degree, you would also need to upload a CV. Of course the confirmation would be, confirmation of completed education would be your bachelor's degree. Yeah, and you would need to upload a CV and recommendations letter. There are also scholarship applications available and we would be able to give you more information on it when you decide to apply. So right here you can see the steps that you would need to go through if you wish to become a Pratt College student. So the first thing, of course, you would need to apply for your chosen program. In order to do that, you would need to upload all the documents that are mentioned before to the application package that we will send to you. It is an online platform and you would need to fill in the personal information and there will be slots where you will upload all of these documents. But I will show you later what it looks like. So after that, after you've uploaded all of the documents, if they meet the requirements, we will move to the next step, which is the final interview with the program leader. So if you successfully pass that, we will send you the offer to study and if you accepted, we will send you the invoice and after it's paid, you will confirm your place on the program. After that, if you are an international student, then you would need to apply for a visa. If not, then you can just start your studies and skip the visa part. And after it, you can start in person or in the digital campus. Yeah, so now I would like to show, let me just, if you give me one second, I'm going to show you what this application package looks like. So this is what you will receive. Once you decide to apply here, you will see the name of your school that you decided to apply. And if we go down first thing, you would need to fill in is to choose your program. So if you click right here, you can see different programs. After that, you can choose your preferred stop date and then you would need to fill in your personal details. So right here, you can see all of that. Then you fill in your educational background and there's the language skills and also then there is visa requests. So if you are an international student right here, you would need to choose. Yes, I wish to apply for a visa. If you are a local student or an EU student, of course you don't have to. Then there is the accommodation request. So right here, again, you can choose one of our student residences or if you decide to arrange your own house and you can choose the second option. So here you have scholarship application and right here also there is emergency contact. Just one thing to note, if you are under the age of 18, we kindly ask you to submit the contact details of your parent care or legal guardian. So there are other things. And here is the section, so section number nine, where you can see all the slots where you've uploaded the documents. So here's the confirmation of completed education, English level, letter of motivation, copy of your passport and here, if you decide to apply for art and design, school of art and design programs, right here you would need to upload your portfolio in PDF. If you decide to apply for a scholarship, here is the part we need to apply some additional documents and this is it. So here you can read our agreement and if you go down when you completed the application and you submitted all of the documents and fill in all the personal information you would need to sign the document and finalize it. Once it's finalized, we will receive a notification that you've submitted. The document is automatic so we will know when your application is ready. So at this point, we would like to go back to the presentation and my colleague Anna will give you more information on how we're planning to teach in September 2021. Thank you Alice. So hello everyone again. We are opening the September semester with face to face teaching. Of course, if the local and global restrictions allow it, you might be interested to know that the pandemic situation in the Czech Republic has improved a lot lately and the restrictions are easing step by step. So universities, for example, can fully resume their in-person classes next week on Monday which is a pretty big step. Prague College continues to accept local students, EU students and international students as well to September 2021 semester start. If you're an international student and you experience some delays with your visa application or you face some travel restrictions, we guarantee that you can start your studies on time in the digital campus. Our programs run last semester in the digital campus so our lecturers are already experienced and we are also ready to run these programs in September in hybrid format which means with students who can be here, they will attend in-person classes and students who cannot get here, they will study in the digital campus. You might already know lots of information about our study programs. What you might not know is that as part of studying with us, we have a great number of extracurricular activities that students can take part in. In the September 2021 semester, some of these activities will run in the digital campus and some of these activities will run in-person. Actually, ironically, thanks to the pandemic and thanks to our digital campus, we've been able to organize events with speakers from different parts of the world, which was not possible before and it was pretty exciting. Moving to the next slide, whichever way you will be studying with us from September, you will be supported in your preparation for the beginning of your studies. So in case you are arriving in Prague in person, we have a dedicated member of student services who will help you to understand what you need to expect while entering the Czech Republic in terms of any requirements. For