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University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland is the 5th oldest of all UK universities. It has 14,000 students. With a history of academic excellency of more than 500 years, some of it is degree programs have been rated the best both in Scotland and in all UK universities. Some of the frequent courses in Aberdeen are Medicine, Education, Divinity and Law and Engineering. Here each student has an academic consultant to provide guidance; Aberdeen has received special acknowledgement for the teacher- student relationship.

Courses offered:

The University of Aberdeen has three colleges-

College of Arts and Social Sciences includes-

University of Aberdeen Business School

School of Divinity, History and Philosophy

School of Education

School of Language & Literature

School of Law

School of Social Science

Graduate School

College of Life Sciences and Medicine includes-

School of Biological Sciences

School of Medical Sciences

School of Medicine & Dentistry

School of Psychology

College of Physical Sciences also includes exploration centres-

School of Engineering

School of Geosciences containing departments of geography and environs and geology and petroleum

School of Natural and Computer Sciences containing departments of physics, chemistry, mathematics, technology and computing

Research Centres containing Institutes for Coastal science and management, Energy Technologies and Transport and Rural Research

Admission Process:

For Undergraduate courses- applicants need to apply through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admission Services). Fee charged for one course is £11 and for more than one it is £21. Applications are accepted from September 2010 for academic year 2011. The closing date is 15th January though apps may be considered till June subject to availability of seats.

Applicants for Dental, Veterinary Science/ Medicine need to take CAT admittance test. Closing date is 15th October, 2010.

For Postgraduate courses – applicants may either employ online or download the forms.

International students who wish to study in UK, may submit their apps from September 2010 to end of June 2011 for academic year 2011. They likewise need to submit proof of proficiency in English.

For Primary and Secondary Education Programmes – apps may be made either online or through forms available at Graduate Teacher Training Registry.

Scholarships and Bursaries: Some of the grants offered are-

Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship – minimum £1000 per year for academic excellence, financial support

Jim Duncan Scholarship for undergraduates

University of Aberdeen Alumni Discount Scheme

Funding for overseas students

Accommodation:

Aberdeen has on campus halls of residence. All freshers are guaranteed accommodation subject to acceptance of application. All rooms have access to wireless internet connection.

Jobs and Placement Assistance:

University of Aberdeen offers a point based scheme beneath ‘Working in Scotland Scheme’ where global students may work up to 2 years after completion of the degree. Students are likewise helped in getting placements in top companies. As galore as 97% students get started work directly after graduation.

Aberdeen also has ‘Joblink’, a student help system to aid in finding part-time jobs and offer employment counsel for the duration of study years.

Other facilities:

Aberdeen’s library has a collection of over a million books and another quarter of a million of historic and ancient books and manuscripts.

A sports venue consisting of an indoor hall housing 9 courts, full size football pitch, fitness suites, squash courts and a lab for performance in sports.

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When Truly Plaice’s mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would in the end be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother’s death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his growingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated–Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of ceaseless abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers.

Serena Jane’s beauty proves to be her greatest benediction and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the emplacement of her fabled shadow book–containing mysterious mysteries for healing and darker powers–has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly’s biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to assert the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the fate of all Aberdeen from there on.

When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly’s brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one humane could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling–the capacity to heal sickness with herbs and naturopathic techniques–hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan’s family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that at long last break the Morgan family detached forever, but Truly’s reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibleness of love in unexpected places.

From Bookmarks MagazineA gothic, macabre tale involving revenge, redemption, folk medicine, and magic, The Little Giantgarnered plentiful praise from critics, who were perhaps astonished that the story of a gargantuan woman captivated them so thoroughly. Although the primary part, which focuses on the kinship among Truly and Serena Jane, holds elements of melodrama, it allows Baker to explore the contrast amidst all kinds of beauty and ugliness. Baker moves on to explore issues such as family, betrayal, love, and friendship (her attempts to tackle topics such as euthanasia, rape, and sexual orientation fall a little flat). A few critics also faulted Trudy’s unrealistic first-person but omniscient narration, but this was a minor complaint in a compelling, emotional, and intellectual novel from an author to watch.
Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC

From BooklistTruly is born into a life of suffering and tragedy. Her mother dies in childbirth, and her father is ill equipped to deal with either of his two daughters. Truly’s sister, Serena Jane, is the acknowledged town beauty, while Truly suffers from an impairment of normal physiological function that causes her to grow way beyond normal size. When their father also dies, the girls are split up, and their lives diverge and reconnect in ways neither could imagine. Woven into the story of the sisters is a more prominent story of women and the ways they are forced to navigate the world. Although primarily a straightforward story, the novel is infused with moments of magic realism. At times the town of Aberdeen, with it is stereotypical small-town prejudices and quirks, seems a little too familiar. Overall, though, the novel charms and will find a committed audience. –Marta Segal Block

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34 of 37 persons found the following review helpful.
“LOVE IS LOVE HOWEVER IT COMES….”
By Gail Cooke

Love, hate, forgiveness, revenge, mystery, witchcraft – all the constituents of a fine novel. When these parts become prose in the hands of Tiffany Baker the results are finer than fine.. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County is unforgettable in each way, not only as an extraordinarily well written novel but likewise as a story rich with meaning.

43 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
What were Gruen and Kallos thinking?
By A real pageturner
I read The Little Giant of Aberdeen County because it came with blurbs from Sara Gruen and Stephanie Kallos, both of whom have written books I admired. Well, Gruen and Kallos may be magnificent writers of fiction, but they’re apparently not so hot as judges of other writers’ fiction, because Little Giant doesn’t belong on the same shelf with Water for Elephants, Broken for You, and Sing Them Home.

For one thing, a lot of of the characters in Little Giant are closely cartoonishly unbelievable. I’m prepared to believe that a child who has the misfortune to be born with gigantism in a little town in upstate New York would be teased mercilessly by all the other children in the town, and that galore of the adults in the community would behave in an uncaring way toward her. But I find it hard to believe that almost all of the adults in the town — including the doctor, the schoolteacher, and the minister’s wife — would be so repulsed by the child’s aspect that they would be not just uncaring, but almost pathologically hostile to her.

For another thing, the book is gravely written, with breathtakingly banal observations when it comes to life (which the author seems to think are firstborn and profound) appearing on almost each page. The author’s most annoying stylistic tic is her tendency to make up exceedingly strained metaphors (or, as she would probably describe them, metaphors as strained as a weak teabag). By the time I got to “Truth is like a blunt hoe”, near the end of the book, I wished I had a blunt hoe to attack the book with. Where was the editor who could have nipped this metaphor-mania in the bud, like a nurseryman with a pair of secateurs? (Oh, no — now she’s got me doing it, too!)

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