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Immerse Education Essay Competition 2022

• Deadline August 31, 2022

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Immerse Education opened their Essay Competition round for 2023 programmes. With this competition, participants like you get the chance to showcase your subject knowledge and essay writing skills, with the opportunity to win a full scholarship to one of their 2023 programmes in Oxford, Cambridge, London or Sydney.

The immerse education essay competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship, with runner-up prizes also awarded.

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• 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship, and the Runners Up will be awarded partial scholarships of up to 70% to study their chosen subject with Immerse.
• The number of runners-up will be determined by the number of entries received, and the quality of the work submitted. Usually, around 7% of entrants receive scholarship funding to attend an Immerse programme.

Eligibilities

Students of all nationalities who will be aged 13-18 during the summer of 2023.

Application Process

There is a specific list of topics for 13-15 years students and 16-18 years students. Check their website for the topics you can write about.

Essay specifications:

• Your answers should be no more than 500 words +/- 10% (excluding references, headings and title text)
• Your entry must consist of a single PDF document, double-spaced and written in Times New Roman, font size 11.
• Your entry should be anonymous. You should NOT include your name on your file upload or within the answer itself.
• Entries must be written in English. If English is not your first language, judges will take this into account and mark accordingly.
• Bibliographies and appendices should be included in the same document as your essay. Only one file will be sent to the judges.
• All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party.
• Essays should be submitted directly via the competition entry form. Essays received by email will not be considered.
• Only one entry is allowed per person.
• After finishing your essay, complete the form and submit your application.
• You should also check the GUIDE on official link to help you with your application.

Application Deadline: August 31, 2022

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Immerse Education Summer School Essay Competition 2022

Deadline: 31st August 2022 | Offering applicants the opportunity to win a 100% scholarship to participate in an Immerse summer program.

Are you a highly ambitious student interested in attending the Immerse Summer School in Oxford or Cambridge? This is an opportunity to showcase your academic skills through this essay competition.

What is the Immerse Education Essay Competition?

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject.

Who is it for?

Students of all nationalities who will be aged 13-18 during the Summer of 2023.

Topics for the Essay

A pre-set question relating to the applicant’s chosen subject.

To find the list of questions, fill up the form given on this page .

Awards and Prizes

• 1st Prize: 10 winners  will receive a  100% scholarship
• Runners Up  will be awarded partial scholarships of up to 70% to study their chosen subject with Immerse. The number of runners up will be determined by the number of entries received, and the quality of the work submitted.
• Usually around  7% of entrants  receive scholarship funding to attend an Immerse programme.

Timeline for the Essay Competition

• Competition Opens : March 16, 2022
• Competition Closes : August 31, 2022
• Results Announced : October 1, 2022
• Programme Dates : July-August 2023

Find out more and apply at the official link below:

. Apply before 31st August, 2022

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Immerse Education Essay Competition 2021: What makes a good Doctor?

Four highly motivated Grade 10 students spent a portion of their Christmas holiday writing submissions for the Immerse Education Essay Competition in the hope of winning a 100% scholarship to attend a summer course at Cambridge University in the UK.  The competition is a challenging one: entrants must pick one question from a list of eighteen controversial topics and have only 500 words to defend their answer.  Essays must be fully referenced with footnotes and bibliography.  While we all have our fingers crossed for their success, we are quite simply hugely proud of them for taking the initiative to enter this competition – well done!

Below are two entrants’ essays on this topic ordered alphabetically by name of author:

What makes a good doctor.

Being a medical professional is considered one of the noble and ancient vocations in society. However, considering the plurality of people who become doctors, there must be a plethora of ways to go about being a doctor. This raises the question – what makes a good doctor?

