But in December, two days before they were due to fly home, Alice and Summer were dead, drowned in a fierce rip current as they waded in the Indian Ocean during a end-of-scheme visit Lattitude organised to a nearby coastal resort.
There are, however, growing fears in academia that the rise in undergraduate fees and the end of schemes such as the education maintenance allowance will leave domestic students too indebted to afford a postgraduate education in the UK, which could become the preserve of foreign students.
Pravda, a newspaper in the Soviet Union, wrote of new enduring themes such as collective leadership, scientific planning, consultation with experts, organisational regularity and the ending of schemes.
"We hope that there will also soon be clarity on issues such as the government's exit strategy at the end of the scheme".
"At the end of the scheme's three-year life, if a future government proposes to extend the scheme, the FPC will have to give its agreement".
Our scheme is designed to ensure that there are actually jobs at the end of the scheme for young people".
The grandmother got wise, however, and that was the end of that scheme.
The publicity starts in The Philadelphia Inquirer... and that was the end of the scheme".
However, the end of the scheme will put pressure on lenders to increase rates.
St. George's Church would anchor the western end of the scheme, St. Andrew's the eastern.
Although not guaranteed a job at the end of the scheme, more than 88% of the graduates stay in local government, according to latest figures.
