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The Pacific and Atlantic coasts are home to some of North America’s most famous universities — but

which is right for you? Josie Gurney-Read reports

WESTVERSUSEAST

When British sixth-formers think of American universities, they probably picture Princeton, Yale or Harvard — all Doric columns, green lawns and falling leaves. In terms of research rankings and alumni success, these colleges are recognised as being among the best in the world, and they’re welcoming more UK students every year.

But while Harvard and Yale remain top US destinations for British school-leavers, this isn’t the whole story. Move 2,600 miles to the other side of the country and you’ll find West Coast universities are more than pulling their weight. The University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) are particularly popular for STEM subjects, with graduates keen to take advantage of the massive wealth generated by Silicon Valley and start-ups.

Picking a US college isn’t a decision to be taken lightly — you’ll be travelling between 3,000 and 5,000 miles and paying significantly more for a degree than you would at some other institutions, so you need to think carefully before committing.

How do you decide where’s best for you, and is there any real difference between universities on the Atlantic and those on the Pacific coasts?

EAST COASTIt’s almost impossible to talk about East Coast universities without mentioning the Ivy League, a label first applied in the Thirties. Made up of some of America’s oldest and most prestigious education institutions, it comprises Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell. The University of Pennsylvania and Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University also have enviable international reputations for research.

Competition for places at these elite colleges is fierce, with acceptance rates averaging just 10 per cent. Tuition fees also tend to be high, with universities typically charging between £22,000 and £28,000 a year. However, many also offer generous bursaries for those unable

to pay their own fees, plus cost of living expenses and flights.

While the pull of an Ivy League institution is undeniable, they only make up a tiny percentage of universities represented in the 15 states along the East Coast. In general, the region’s colleges are small and residential, with community and discussion central to the curriculum as well as life beyond the lecture hall.

A big draw for British students considering the East Coast is the availability of liberal-arts courses. While most US degrees offer students the chance to take classes in a wide varietyof subjects before choosing what to major in, liberal-arts colleges — the majority of which are situated on the East Coast — specialise in this field, with degrees generally lasting four years.

“Students are attracted to the idea of dabbling in various subjects before they decide whatto major in,” says James Turner, director of programmes and partnerships at the Sutton Trust, an educational charity that has strong links

with US universities. “The application process can be hard work, but more British school-leavers than ever are considering the move.”

WEST COASTIf you’re looking to specialise in a STEM subject at degree level, there’s nowhere better to be than the West Coast. In fact, California is regarded by some as one of the world’s leading regions for higher education in this area.

Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) all rank highly for engineering and technology — perhaps unsurprisingly, given their proximity to the tech mecca that is Silicon Valley. And of course, the entertainment industry continues to sprinkle its magic dust over the state.

In fact, several East Coast colleges are setting up campuses in the West to capitalise on the magnetism of these two industries. In March last year, Boston’s Emerson College opened an

LA campus offering courses with a focus on communications and performance, with a view to attracting those looking to break into Hollywood. And in 2012, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School opened a new West Coast campus aimed at would-be tech entrepreneurs.

However, while the West Coast undoubtedly boasts an impressive number of universities with a STEM focus, it’s worth remembering that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the East Coast regularly tops both subject-specific league tables and overall rankings.

The most important thing for British school-leavers considering a move to the US is to keep an open mind, says Jamie Dunn from the Fulbright Commission, which promotes educational exchanges between the UK and US.

“Narrow down your search to between six and eight institutions, and consider a range of factors, including the academic programmes, campus size and setting, cost and availability of funding and competitiveness of admission,” he advises.H

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but I didn’t want to commit myself without trying them first. In this respect, the US

system is really good.“ For Sami, the West Coast’s

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to experience something completely different from what I’d been used to at home,” he explains. “I absolutely love it here — I enjoy being outdoors and take every opportunity to go rock climbing and hiking.

