Foreign Perspectives

Yesterday was the day that everyone had been told that registration for the summer schools in 2012 would open so lots of people got going early and received the confirmation of their registration.

Snag is that somebody opened up the registrations too early. The arrangements with the various host universities aren’t yet completed. So, they closed registrations around 10am.

You’d think that those who’d already registered would be OK, but apparently they’re going to cancel all those registrations and it’s back to the drawing board for the new opening date of August 31st. Quite why they couldn’t have just kept the existing registrations I don’t know. Financially, it’s going to complicate the lives of a number of people as OU refunds can take a number of weeks to come back and with August 31st being only three weeks off, they may not be received before the new registrations need to be paid for.