students both in the digital campus and in person at Prague College, we organize a welcome week. This is a week happening one week before the semester starts and it's an important time for students because they get to know their classmates, they get to know the environment, they get to know their teachers. Students will be helped in settling in Prague and getting familiar with the city and with some practicalities. You will be also introduced to a designated study advisor from student services who will support you throughout your studies at Prague College and you will be also introduced to the extracurricular activities that I talked about. So we have student societies, for example. So in the past, or actually this semester, students have been practicing yoga or meditation. So these are just two examples of what you can do. There are many more to be honest and it varies each year depending on what the students are interested in. We also do have a student council, international association and other events that you can take part. I think we can move to the next slide, thank you. I'm sure you know at the moment that Prague College is located in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague is the capital of the country. Prague College has three campuses. The main campus is really close to the city center. It's in a residential neighborhood with lots of cafes, restaurants around. There is a park actually in front of our building. It's a very nice area. To be, then we have two locations with our art and design studios. So one of them is at Prague one, which means in a very city center, very close to the old town of Prague. And the other location is a little bit further from the city center in a former industrial area. And our master students at School of Art and Design are working there. And we've also held some exhibitions there. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Prague, but just to tell you briefly that Prague is very easy to gather around there. We have very good network of public transport. So you won't get lost. It's not a huge, huge town. It is a capital. So you will find all the benefits of living in a big city here, but you won't feel that it's that huge. It has about one million and something inhabitant. So it's very pleasant to live. There is always lots of things going on. So in your free time, there are lots of exhibitions that you can attend or concerts and other culture events. Talking about the locations and campuses, I think we can move to the next topic, which is student accommodation. So we work with a number of student residences. If you're interested in living in a student residence, you can indicate it in the application package, which Alice kindly showed you a few minutes ago. So please take the option there if you're interested in having a room in a student residence. For actually to all our international students, we recommend staying in a student residence, student house cottage. It is a very nice residence located in a neighboring part of town, sorry, part of Prague next to the district where the main campus is located. This residence offers twin rooms and the price is around 300 euros per month, approximately depending on the room. As you can see, we work also with other accommodation providers. Sign from is a student residence as well and they offer a limited number of single rooms. If you're interested, the price is a little bit higher and some other alternatives are the FIS and studio room flood. These are offering private apartments and flat share. The price will depend on the location and the type of the apartment. So if you want to get more information, please go directly to their websites. They have pictures so you can see how their accommodation looks like. At this stage, I think it would be useful for you to see our admission deadlines in case you are now designing whether to apply or not. So let's start with deadlines for students who do not need a visa to study, which means local students and EU students. So we have a deadline actually coming up pretty soon. It's by the end of May. So if you are now thinking about applying for a program to study from September, we would recommend submitting your application by the end of May. But this way, you secure your place in the program. Maybe we've actually briefly said it at the beginning, but just to add, we keep our class sizes small, so places are limited, especially in the study programs at School of Art and Design. So yeah, I would recommend applying by the end of May. For international students, thank you, Alice. You still have time to apply, but again, we would recommend taking the decision soon if you'd like to study with us from September, 2021. As you can see, we have also a semester start in February, 2022. This is because almost all our programs do open twice a year in September and in February. We are already accepting applications for February, 2022, and if you apply early and secure your place by an early deadline, you can get a discount on your first semester tuition or a really nice bonus on top of the awarded amount of the scholarship if you apply for one and R, awarded one. So logically, we do also have a start in September, 2022, which might be really too far in the future, but in case you're interested in that semester start, we are not accepting applications yet, but we will be soon. So just to tell you about the September, 2022 as well. Speaking about September, 2022, which is far away, it reminds me that I wanted to also show you what we offer as courses during the summer school. So I'll just maybe ask Alice to put the slide on. Yes, thank you. So in case some of you are thinking about actually studying already in summer to enhance your skill and to have some fun. So please visit our website to check what courses we are