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A friend of mine is starting a useful site for all Central Europeans aspiring to get to elite schools, like Harvard, Oxford, MIT or Cambridge. I’m helping him with some technical aspects of the project as well as with some editing.

I fell for this project because of my fondness of Tomas’s unadulterated sense for irony. He also needed a copy editor. So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome this pro bono project with a round of applause and many visits to the site.

Here comes the official news release (read: shameless self-promotion).

A new blog about prestigious education called Aspirations.cz is coming to life. Its content is made up of tips on how to get to the top U.K. and U.S. universities, as well as philosophy of education. The project is headed by Tomas Temer, a recent LSE graduate.

Tomas Temer points out that one of the main reasons for starting this project was a lack of coverage in the mainstream media dedicated to topnotch education.

When I was applying for my LSE master’s degree I couldn’t find any quality source of information relating to Central and Eastern Europe. There is almost no platform for discussion about applying to the top European and U.S. schools.

The aim of the project is to provide motivated students in the CEE region with more information about prestigious schooling. The blog will feature practical information on getting admitted to  esteemed universities and making the most of high-quality education. Commentary on the latest developments in academia will also be present.

The blog will also present theoretical posts on philosophy of western education. According to Tomas Temer, this fulfills the educational role of the blog.

The readers should not act on information without knowing the broader context of the Western style of teaching and learning. The posts filled with theory provide the readers with the necessary breadth and depth.