It appears to be universally agreed upon and that medical professionals must put the patients well-being before all else in a quest to minimise suffering. The Hippocratic oath is, despite its age, considered an ethical benchmark even today. It seems so ingrained in all our understanding that it is barely questioned by patients and doctors alike. So when people, be it doctors or patients, talk about ‘good doctors’, what do they actually expect to see from them? More often than not, one will hear the words ‘competence’ and ‘empathy’ being muttered. Although this may seem a bit simplistic, come to think of it, those concepts may well be more intertwined than meets the eye. A competent doctor arrives at a correct and timely diagnosis, initiates an adequate and effective treatment. Key to what patients and their relatives consider great consultations is that their respective concerns, ideas and expectations are addressed, respected and incorporated into the decision making. Empathy forms the missing link. It can allow for a more profound rapport to be established between doctors and patients, helping to obtain a more detailed medical history and aid diagnostics. Obedience to a certain treatment can be improved by tailoring it to a patient’s needs, which, in turn, will improve outcomes. Maintaining a patient centered approach will help decide upon an adequate treatment in the first place. It is safe to say that throughout all stages of the patient’s journey, the idea of empathy has the potential to make the difference between a doctor and a good doctor. Having said all this, it seems by no means easy to display empathy at all times. Increasing specialisation and ever more detailed knowledge and understanding of subspecialities causes ever steeper knowledge gradients to make communication between doctors and patients difficult. This in turn prevents medical professionals from being able to fully dedicate themselves to patients. The increasing availability of in part questionable information and data can both empower patients or destroy the doctor-patient relationship. Similarly, the uncontested status of doctors as ‘demigods in a white coat’ appears to slowly decrease, rendering them to be seen as service providers rather than allies at times. These are changes that affect multiple aspects of society. Therefore, I would conclude that a doctor, as a person and profession, is a reflection of society as a whole. Hence, apart from detailed knowledge and profound understanding of their scientific field, traits that make a good doctor are the same that make a good person and empathy is found at the very core of it. A good doctor is someone who goes above and beyond the call of duty to put the well-being of his or her peers above their own. Someone who, regardless of their own cultural background, political ideology and ethnic heritage, goes out of their way to understand their patients. Finally, someone who, when needed, even forgoes the very science they dedicate their lives to, in order to make a patient feel well. After all, doctors treat patients, not conditions.

Bibliography:

• Dr. med. B. Hibbeler, “Was ist ein ‘guter’ Arzt”, Ärzteblatt 51-52 (2011) 28th December 2020
• Saint George University. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor?”, 04.02.2018 [ https://www.sgu.edu/blog/medical/what-makes-a-good-doctor/ last accessed: 3rd January 2021]
• Harvard Blogs. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor? Can we measure it?”, 20.03.2014 [ https://blogs.sph.harvard.edu/ashish-jha/2014/03/20/what-makes-a-good-doctor-and-can-we-mea sure-it/ last accessed: 3rd january 2021]
• The Lancet. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor?”, 28.08.2010 [ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61317-7/fulltext#articleInfo rmation last accessed: 29th December 2020]
• Physicians Practice. M. Byington, “What are patients looking for in a doctor?”, 10.05.2017 [ https://www.physicianspractice.com/view/what-are-patients-looking-physician last accessed: 2nd January 2021]

A doctor is defined as a person who has been trained in medical science, whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured. According to this definition, what makes you a doctor is clear: the licences and certificates. However, the question of what makes a good doctor is much broader, and for this reason this essay will focus on the comparison between empathy, objectivity and technical competence in relation to the patients recovery and well-being. Firstly, objectivity helps doctors, to a certain extent, to be professionally distant from their patients and apply skills and knowledge rather than emotions to make judgements about treatment for an effective recovery. For example, a heart surgeon uses high amounts of skill during a surgery. When getting emotionally engaged with a patient, the physician can make a biased decision that might not be helpful towards recovery. Emotional detachment is helpful for the doctor too, as the involvement can be difficult to handle mentally. Nevertheless, professionals have stated that complete objectivity is not even possible to achieve and that physicians will always make decisions slightly based upon emotions, experiences and their view of right and wrong. However, people have argued that empathy should be desired rather than objectivity anyways. This consists of listening to a patient but also communicating in a way that can be understood. Medicine should be about treating a person rather than simply curing an illness, and should be taken with a more holistic approach, as our emotional side is what makes us differ from a computer. Whilst a machine might have the technical competence to recognize symptoms and cure the illness, we as humans should ensure that we cure the patient. Many patients want an understanding physician, as this gives them a sense of security. Studies have shown that when this is achieved, the recovery process has a higher chance of being effective. This is partially because up to 30% of all illnesses are somatization, where the mind is involved in the physical condition and only when we relieve the mind we can treat the illness. Moreover, when we look at the patients as people we can prevent further illnesses in the long term by treating more than just the symptoms. A doctor can be differentiated from a good doctor by the balanced coexistence of objectivity and empathy. Whilst the objective side of a person is needed in making effective decisions, the empathic side is what distinguishes between treating a condition and curing a person. However, this must be carefully balanced, for too much objectivity leads to being very distant and too much empathy leads to faulty decision making, both ultimately being harmful to a patient. How this is balanced, however, ranges based on which field you are in, as a cardiologist performs a different job than a family doctor. With this in mind, we should evaluate the contents of studying medicine and consider teaching the students how to reach their own balance, by letting them deal with patients at an early stage, as there is no blueprint to becoming a good doctor. Each individual must find a balance of their own, to make a positive impact on the field and to become the best doctor they can possibly be.