I try to steer clear of fellow Brits abroad and have done my best to make friends with the locals,

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First-year undergraduate Francesca Edwards is studying

liberal arts at Bennington College, Vermont

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drew me to US degrees,” says Edwards, who made the move with the support of the Sutton Trust’s US Programme, which

encourages pupils from low- to middle-income families

to apply to US universities.“I applied to colleges across

the country and was open-minded about location because I wanted to base my

decision on academic merit. But Bennington stood out and I’m now studying topics I never thought I’d be interested in.”

The application process proved to be a bit of a culture

shock but Edwards embraced it. “It’s very different to Ucas. Each college has its own

requirements and you may have to write different essays for each place you apply to, but this gives you a great

opportunity to tell the college more about yourself and what

you’re passionate about.”

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Your future mapped outAlthough it is the hub, Scotland is not the only location for UK oil and gas jobs. Adam Ramsayseeks out exciting prospects across the country

Look at a map of the UK showing the location of every oil and gas company, and you’ll see a large concentration on Scotland’s north-east coast, around Aberdeen. Europe’s so-called oil and gas capital benefits from its proximity to the North Sea fields. Nearly half of the 340,000 jobs supported by the UK’s oil and gas industry are based in Scotland, with Glasgow and Edinburgh acting as hubs for companies that provide support services to the industry.

But that’s not the end of the story. Clusters of oil and gas companies exist all over the UK, according to the latest economic findings from Oil & Gas UK, voice of the offshore industry. While those who want to work in this industry may choose to head north of the border, there are still plenty of opportunities elsewhere in the country.

East Anglia is close to the key market of the southern North Sea, where Great Yarmouth is a regional supply base for energy businesses in the area, with two heliports and a major marine base. Most specialist companies that provide well-related services are located here.

Around 21 per cent of the UK’s oil and gas jobs are in London, where many companies have head offices. Oil- and gas-focused legal and banking firms are based there, as are many professionals in geophysics, along with seismic experts.

Other centres include the north-east, for fabrication work; Morecambe Bay, for firms engaged in gas production; and Dorset, where there is a small hub of companies supporting land rigs in the south of England. Here is a selection of UK companies with job opportunities in each of the major hot spots.

Global prospects Saudi Arabia Ghawar, an oil field owned by Saudi Aramco, is thought to have more than 100 billion barrels of recoverable oil. “It has already produced 60 billion barrels over the past 60 years,” says John Roberts of global job site Oil and Gas Jobsearch. “The Saudis say Ghawar is still going strong, producing 4.5 million barrels per day, with the capacity to do five million if needed.” Australia Gorgon is a natural gas project in Western Australia involving the development of the Greater Gorgon gas fields, subsea gas-gathering infrastructure and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island. Once fully developed, it will become Australia’s fourth LNG export development. Norway The Aldous-Avaldsnes (since renamed Johan Sverdrup) prospect in the North Sea was the world’s largest offshore find in 2011. “The discovery may hold a combined 2.2 to 2.8 billion barrels of resources,” says Roberts. “This follows the Havis

prospect, which may hold 200 to 300 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent — a mix of oil and natural gas.” Canada The Alberta oil-sand deposits contain at least 85 per cent of the world’s reserves of natural bitumen. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is forecasting CS|20 billion investment in oil-sand projects in 2012, up from S|17 billion in 2010. Brazil It is estimated that the volume of oil in the Parque das Baleias pre-salt field, including the reservoirs located above and below the salt layer, already adds up to some 3.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Production is expected to start next year.

