3:14 PM
@Malavika hi, sorry not give you any useful information.
@Malavika I actually have experienced a long struggle for a place to go and know the desperation which can arise therein.
@Malavika I had the feeling earlier this year that everyone in this world competes for survival - those who would smile are those who win a post, and if they lose the post, they can't smile anymore.
@Malavika not yet, I still have some issues.
@Malavika I will go to but I still have to deal with something before going.
I am in a wasteland without anybody to discuss related issues.
that's the result of not holding a position.
@Malavika I got a position as a teaching assistant in a university half a year after graduation, then after a semester I quit it. Then after several months I got a position as a research assistant in a research institute.
@Malavika but none of these positions really interest me. what I really want is to do PhD.
@Malavika no, I have long quit it.
actually I have encountered a lot of Indian PhD students when I was a research assistant.
I mean Indians coming here to do PhD.
actually PhD students here are not generally well paid.
@Malavika mainland China government probably pays PhD students better than island China government.
I guess our government doesn't encourage research that much.
I don't quite understand how our government spends its money because I have never concerned about politics.
but I don't see a good place to do PhD here.
I have never applied for any of these.
England is not easy to go to study.
UK doesn't offer scholarships to foreign students easily.
most of UK PhD programs preserve scholarships to their own students.
I have not tried to apply for even once in UK.
so don't know if UK admit foreign students easily.
but most UK PhD programs only offer scholarships to EU students.
I do found there are few PhD programs in UK offering scholarships no matter where the applicants come from earlier this year, but I didn't try.
because I see they require something annoying.
they require the recommendation letters to be signed by the writers and use particular envelope.
that means I have to go to my alma mater to meet those professors.
other programs I applied for accept sending recommendation letters by email.
first, my alma mater is far away and I don't want to bother those professors, so I gave up applying FOR that program in UK.
Also, all UK programs require some kind of English proficiency certificate.