Maren S. Bibliography: “Doctor_1 Noun – Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation And Usage Notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary At Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.Com”, Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.Com , 2021 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/doctor_1 [accessed 21 December 2020] Hirsch, Elliot, “The Role Of Empathy In Medicine: A Medical Student’s Perspective”, Journal Of Ethics | American Medical Association , 2021 [accessed 20 December 2020] Ross, Donald, “The Objectivity Illusion In Medical Practice”, Association For Psychological Science – APS , 2021 https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-objectivity-illusion-in-medical-practice (accessed 22 December 2020)

“What Makes A Good Doctor, And Can We Measure It?”, An Ounce Of Evidence | Health Policy , 2021 <https://blogs.sph.harvard.edu/ashish-jha/2014/03/20/what-makes-a-good-doctor-and-can-we-measure-it/ (accessed 20 December 2020)

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Extra-curricular success at Immerse Education: Read the stories of 100% scholarship winners!

Immerse Education essay competition winners were awarded 100% scholarships to summer schools in Cambridge, Oxford, London and Sydney. The next round of free competition is open until 4th January 2023.

Back in 2021, 14-year-old Kornelia’s school in Poland invited her to take part in a competition hosted by Immerse Education. The rules were simple - write a 500 word essay, answering a subject-specific question set by the educational summer school company Immerse Education.

“I was so taken aback, I could not believe what I was seeing! On my way back from school I decided to open my emails, not expecting much in all honesty. Immerse’s name popped up and I stopped.”

Kornelia, quoted above, was one of ten students per year awarded a 100% fully-funded scholarship, and joined the Immerse Education programme in 2022.

When students are invited to take part in an essay competition, it can often feel as though they are putting a lot of effort in for something that may never happen. For scholarship winners like Kornelia, Pedro, Riya and Noor, this thought had also crossed their minds. It’s a lot of work, on top of school assignments, to make time to go through the process of writing a university-style essay.

Noor also won a 100% scholarship, attending the Law Academic Insights programme in 2022.

The essay that Noor wrote was in response to the question ‘What is an example of modern slavery?’. A sensitive and nuanced topic such as this one made Noor stop to think - making sure to create a carefully considered answer.

“I found out about the essay competition through my school in Pakistan. When I read about the prizes that participants could win I was surprised. The essay prompts for all the subjects were genuinely fascinating and thought provoking, which made me want to write an essay even if I didn’t win.”

Essay writing is a skill which, like any other skill, needs to be practiced and developed over time. Critical thinking and constructing persuasive arguments which are also backed up with water-tight research is a skill that many students struggle to master, making this free-to-enter competition a fantastic way to develop essay writing skills outside of school.

We spoke to a member of the Immerse Education essay competition team about how they choose the winning essays.

“We receive thousands of competition entries every year from students all over the world. Marked anonymously by our panel of expert tutors, each essay is given careful consideration, and a score based on impact and clarity amongst a variety of other aspects that make an excellent essay. We’re thrilled to be able to give this opportunity to everyone, and it’s great to meet the scholarship winners when they attend the programme of their choice in the summer”

The essay competition is running again in 2022 and 2023, and is open to all students, from anywhere in the world. The competition offers the opportunity for students to practice their essay-writing skills, with essay questions on over 25 topics. Although the 100% scholarship prize is only awarded to 10 winners, Immerse Education also awards runners-up with partial scholarships of up to 50% off their summer school.

You can read both Noor’s and Kornelia’s story and a selection of other 100% scholarship winners here .

Learn more about the Immerse Education Essay Competition here . The current competition closes on the 4th of January 2023.

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Immerse Education Summer School Essay Competition 2022 (Win 100% scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge)

Deadline: August 31, 2022

Are you a highly ambitious student interested in attending the Immerse Summer School in Oxford or Cambridge, or maybe even London or Sydney? Apply now for the Immerse Education Summer School Essay Competition 2022 .