offering. Most of the courses they will run online. They will run over three weeks. It will be the second half of June and beginning of July. And as I said, most of them will run in the digital campus. And I'll just kindly ask maybe Alice to show the list of the courses. So we have different fields. We have an art course in studio painting, which is a first course, thanks. Then we have a course within the IT field, which is website design and development, a very popular one. And then we have a couple within the business area, let's say. So we do have a financial crime course, ethics, morality and society course. And the last one, it's quantitative analysis using spreadsheets. So this is what we are offering. If you are thinking about studying in summer, you can fill in the form on our website and we will send you a short application form over email. I think we are coming to the end of our presentation. We appreciate that you might have some questions and we are happy to answer those. You can get in touch either via email at admissions at procollege.csat. However, if you prefer to speak to us in person and it is more comfortably you, we can also get in touch over Zoom. So at this point, if you have any questions, please write those in the chat on Facebook. We will just stay a little bit more to see if they are any. We do already have, I think, from Facebook. So the question is, can we apply from Nepal and what are the visa possibilities? It's the person from Santosh from Facebook. Thanks, Alice. So yes, you can apply to study with us from Nepal. In your case, really the best would be if we can advise you individually. So if you're already in touch with one of us or a different admission advisor, please get in touch and we can schedule a call to explain all the details. But if you're thinking about September, starting from September, please do it soon so that we can make sure that you have all the relevant information. Do you want to add anything, Alice? I think no. Okay. Yeah. I don't think so. So you also, I believe that our guest from Zoom can also use the chat function to ask questions here as well. That is true. So we can just wait a little bit. Yes. Maybe in the meantime, I was talking about Prague. Myself, I'm from Prague. It is my hometown. My colleague, Alice, is not. So if you want to add anything regarding, you know, how is it for you in Prague, you're welcome to, because you get this. You have the international perspective. That's true. That's being rather than me, Prague is my hometown. So I don't really have this perspective. Yes. That's true. So I am originally from Russia. I moved here, I think it was almost two years ago. So I do have now a bit of experience, of course. Most of it was during pandemic, which was I could not get the full, could not feel and explore everything that Prague has to offer. But still, it is a wonderful city and it is great for students. It is international and you don't have to be scared. For example, if you're not really fluent in Czech, you can use English language and you can, yes, and you, it is possible to find people that also only speak English and to have like some sort of community until you learn Czech or maybe you just decide to speak English only. This up to you. I think we have another question in the chat. So how can we talk to a counsellor? That's the question. Yes, so after you are enrolled and you are our student, it would be possible to speak to the student services that would be able to help you and to give you the relevant contacts and to connect you to the person. Is there anything you would like to add, Anna? Yeah, I think that that's it. And I'm not sure if maybe this student is asking about an admission advisor, rather. I'm not sure, but in this case, if you are not in touch yet with admission advisor from Prague College, please just, you can even chat your email address here if you're happy to or you can write us an email at admissions at prakollege.cz. We can write the address right here in the Zoom chat as well. And this way we get your contact and we can schedule a Zoom call or we can just have the conversation over email. It's up to you. So here is our email. I'm just going to put it in the chat. Maybe it's a bit easier for you to just copy and paste it. Yeah. Yeah, and also just going back to the international and people being from different places. I just wanted to mention that as I from Russia, I would also be happy to talk and speak and communicate in Russian language if it is more comfortable for you. And of course, Anna would be happy to do it in Czech for our Czech speakers. Thanks. Thank you, Alice. Okay, so I think if you don't have any more questions, we can end this session. If you do have more questions about a specific program that you are interested in, do not hesitate to go on our Facebook page and look out for those videos from the Battle of Programs event that happened this week or as we said, just get in touch over email and we will be happy to talk to you individually whether it is about the visa question or the content of the program or the admission process. Yes. Yes, so I can see there is the last question. Yes, so if you would like to get advice on the programs that we provide, yes, please, you could leave your email here in the chat and we will send you more information on the programs that we offer or you could email us admissions at praccollege.cz and again, we would be happy to reply and give you more information. Send you our brochures and the module descriptions. Yes, perfect. So thank you all for listening. It was nice to have you here virtually. Have a great rest of your day and your weekend and we hope you will get in touch with us soon and eventually maybe become a student at praccollege. Thank you. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. Bye.