Dana Petroleum A British oil and gas company with licences for exploration and production across Europe and Africa.Employees 500RolesEngineers, geoscientists, commercial managers and project specialists.Entry routes The company offers apprenticeships in areas including mechanical and electrical engineering. There are also graduate engineering

and commercial graduate development schemes for people from engineering, surveying, business and HSEQ (health, safety, environment and quality) backgrounds.Insider view Scott Robertson, UK producing assets manager, leads a team that generates 45,000 barrels of crude oil a day. “With its diverse range of oil- and gas-producing assets, developing projects and large exploration

acreage, Dana offers a bright future,” he says. “Joining the company now offers a chance to get in early, demonstrate ability and access some great career opportunities.”Recruitment In the past two months more than 20 new employees have joined the company, which plans to invest over US$5 billion to more than double in size within five years.www.dana-petroleum.com

Fraser Offshore A well-engineering company that provides a full design-and-drill service for offshore oil and gas wells. Employees 40Roles Engineering positions include drilling engineers and supervisors, well services, well site engineers, contracts and drilling materials coordinators. On the commercial side are business support managers, HR managers, financial controllers and specialists.

Entry routes Degree-level or between three and 10 years’ industry experience required, depending on the seniority of the role, for all engineering personnel. Fraser has training schemes in place for commercial and drilling engineer graduate trainees. Insider view “At the moment there are many different roles to fill and a shortage of skills,” says Paul Collins, commercial associate, who graduated with a law degree

from Anglia Ruskin University and joined Fraser Offshore in July 2010. “When you’re studying law at university you’re aware of the energy sector but you may not realise the scope of the exciting opportunities it offers.”Recruitment Graduate recruitment for this year closed at the end of January, but the company is keen to receive direct applications from good candidates.www.fraseroffshore.com

Hannon Westwood A market intelligence firm for the upstream oil and gas industry, covering north-west Europe and working with companies at board level, as well as in exploration and business development.Employees 25Roles Geoscientists, engineers, lawyers, IT specialists, geographers and GIS (mapping) specialists.

Entry routes Has links with the University of Aberdeen, having developed a module for its four-year geoscience degree. Students research commercially oriented topics for dissertations using Hannon Westwood’s source material, and may be able to develop their research with the firm.Insider view “A more hi-tech approach over the past eight years has created

new roles for IT specialists, working on interactive databases and information delivery,” says technical director Andrew Vinall. “Now we have a mix of experience, with younger people employed in areas such as IT, geography and engineering.”Recruitment The company is expanding and looking to increase its graduate entry.www.hannonwestwood.com

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resources, economics, trading and commercial.Entry routes Every year BG Group’s International Graduate Development Programme takes on around 100 graduates, who may be based in countries such as Australia, the US, Brazil and China. It also has a summer internship in well engineering and operations.Insider view “The graduate scheme is set up to find and

develop technical experts and future leaders for the company,” says graduate recruitment manager Lucy Richardson. “Over two years graduates get to develop their expertise globally, with at least one overseas placement.”Recruitment The 2013 intake will begin this autumn, with applications to join the programme generally open from September to January.www.bg-group.com

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THOUSANDS more GPs are to be recruited to the National Health Service to ensure that patients can be treated seven days a week, David Cameron will announce today.

In his first major speech since winning the general election, the Prime Minister will set out his plans to transform how hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are run.

Mr Cameron will express his “shock” at the death rates in hospitals at week-ends compared with weekdays and point out that the largest numbers of seriously ill patients arrive when NHS staffing is at its lowest.

He will call for a change in the way doctors and nurses work to make sure that emergency departments and GP sur-geries are staffed around the clock, seven days a week.

Placing the health service at the heart of his new Government’s agenda, Mr Cameron will declare that he wants to make good on a plan to make Britain “become the first country in the world to deliver a truly seven-day NHS”.

Part of the plan is the recruitment of many more family doctors, he will say. During the election campaign, the Con-servatives committed to recruiting 5,000 extra GPs between now and 2020.

Downing Street sources said that hav-ing secured a parliamentary majority, they now expected NHS England to set out the detail in coming months of how it will deliver on the plan.

By the end of this year, 18 million peo-ple will be able to access GPs’ surgeries at evenings and weekends. But the Prime Minister will say he wants that number to increase.

Mr Cameron will also promise to fulfil

his campaign pledge to increase NHS spending by £8billion a year.

