Buddy Scheme
For those of you who haven’t yet heard about the Buddy Scheme, World@Warwick matches home students with Exchange/Erasmus Students from the same academic department as a chance to offer support to incoming international students.
For home students the Buddy Scheme is a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, especially people from a different cultural background. Your participation will be invaluable in helping to welcome international students and making them feel at home, and possibly helping students improve their English.
For Exchange/Erasmus students the Buddy Scheme is an invaluable chance to meet English/home students and to share your international culture. The Buddy Scheme will offer you support in your course but also allow you to receive practical advice and help from home students for settling in.
Could you please send an email to the following address:
su666@warwicksu.com, entitled ‘Buddy Scheme’, providing the following details:
· For Home students: Full name, state whether you are a home or Exchange/Erasmus student, Academic Department, Preferred language of exchange student, whether you are willing to have more than one buddy, contact email.
· For International Students: Full name, Nationality, state whether you are a home or Exchange/Erasmus student, Academic Department, contact email.
Your emails will then be passed on to your buddies after which it is up to you to make contact with each other as soon as possible. You should receive these details within two weeks after you have applied. Obviously you can email us if you have any questions or issues relating to the buddy scheme.
PLEASE NOTE: The official deadline for applying has now passed, however there is a small chance that we might be able to find you a buddy particularly if you are an international/exchange/erasmus student - if this applies to you, please send us the above details and we will try to find you a buddy.
If you are a home student and missed out this year, make sure apply early next year to be guaranteed a buddy!