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject.

Immerse Education offers a variety of summer programs, from Architecture to Physics, and if you’re looking to showcase your academic skills then this is the essay competition for you! The Immerse Education Essay Competition offers applicants the opportunity to win a 100% scholarship to participate in an Immerse program.

• 1st place: 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship
• Runners Up: Runners Up will be awarded partial scholarships of up to 70% to study their chosen subject with Immerse. The number of runners up will be determined by the number of entries received, and the quality of the work submitted. Usually around 7% of entrants receive scholarship funding to attend an Immerse program.

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• Open to students of all nationalities who will be aged 13-18 during the summer of 2023.
• You can enter one entry only. If you submit entries for several subjects, the first entry received will be the only entry assessed.

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Cambridge & Oxford [The Immerse Education] Summer School Essay Competition 2023: Submit by Aug 31

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The Immerse Education (Immerse Summer School in Oxford & Cambridge) is inviting submissions for its Essay Competition 2023.

About the Immerse Education

Immerse Education was founded in 2012 with the aim of providing students aged 11-18 with unparalleled educational experiences. Immerse School has educated thousands of students through their exceptional academic enrichment programs in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge University.

All of Immerse’s programs are designed by tutors from leading global universities and help prepare participants for future success.

About the Competition

The Immerse Education Essay Competition offers applicants the opportunity to win a 100% scholarship to participate in an Immerse summer program.

Are you a highly ambitious student interested in attending the Immerse Summer School in Oxford or Cambridge?

This is an opportunity for students to showcase their academic skills through this essay competition.

What is the Immerse Education Essay Competition?

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject.

Who is it for?

Students of all nationalities who will be aged 13-18 during the Summer of 2023.

Subjects for 13 – 15 year olds

• Architecture
• Computer Science
• Creative Writing
• Engineering
• International Relations

Subjects for 16 – 18 year olds

• English Literature
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Topics for the Essay

A pre-set question relating to the applicant’s chosen subject.

To find the list of questions, fill up the form given on this page .

Awards and Prizes

• 1st Prize: 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship
• Runners Up will be awarded partial scholarships of up to 70% to study their chosen subject with Immerse. The number of runners up will be determined by the number of entries received, and the quality of the work submitted.
• Usually around 7% of entrants receive scholarship funding to attend an Immerse programme.

Timeline for the Essay Competition

• Competition Opens : March 16, 2022
• Competition Closes : August 31, 2022
• Results Announced : October 1, 2022
• Programme Dates : July-August 2023

Click here to know all about the Immerse Education Summer School Essay Competition 2023.

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Immerse Education Essay Winner – Iram Pannu

February 15, 2022.

Iram Pannu, a student of Grade 8, has won a scholarship of 20% to take part in summer programs at Oxford, Cambridge and LSE through the Immerse Education Essay Competition 2022.

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides students aged between 13 and 18 with the opportunity to submit essays related to their chosen subject. Iram presented her essay on the topic ‘Romance’. She did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of the Romance genre and what it means to everyone.

Iram’s words depicted Romance differently amongst her competitors and pushed her to win. We are proud of your achievement, Iram. Best of luck for all future endeavours!

“Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;”

– Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

Romance, a genre which has never failed to make my heart aflutter. The theme tugs at vulnerable  hearts. Love, the word itself makes us feel an emotion, that some are desperately trying to find while  some don’t want to believe in it’s existence. It tempts inquisitive teenagers along with wise adults  with its overwhelming clichés and makes them believe that love is the most beautiful thing that one  can experience.

Romance can be found in the deepest corner of a library, where only the hopeless romantics look, for  a new journey down the rocky road of love to make their heart skip a beat. Even the most intellectual  minds find themselves turned towards the calling of romance. Romance stirs something deep inside us  which is not in our control.

Romance pulls us into a fairy tale, where we observe the love shared between two individuals. As we  observe their growing admiration towards one another, we start to get emotionally connected to the  characters and we hope to find love, the love which is in a romance novel.

Romance, as a genre, lets us be in a character’s shoes as we feel their extreme emotions take over us.  It lets us empathise with the characters in their most difficult times and makes us celebrate in their  happiest. Although, this is applicable for all genres, romance has much more to offer and one of those  things is an assured happy ending. Happy endings have always seemed to reassure me that the love  between the main leads is eternal, which makes it easier for oneself to connect to the characters. We  understand them and put ourselves in their situation just to feel their happiness and their pain.