However, he will come under pressure to say how he is going to raise that money and to set out how long it will take to recruit extra doctors.

The speech marks the Prime Minister’s first significant intervention since his surprise election majority 10 days ago.

The Conservatives are keen to move quickly in the months after their victory to establish their agenda while the other parties — in particular Labour — are in disarray.

A Downing Street source said: “We are a new Government, we want to hit the ground running. Labour is slightly dis-tracted by their internal divisions, the next leader and whether the unions will be in charge.”

This week, Mr Cameron is also expected to speak in public about the European Union, immigrants and welfare as he seeks to address some of the big issues facing his premiership ahead of next week’s Queen’s Speech.

Describing the health service as the embodiment of “One Nation” Tory poli-tics, he will reassure the public that it is “safe in our hands” for every generation.

He will say the Government will “trans-form” services across the country, with more GPs, faster access to new drugs and treatments and a greater focus on mental health and healthy living.

It is a “shocking fact” that death rates for patients who arrive at hospital on a Sunday are up to 16 per cent higher than on a Wednesday, he will say.

“I believe that together — by sticking to the plan — we can become the first coun-try in the world to deliver a truly seven-day NHS,” he will say. “And we must do so to protect and preserve the values of Continued on Page 2

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LABOUR’S biggest trade-union donor could sever its links with the party unless it picks the “correct leader” who will pursue Left-wing policies.

Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, the super-union, threatened to pull millions of pounds from the crisis-hit party unless it demonstrated that it would be the “voice of organised labour” and swings to the Left.

His intervention came as Jon Cruddas, the author of Ed Miliband’s doomed manifesto, said the party faced its gravest crisis since the First World War.

He warned that the party had no automatic right to exist, and called for an independent English Labour Party to win back disaffected voters from the Tories and Ukip.

Yesterday, Andy Burnham, the former health secretary praised by Mr McCluskey, emerged as the leadership election front runner after winning the backing of veteran Blairites and Rachel Reeves, a rising star of the 2010 intake.

Leadership contenders queued up to denounce Mr Miliband’s election platform in a “bonfire of the policies”. Front runners said they supported David Cameron’s EU referendum, criticised the mansion tax and attacked Gordon Brown’s pre-crisis deficit, which had been defended by Mr Miliband.

Labour has grown increasingly reliant on Unite’s millions as private donors shunned the party. Nearly two-thirds of its MPs have ties to the union, up from half before the election, following a drive to secure safe seats by Unite officers.

Mr McCluskey said Labour’s next leader must “enthuse” him by demonstrating “they are the voice of ordinary working people” or else the historic ties could be cut.

“It is the challenge of the Labour Party to demonstrate that they are the voice of ordinary working people, that they are the voice of organised labour. If they do that in a way that enthuses us, I don’t believe that the mountain that is ahead of us is unclimbable.

“If they don’t, [if] they inject more disillusionment, the pressure will grow from our members to rethink.”

Asked whether the leadership election was a “moment of divorce”, he said: “It’s essential that the correct leader emerges, and that there’s a genuine debate about the direction we are going in.” Labour

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HOUSE prices are forecast to rise in the wake of the Conservative election victory as the market reignites, a report suggests today.

Pre-election jitters had weighed

Cate Blanchett wears a voluminous blue gown at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Carol, in which she plays a married woman in 1950s New York who has a lesbian affair. The film has been warmly received by critics Review: Page 23

ISLAMIC State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) sealed its capture of the major city of Ramadi yesterday after a dramatic pullout by Iraqi forces.

Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, urged government forces to prevent Isil from making further gains, saying they would have air cover and Shia militia reinforce-ments. The city was captured after a bloody battle that left 500 dead.

The effective loss of the capital of Anbar, Iraq’s largest province, marked one of Baghdad’s worst setbacks since it began a nation-wide offensive last year to reclaim

territory lost to the jihadists in June 2014.

