WRITE ABOUT YOUR STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Thanks for taking the time to write about your student experience!
At Canada Law from Abroad, our aim is to provide free counselling to students to help ensure they are making an informed decision when it comes to their law studies and that they are set up in the best possible way to be successful during their degree and when returning to Canada to pursue their legal career. One of the biggest concerns that students have when they first come to us is about their prospects for networking and seeking employment when finishing their degree. As such, hearing directly from our past students can make a huge difference in someone else’s educational journey!
Entries received from international students or alumni of our UK universities between 1 Sept 2025, and 31 Aug 2026 will automatically be entered into our prize draw.
The submission needs to follow the instructions on this page. The entries need to be submitted through this form.
We have one £500 award available for Canadian submissions to Canada Law from Abroad or Across the Pond - Study in Britain.
Note: the prize draw will take place in September 2026 and winners will be notified at the time.
HOW WE USE STUDENT EXPERIENCES
We use student feedback to promote the Canada Law from Abroad service and our partner universities to prospective students. We will post this feedback on our website mainly, but it may also appear on social platforms, and in digital material, such as our university guide. As a subsidiary of our partner company, Across the Pond - Study in Britain Ltd, your submission may also be used within Across the Pond's materials or website as well.
We only publish your first name, the profile picture you’ve submitted as well as the university/course you attend(ed).
You can write as much or as little as you'd like and feedback from potential applicants show that they love reading about other students' experiences. Thank you for helping other students who are currently considering studying in the UK. Please make sure the information you share is relevant to future students. E.g. what student life was like during Covid-19 lockdown is not relevant. Mentions of Covid-19 will be removed before publishing as this will not be relevant to students in the future.
If you have graduated more recently and aren't yet working in the field, you may find your student experience to be fresher and easily conveyed. If you have been working for a while, either in the UK or Canada, our students would greatly appreciate hearing more about your journey post-degree.
NEED SOME TIPS ON WHAT TO SHARE?
Please make your own headlines throughout the text (and don't just use the below as your headlines). Divide your text into sections with titles that describe the content you are including in that section e.g. “Comfortable Accommodation”, “Exciting Nightlife", "Student life at X university" etc.
You can use the below topics to help inspire you when writing your text:
- Talk about studying in the UK and why you decided to study abroad
- Why you choose X university and how you find university life (campus, what facilities you use/like etc.)
- Tell us about your accommodation
- How was student life is different from life in your home country
- What you are studying and why - talk about your course and why you like it
- Tell us about the town/city and what you love about it
- What you do in your spare time, how you socialize, where your new friends are from etc.
- Anything else you'd have liked to know before you applied, started university or went to the UK
WRITE ABOUT YOUR ALUMNI EXPERIENCE
If you’re currently working in your field, and are writing about your alumni experience, you may find the below prompts more helpful:
- How was your transition from the UK to Canada? (Depending on where you are in the process, please share your experience with the NCA process, networking, articling etc.)
- How did your UK university experience prepare you for the transition?
- What kind of career focused activities did you get involved with in the UK? For example, were you part of any Law Society activity, mooting competitions, campus clinic work etc.?
- How do you think having a UK degree sets you apart from others?
- Did you volunteer/do any part-time work while in the UK?
- What are you currently doing?
- What recommendations do you have for students completing their law degree in the UK? Is there anything you would do differently in hindsight to better set yourself up for your future career?
- What is the top piece of advice you would give to a first-year law student in the UK?
PROFILE PICTURE
We would love it if you submitted a photo of yourself (please do not include other people), either in front of the university, in the city/town or just a headshot. It needs to be a picture that you or someone you know has taken to make sure we're allowed to publish it (copyright).
