Category: Oceania

Language Overview Official language is English. Among the immigrants there are minorities who have retained their mother tongue; different languages ​​are spoken by the Australian aborigines. Public Holidays 01/01/2022 New Year 01/26/2022 Australia Day 04/15/2022 Good Friday 04/16/2022 holy saturday 04/18/2022 easter monday 04/25/2022 ANZAC Day 06/14/2022 Celebrations for the Queen’s birthday 12/25/2022 Christmas 12/26/2022 […]

The management of irregular immigration Australia recognizes the right to asylum and is a signatory to the Convention on the Status of Refugees. However, current government policy reveals a significant gap between the country’s human rights obligations and the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. In fact, Canberra has adopted one of the most restrictive […]

The application process for the semester abroad in Australia is made really easy by communicating via MicroEDU and everything worked wonderfully for me. The forms that are required are provided by MicroEDU, and these forms are also forwarded to the foreign university, which means that the application can be confirmed very quickly and answered positively. […]

Preparation In order to prepare well for a semester abroad at Griffith University, you should first read a few testimonials – which I unfortunately couldn’t manage due to my time pressure. For semester 2 you should first pack thicker clothes, as the temperatures can drop significantly at sunset. It is enough to pack one or […]

Welcome to Paradise My preparations started 1 year in advance because my university is very planning-oriented. So I had a lot of time to create packing lists with yes and maybe things and to communicate with MicroEDU (thank you again, it was very helpful, always quick and easy). I hope my tips help you. The […]

  Since I’ve done a total of four weekend trips and a few day trips, I spent a lot of time at university when I wasn’t out and about. I made many local friends who were also international students and who did it just like me. So we mostly all spent our everyday life at […]

My name is Ines and I spent a semester abroad at Griffith University Gold Coast in Australia from February to July 2017. Here in Germany I am studying for a master’s degree in Public Health. At Griffith University, I took an economics course in addition to public health courses. Why a semester abroad in Australia? […]

Hey mates, yes there we go! I finished my semester abroad at Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus) in Surfers Paradise a few weeks ago and am still enjoying the last few days I have Jin this wonderful country please follow me if I haven’t structured the whole thing very strictly… just write freely off the […]

My semester in Paradise! I spent my semester abroad at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus and I can say it was absolutely the right decision !! I’ve been back here in Germany for some time now, but sometimes I still want to turn back time to relive the DownUnder time. A tip in advance: Just […]

It will be very difficult to summarize this experience in just a few lines. The best recommendation I can give is to have this experience yourself. No matter how this report may sound like below, I can say with certainty that it was the best year of my life and that I definitely don’t want […]

“The semester abroad at Griffith University on the Gold Coast Campus was a great experience in every respect and one of the best months of my life! You can expect a super structured, top modern university on a large campus, a wide range of travel options, and a wonderfully beautiful environment on the Gold Coast […]

Meike goes Australia – my semester abroad on the Gold Coast Once to Australia: I made this dream come true with the semester abroad. And I can really say that a semester abroad is really very worthwhile. You not only get to know another culture, other countries and people, but above all you learn something […]

After traveling the continent of America for some time after graduating from high school, I got the wanderlust and it was clear to me that I would like to spend a semester abroad somewhere in the world during my studies. Since semesters abroad are compulsory at my German university, we were offered many lectures by […]

When I was faced with the decision where to spend my semester abroad, I didn’t even know where to go. At an information event organized by college-contact.com at our university in Germany, I quickly realized that I wanted to go to Australia. Now that I had a contact address, I just turned to college-contact.com and […]

Preparation for the stay abroad I started preparing about nine months in advance. The support from Collage Contact was particularly helpful, who advised me very well and took over the entire organization with the university in Australia. You were the go-between between Griffith University and me, and the entire application process was through Collage Contact. […]

From October 11, 2018 to February 26, 2019, I was in beautiful Australia and completed a Study Abroad semester at Griffith University in Gold Coast, where I took courses for the Bachelor of Business. There are several reasons why I decided to study abroad in Australia. On the one hand, I wanted to improve my […]

After I had decided to do a semester abroad, I made the decision relatively quickly to do so in Australia. I chose Griffith University on the Gold Coast because a warm climate was very important to me and the description of the university sounded very appealing. MicroEDU was a great help in the application process, […]

Application process The application process was very simple and straightforward. All the necessary documents and forms were submitted via MicroEDU and within a few weeks Griffith University received the acceptance. Studies & courses Studying at Griffith University is quite different from the usual course at Eufh. Tests, mid-exams, assignments, presentations and the like were due […]

How do I find an apartment – from Germany or locally? Before I could throw myself into student life, however, a few organizational points had to be clarified, such as the search for an apartment. There are two major options for this. If you have a more spontaneous disposition, you can find out about possible […]

It’s going to Australia! In the summer of last year the time had finally come: as a student of the “International Culture and Management” course at the European Management School in Mainz (EMS), after the 4th semester and the compulsory internship, I was finally due for my semester abroad, which I did at Gold Coast […]

Would you like to do a semester abroad, but you are not yet sure where to go? Unfortunately, I cannot make this decision for you, but I can tell you about my semester abroad in Australia and thus maybe make your decision a little easier. At the beginning of April I decided to go to […]

I was enrolled at Griffith University on the Gold Coast for one semester (semester 2/2008). The semester was a complete success from day one. I lived in Griffith University Village. The advantage here, of course, is that it is right on campus. You just walk over a bridge and then you are almost in your […]

Griffith University Gold Coast and Courses: First of all, I would definitely recommend you to take the orientation trip to Byron Bay. Here you get to know a lot of other exchange students and have the opportunity to take part in many activities such as surfing and kayaking with dolphins. In general, it can also […]

Now I am for about a month back in Germany after I have a few wonderful months in beautiful Australia was allowed to spend. Since the experience reports were of great help to me in my decision about which country and which university should be the right choice for my semester abroad, I hope that […]

Leisure Depending on what the schedule allows, you have no lectures between 3-5 days a week and therefore the best time to discover the area. Unfortunately, I was unlucky enough to always have an exam, presentation or important lecture on the days when my fellow students drove away. Depending on how much you value your […]

It is better not to wait too long to apply for a visa, as it has already happened that for some stupid reasons it was delayed. Better to be on the safe side. In addition, I did not apply for the student visa for the visaI decided, but took the Work & Travel Visa, as […]