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The Careers Adviser: How can I find the money to study dance? I find my career exhausting and would like to escape – any ideas?

Q. I left school after GCSEs to work and am now 19, but really wish I'd pursued my interest in dance. Is there any help with funding to study at dance schools? I couldn't raise the money any other way.

Cultural exchange: students will study the Lancaster University curriculum, but at the Goenka campus near Delhi

A new deal in India for Lancaster University

Westward ho is where the land was supposed to be bright, but Lancaster University sees the light shining from the East. Earlier this year, the university launched a new campus in India in partnership with a local provider of private education, the GD Goenka Group. The arrangement is part of a 21st-century strategy of overseas expansion intended to spread the Lancaster brand, diversify sources of income and broaden the horizons of faculty.