 Hello, my name is Kahakur. I currently study in international finance and management accounting. And before Basra, I actually studied and foundation of business in black pledge as well. So today I would like to talk about my experiences in foundation of business first. So I went to the, I started my line in black college, I think, two, three years ago. And at the time, I just graduated from my high school. So I actually cannot speak English at all. So like I went there, but on the first class was like business law. And I have, I didn't have any idea what the teacher said about. So like very fast day, I feel like maybe I came to a long place. But like, I realized how the foundation of course was really attractive for me. So one of the reason is just because of the fast day, I feel like because of my lack of my English skill, I couldn't catch up the class because of the like supportive environment in black college. Like the teacher really understood my situation like my English level. So he tried to make me understand until I feel like everything's clear. So that's really like, I feel like comfortable for this one. And also in other class, like there was only 110 people in my class. So like for example, nine of our classmates understand and only me can understand. Then like the teacher and the classmates also like tried to teach me. So that's really feel like supportive, like not only for a teacher, for classmates. So like that's why I feel foundation of course is really good. And a couple of months later, I start like understanding a little bit. So like the teacher and black college offer a lot of wide and basic opportunity for us. For example, like I think there are many weeks or in a few weeks or a few months, a guest speaker came to our college and any of us can go there to listen that like extra business person story. So that's really like to be honest, in the beginning I started learning in black college. I didn't have that much interest in business but like because of a guest speaker and the teacher offered a lot like a lot of experiences like story and opportunity. Like for example, I started a college to find us, as I say. So the teacher such like offered or like talkable ACCA, which is like accounting thing, like certificate accounting. Like other time I didn't have that much interest but like because of the like class style, like in front accounting class, I think. Like I thought like before the black college, I just wanted high school like taking a note and memorize all and do an exam in black college. Like I understand like how that thing could be applied in a real business situation. So like I can't get a lot of such kind of imagination. Like if I work in accounting sector, like I can do like this, like such a kind of a thing and guest speaker story make me like more interesting in business. So that's like, that's really unique to black college. That's why I think if a foundation course, we can get a lot of like knowledge and insight into the like business. So I really like the things when I was in the foundation also not only for bachelor, not only in foundation but bachelor also has very small size of class. When I was in a foundation course, just 10 people, so like we can talk like so closely. Like if someone has some opinions or doubt for that, like relating to the class, some like anybody can ask the teacher during the class and sometimes that would be expand like discussion in a class. Like I have no such kind of experiences in high school or middle school. So like for me it was really new and interesting thing like lecture style. So for me it was like until black college, I didn't think like learning isn't not that much interesting like just learning and memorizing things. So in black college just like I don't use my brain and think how the world or the society works. So if I didn't come to black college, I don't think I can think like that, like use brain and analyze the situation of the society. So even in foundation, I can get such a kind of skills and how do you think like critically. So that's for me. I think it was a party for me to go to black, foundation or business in black college before starting a virtual league. I like to add what I said in supportive environment. I have a friend who is also Japanese girl who struggle with her English skill. So one day she went to student service and department and asked for some help for her English skill or like English. So suddenly the new class appeared in the middle of a semester which was like academic English to support someone who needs help like how to make a PowerPoint much filler looks good or how to make proper differences or how to make a clear sentences. So those don't think I didn't actually expect that thing because my son, like my friends, my classmates for me were really native speaker or one speaker. So I just felt I was only me who cannot speak English so because of the like helping the English I can understand a lot of people saying and I can like in report even I struggle and virtual from my English but every teacher understand my situation, my English. So if I ask teacher like something I don't I can understand even online class or face to face class they can have like individual session until I fully understand. That's really only university or college that do offer to us like individually. Yeah, that's why I feel foundation of business and flag college is attractive for me and helpful. Thanks Kaho. I think I'm gonna take over now. My name is Ireland Reddy. I'm from South Africa and I'm studying international finance and business accounting. Kaho also studies international finance and business accounting and she did the foundation and I didn't but we wanna tell you a bit about the course. So international finance and business accounting what makes the course at Prague College super unique is just the approach to finance and