Britain Students: win a trip to Paradise
Enter our travel writing competition, and you could phone home from the Queensland coast
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Your support makes all the difference.Can you write the ultimate survival manual for Manchester, or tell fellow students how to get the most out of Strathclyde? If so, you could win a trip to an even more exotic university town. BT Chargecard and The Independent have joined forces with Rough Guides and Campus Travel to concoct the best-ever student travel-writing competition.
To enter, you need not venture beyond your own city limits. The task is to write a Rough Guide-style account - in no more than 500 words - of the town or city where you study.
Send your guide to the address below, and you could win one of five big prizes:
5. Travel by Eurostar to Paris, and cross to the Sorbonne on the Left Bank (plus pounds 750 spending money).
4. Fly to Bologna, venue for one of the most ancient universities in Europe (plus pounds 750 spending money).
3. Take a trip to Harvard, just across the river from the New England city of Boston (plus pounds 1,000 spending money).
2. Wander over to the West Coast, and bowl up at Berkeley, on the San Francisco bay (plus pounds 1,000 spending money).
1. Surfer's Paradise may sound like an implausible place to graduate, but study's up at Bond University on the Queensland coast of Australia (plus pounds 1,500 spending money).
For guidance on styling your story, BT has set up a special helpline (0345 345004) which you can call - at local rates - to hear top tips from Rough Guide writers. If you are calling from a payphone, you will find it cheaper to make the call with a BT Chargecard than by using cash. Call free on 0800 345144 to sign up.
Send your account, which needs to be accurate, pithy and observant, to: Write Your Way Around The World, Rough Guides, 1 Mercer Street, London WC2H 9QT, to arrive by 1 March.The results will be announced just before Easter. Ten runners-up will each receive the Rough Guide to Britain. The winners may be commissioned to work on an assignment for Rough Guides, payable at the usual rates.
Rules
1. Only students currently registered at UK universities and colleges may apply.
2. Neither employees of Newspaper Publishing, British Telecommunications plc, Campus Travel or Rough Guides, nor their relatives, may enter.
3. Winners will be notified by post by 21 March.
4. Travel arrangements will be made by Campus Travel, and will aim to match the winner's preferred dates of travel. Please note, however, that certain dates may not be available due to heavy booking.
5. The editor's decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
6. Usual Newspaper Publishing plc rules apply.
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