One of the greatest examples of eternal love is the love between Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Height, by Emily Brontë . The love between Heathcliff and Catherine was so passionate  that it destroyed the others around them. Catherine had a lot of pride due to which she tried to forget  her love for Heathcliff and married Edgar Linton. But, her love for Heathcliff was much more than  her pride. Though she was married to Edgar, she knew that she could never love him as much as she  loved Heathcliff. Heathcliff never gave up on his love. One thing that never failed to surprise me was  his faith in his love for Catherine.

There are countless people who assume that romance is mainly based on physical affection, but,  romance is so much more. It’s about the emotional bond that a reader and the characters share. It’s  more about the people and their emotions than the physical display of affection. Romance teaches us  that love has no religion, caste or sex and that everyone has the right to love and be loved.

In conclusion to this, romance gives an encouraging and important message, which is that everyone  deserves to be loved. It teaches us compassion and brings us together in a way that no other genre can.

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Call for Applications: The 2024 Essay Competition on the topic “Digitalization of Armed Conflicts”

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The International Committee of the Red Cross in the Republic of Moldova (ICRC) is proud to announce an essay competition on the theme Digitalization of Armed Conflicts . The competition seeks to spotlight that, applied in the spirit in which they were designed to protect and function, the Geneva Conventions can rise to the modern challenges of today’s armed conflicts.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, a moment of recommitment towards IHL. The Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1949 and are now universally ratified. They represent a universal acknowledgement that war needs rules to limit its devastating impact. In an often-divided world, when parties respect the law, lives are saved, humanitarian actors are enabled to provide aid to affected populations and the principle of humanity is upheld. 

At the same time, new challenges such as cyber warfare have become reality in contemporary armed conflicts. We, therefore, encourage students to approach the topic from various perspectives, such as: What are the ethical challenges of using cyber operations in warfare? How can technology be used responsibly in armed conflicts so as to ensure civilian safety? How can the global community work together to reduce the risks of cyber warfare? How does international humanitarian law protect humanitarian workers from cyber warfare? How can media reporting on military cyber operations help raise awareness about civilian risks during armed conflicts? These are examples, and participants are welcome to choose one of these questions or explore other related topics in their essays.

In today’s world, that is increasingly polarized and where international commitments are being challenged, the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law embody universal humanitarian values that preserve lives and dignity. What the world needs more than ever is a more robust adherence to the Geneva Conventions. This is where the students of today - the future generations of professionals - step in. We at the ICRC support the students in exploring, engaging and debating with the ethical and humanitarian issues arising from armed conflict so that they are able to play their role of re-affirming the enduring relevance of IHL, the deep-rooted respect for human dignity, both in peacetime and in the midst of armed conflict. Doris El Doueihy, Head of Delegation, ICRC, Chisinau

To participate, students must submit their essays along with a copy of their identification and proof of enrollment in a university programme (undergraduate or masters). These documents must be received by the ICRC Chisinau Delegation no later than 31 October 2024 at 23:59 . Submissions can be sent by email to [email protected] or by mail to Bulgara Str. 23, MD-2001, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Participation in the competition is individual, collective work is not accepted. Essays can be written in Romanian, Russian or English. Winners will be informed in the last week of November 2024 and invited for an awards ceremony scheduled for early December.

The winning entries will be selected by a panel of IHL experts chosen by the ICRC. Participants will be assessed on their logical arguments, the depth to which they develop their answers, structure and demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. 

The winners will be notified by the end of November 2024 and invited to an awards ceremony. 

The 1 st prize essay:  an internship at the ICRC in Chisinau ;

The 2 nd prize essay:  a day spent at the ICRC in Chisinau and attendance of an ICRC event on IHL ;

The 3 rd prize essay:  ICRC IHL publications

Certificates of participation will be provided for all submissions that are not disqualified.  

Useful links to sources on the topic of the competition:

ICRC Report,  Protecting Civilians Against Digital Threats During Armed Conflict , September 2023

Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog,  Foghorns of War: IHL and Information Operations During Armed Conflict , Tilman Rodenhauser and Samit D’Cunha, October 2023

Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog,  What We Don’t Understand About Digital Risks in Armed Conflict and What to Do About it , Rizk and Cordey, July 2023

ICRC Position Paper,  International Humanitarian Law and Cyber Operations during Armed Conflict , November 2019

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