to accounting itself. And as Kaho was saying there are different opportunities with SEMA and ACCA which are presented to us on a daily and we can either engage in the course or not it's additional. And then what was really the most unique thing I think about our course was there was a FinTech class and we're still taking it but we've already done a project on it. And I found it so relevant in what was going on today just in the news and the world and the FinTech course basically teaches you financial technology and it teaches you about cryptocurrency and blockchain and but it goes so much further than that it actually teaches you about regulations transfer of money and it was so relevant because what's going on in the news today is literally all about cryptocurrency and Elon Musk and what he's doing and for us to get an inside view on that system and how the movement of money is working I think it fundamentally changed at least my perspective of money which was very important for me. And then as Kaho was saying the class sizes are really, really small but it's definitely done on purpose and the attention to detail is definitely there. Every student receives a different level of assistance especially if you're struggling in one area you're struggling in another area. The support from student services as Kaho was saying as well and just from the lecturers themselves is just amazing. We have access to the faculty anytime that we need and they provide additional materials sometimes they have one-on-one sessions with us just to give us a bit of a boost if we're struggling in a certain area. The international finance course itself has different sections and on average you're gonna have maybe I would say between three and four modules every semester and for the first year or so I would say for the first maybe two semesters I think that's right. For the first two semesters every student whether you study international management or international finance pretty much takes the same courses because they all form the basic requirements of any business degree and you take things like HR management and introduction to contemporary marketing which is super, super important when you're going forward. The HR management course was actually invaluable because it taught us from the first year how to be hireable and how to essentially appeal to recruiters because once you learn what HR management is and what people are looking for then you know how to become employable going forward and they taught us very valuable skills they taught us about LinkedIn so we all set up LinkedIn profiles and we move forward like that they taught us CV and resume skills and then just from the faculty's point of view there are so many different events that the faculty and the student services run for students but the goal of it is to boost students. So every semester there is a CV and a resume course which students are invited to. All students can attend they can come and get their CVs reviewed and they can get advice. The university also offers career placement which is quite unique because we have a career fair every year and the university has partners that they frequently interact with which is great because for a university to have relationships with corporates makes our lives so much easier because as Kaho was saying there's always guest speakers that come to talk to us and it keeps us up to date with what is happening in the corporate environment because we're kind of in a bubble if you wanna think about it but what Prague College does is it kind of leaves holes in that bubble and it guides us towards it so that we can see what's going on on the outside and be the most up to date that we can. And I think the last thing probably is that the university has a career board which is on all of our profiles. So people who are part of the public can't see it but if you're a student they post all the internships all the opportunities with corporates on this career board and any student can look at it and apply as long as it's relevant to your course. And I think that I, that's me done. So Kaho went over is there any way to support your English? And she was saying how there was superior support for English at the university. How are the modules? So a common question is how are the modules assessed and put very simply you have internal assessments and you have external assessments. So what you'll find is in any module that you do you're gonna have a smaller assignment which is your first assignment it introduces you to the subject matter it gets you very comfortable with it sometimes it will be an essay or a report perhaps it's a small test or a small exam it's on the smaller side it generally only counts for between I would say 30 and 40% and then you have your ECA which is your big assignment that's what gives you a majority of your grade but by the time you write your ECA you are well into the module so you're very familiar with the subject matter you've learned quite a bit about what is actually about what the course actually is and what the course is teaching and then you write your ECA your ECA can come in the form of a report and essay a big exam which is for what we have coming up Kaho and myself is we have an exam for economics which is a three hour paper you can't really, you know in university especially for business you can't really expect to have an exam that's less than three hours so generally you have that three hour paper and that gives you between 60 to 70% of your grade Kaho do you wanna take the question? Well, for foundation I think there are a lot of different and it's more easy to understand the result of what we got so like we have only internal assessment which is like by the lecturer who teach us the class and there was only like three grade types like distinction, merit and I forgot the one but like that's three and we don't have