Isil said in an internet post that it now fully controlled Ramadi, after a local official admitted the opera-tions command centre in the city had fallen. “God has enabled the soldiers of the caliphate to cleanse all of Ramadi ... after storming the 8th brigade,” the message said.

Syrian troops have so far pre-vented Isil taking the heritage site of Palmyra.

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By Anita Singh

IF YOU think your partner never listens to you, it could be a simple question of timing.

A survey has found that men are most at ease and prepared to listen to their wives or girlfriends at 8.15pm, with mornings best avoided. Women are happiest to engage in conversation at 8.20am, which could explain why many marital discussions end in discord.

Men become most annoyed when a partner attempts conversa-tion while they are watching a film

or playing a video game, and only eight per cent state they will con-centrate on a partner’s entreaties while watching football on televi-sion. Some 39 per cent said they would happily talk while driving.

The research, by Asda, also found that “we need to talk” is the most feared opening line for men, while women dislike the question: “Is everything OK?”

One in three men admitted they had unwittingly agreed to errands, shopping trips and visits to the in-laws because they had not been paying attention to the question.

on people’s minds, the report by the property website Rightmove states, and the average asking price for a new home on the market dropped by 0.1 per cent at the start of May compared to a 2.1 per cent rise in the same month last year.

Uncertainty over the outcome, exacerbated by Labour’s threat of a mansion tax on homes worth more than £2million and tighter controls on landlords, knocked £242 off asking prices, it stated.

Now, David Cameron’s unex-pected win has “released the brakes on buyer confidence and

activity” and Rightmove expects the housing market to echo the activity after the 2010 general elec-tion, when the number of new properties for sale increased 17 per cent in three months.

The national average asking price had risen to an all-time high of £286,133 in April. However, Rightmove warned uncertainty was still ahead, with the forthcoming EU membership referendum, the possibility of stricter lending crite-ria and a rise in interest rates.

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DAVID CAMERON today promises to cut income tax for married couples as part of a plan to win back disillusioned Tory voters ahead of the general elec-tion.

In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph on the eve of the cam-paign, the Prime Minister says he will work to regain the trust of traditional Conservatives who have lost faith in the party since 2010.

He announces his plan to “expand” the new married couples’ tax allowance, which comes into force next month, so that families can benefit from a more generous scheme after the election.

The reform is designed to appeal to the party’s disgruntled grassroots, as well as stay-at-home mothers, and the Prime Minister says he believes it will prove “very popular”.

Speaking from his study inside No10, the Prime Minister fires the starting gun for the frantic weeks of the full-time campaign, which officially begins when Parliament is dissolved at midnight tonight.

In the interview, the Conservative leader:ÞRenews his vow to cut immigration to a target of below 100,000 a year, telling voters angry at his failure to meet the goal so far: “I hear you, I hear your con-cern, I get your message.”ÞPledges to save the Army from further cuts after the election, by ruling out reductions in reservists as well as regu-lar soldiers.ÞAnnounces that the total value of life-time savings that the over-55s will be able to take out of their pension pots after next week’s reform comes to £140billion, the equivalent of £25,000 per person.

In the interview, he describes his per-sonal anguish at taking life-and-death decisions involving British troops or responding when hostages have been

murdered by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He declares that he wants the terrorist known as “Jihadi John” to be hunted down and does not mind whether he is captured or killed: “I would like him out of action.”

Mr Cameron also rejects criticism of his personal style and his reputation for “chillaxing”, saying he usually starts work before 6am at his kitchen table. “I work bloody hard,” he says.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister was heckled by a party member while deliv-ering a speech at the Tory spring confer-ence in Manchester. Mike Howson, 59, a party member from Staffordshire, said Mr Cameron had “betrayed this country on Europe and immigration”.

Mr Howson said he had switched his allegiance to the UK Independence Party and said many grassroots members felt

similarly angry and let down by the actions of the Conservatives in govern-ment.

In his interview, conducted on Friday, Mr Cameron concedes that he has work to do to regain lost support

“I accept I have a task in the next 41 days to win back people who are instinc-tively Conservative, who have strong Conservative values and some of them have drifted off to other parties,” he says. “I need to win them back.”

He says he wants to extend the mar-riage allowance, a tax break that comes into force for basic-rate taxpayers in April. Under current rules it will save couples up to an extra £212 a year when they transfer a portion of their own tax-free income allowance to their higher-earning husband or wife.

However, many Tory MPs regard the bonus as relatively small, and want it to be extended so that higher-rate taxpay-ers earning more than £42,385 a year can also benefit. Mr Cameron is deter-mined to go further with the reform if he wins the election on May 7.

“I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples’ tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular,” he says.

Mr Cameron says pension changes coming into force on April 6 will enable the over-55s to withdraw savings worth on average £25,000 each, totalling £140billion. The reform, first announced in last year’s Budget, will make Britain “a country where it pays to save”.

He declares that his guiding principle for a second term will be to cut taxes and boost savings so that more people who work hard can “live the good life”.

After five years of power-sharing with Nick Clegg, the Prime Minister attacks the Liberal Democrats and rejects the idea of another coalition. He says the lowest point of the past five years of gov-ernment came when Mr Clegg “ratted” on a deal to redraw parliamentary con-stituency boundaries, which would have boosted the Tories’ electoral hopes.

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THE PILOT who flew a plane into a mountain killing 150 peo-ple was being treated for prob-lems with his eyesight that could have threatened his career, it was disclosed yesterday.

Andreas Lubitz, 27, is said to have visited a hospital eye clinic twice in the past month over “vision problems”.

Investigators will be examin-ing the theory that severe stress – caused by a fear he might lose his job due to failing eyesight – may have driven Lubitz to com-mit suicide by flying an Airbus A320 into the side of a mountain

in the French Alps on Tuesday. Lubitz, who also suffered psy-chiatric problems, had sought treatment at Düsseldorf Univer-sity Hospital for his eyesight in February and again on March 10, it was claimed yesterday. It is also possible that the eye condi-tion was triggered by stress.

He had been given a doctor’s note that had excused him from working, but instead of present-ing it to his employers, Lubitz had torn it up and thrown it in the bin at his flat in Düsseldorf.

It was disclosed yesterday that Lubitz’s parents, Guenter and Ursula, had told of their devasta-tion over his actions. Bernard Bartolini, mayor of a town near

the crash site, said he had spo-ken to Guenter. “He is carrying on his back the entire weight of the drama. He is a man whose life has broken down,” said Mr Bartolini.

The father of one of the Brit-ish victims said yesterday that “if there was a motive or a rea-son for the act we don’t want to hear it”. Phillip Bramley, whose son Paul, 28, died in the disaster, warned airlines to do more to look after their pilots.

He said: “I believe the airlines should be more transparent and their pilots looked after properly. We put our lives and our chil-dren’s lives in their hands.”News Review: Pages 18 & 19

HIS SEARING pace made him a superstar but Michael Owen was a breathless bystander yesterday when he enjoyed one of his greatest ever moments in sport.

The former footballer watched his horse Brown Panther win the $1million (£670,000) Dubai Gold Cup, then delightedly told of his excitement. “It’s an amazing day. I felt I ran the last furlong with him. He’s been a superstar from day one,” said Owen who breeds racehorses in Cheshire and co-owns Brown Panther.

Owen also praised trainer Tom Dascombe and jockey Richard Kingscote. “Really, all I do is write the cheque,” he said.Sport: S14

DOCTOR, DOCTOR, my stomach gurgles when I am hungry.

It might seem like a joke but this complaint is among a host of odd concerns that patients are, increasingly, taking to GPs. Others wanted advice on why dancing in high heels hurt their feet, or asked for lavatory paper on prescription, a report found.Full report: Page 17

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