any exam and also we have like just dependent on the class we have some time three assignment or four assignment in the one semester with some class for just two assignments so like just dependent on the class and teacher so I just supplies a little bit when I went to the bachelor because we just have only two assignments but I felt what I learned in foundation business is really helpful when I would do the assignment in the bachelor but I can't say it does more harder than the assignment in the foundation course. Okay, and then there's another common question I suppose maybe people wanna hear about the digital campus because I mean so relevant during COVID we were all, I think all students were kind of destabilized when COVID hit because suddenly we couldn't learn in a classroom and we also just, we were feeling a lot of anxiety quite honestly, I think everybody in the world was and we didn't know how we were gonna kind of get through a bachelor's degree because we were studying finance and we were freaking out because I mean it's already difficult enough to be learning management accounting and financial accounting which is something we do in a classroom because we learn, I would say it's pretty advanced stuff and so we were feeling very destabilized as a class but Brown College and student services worked I would say very, very quickly it was almost impressive how fast the university worked to get all students on track and I wouldn't even say it was like a week I would say it was like more of like two or three days and all students sometimes hours sometimes hours, there you go they got us on track on the digital campus really quickly our whole digital campus is backed by a cloud-based system called Moodle so every student is on Moodle and you can communicate with your lecturers through Moodle in like a separate chat and then all the documents, all the materials all the resources are uploaded onto Moodle but what was done for us was very impressive at least the lecturers obviously went through Moodle and they divided the course into like week one to like week 12 so for week one, everything was organized everything was explained all of the documents, handouts, exams, class exercises they were all in one place which was amazing because I mean, just from a study point of view if you're struggling with a specific topic you just go on to Moodle you look which week the topic is in and all the information you could ever want is there and then just in addition to the digital campus Prague College also gives you access when you first become a student to a digital library so you can literally log on to the digital library search for a book and there's thousands and thousands of books they even have papers and academic papers and stuff that you can use and then all you do is you click on the PDF and there you go you got thousands of books which are readily available but I must be honest I personally don't use the digital library a lot because our lecturers really guide us very well so we're assisted on a different level if we're writing a paper about management accounting or rather if you're writing a paper about financial accounting you are already given a list of regulations because financial accounting is governed by something called IFRS which is its regulations for how you prepare accounts and those regulations don't change it's a standardized regulation worldwide so you get given this big stack of regulations and that's where all of your academic references will come from that's the subject matter that's what you're learning so I think that was really impressive for me so I don't use the digital library too much but it definitely works and then just as far as how a student's accessing it when they're all over the world so we have classes on Zoom which take place a Prague time generally between, I would say every student has classes at different times but my classes are from about 11 o'clock in the morning to I would say maybe 5 or 6 p.m. in the evening and then what happens is when you're in the class the class is recorded and it's posted on Moodle again so Kaho for example who's in Japan she can't always attend class yeah I have time difference for I think now several hours so especially one class that is like a static stack now I think like that class will be in I think from 1 a.m. here so like it's gonna be finished by like 3 a.m. like that would like destroy my life you know like lifetime something so like I asked a teacher like can I take classes all on the recorded class and they totally understand my situation and if I have a creation like like for sure I have something that I don't understand because like they're so difficult and I cannot ask like in time when teacher explained the things so if I have a creation and if I can understand even by email like written by the luxury we can take you know Zoom session individually and like then I can I don't have any problem like just because of the online or just because of the time differences that's for me amazing yeah and then just as far as international management goes there's international management is also unique one of the things I didn't like and I also you know was a bit upset about was that I missed out on the ethics and corporate law class so I think the international management students are very privileged to have that class so those are the differences if you're taking international management you still take financial and management accounting but you are less focused on finances and accounting whereas Kaho and myself are driven purely on accounting statistics that you know they really focus us in that direction but if you're an international management student they encourage you to think a bit more broadly I would say and essentially you're going into management you're not going into finance so the skills that you learn are also a little bit different