Universities Abroad Link (UAL)
Designed to assist Tanzanians to study abroad at affordable costs,
it is coordinated by representatives of overseas universities in
Tanzania, Universities Abroad Link (UAL).
Those who left were students who failed to join higher education
institutions because of limited vacancies in local higher learning
institutions. As a result many students who qualified for admission had
to resort to looking for opportunities to study abroad and realise their
dreams.
To bid farewell to them at the Julius Nyerere International Airport
(JNIA) was the UAL Country Director, Tony Rodgers Kabetha. He said the
institution had started the special programme to help Tanzania students
pursue studies abroad at affordable costs like those of tuition fees.
UAL represents universities in the US, UK, Canada, Norway, Australia, India, China and South Africa, he said, explaining:
“Apart from the 40 students leaving today (yesterday) for China and
UK, another group of 70 students left a few weeks ago for the US, China
and India.”
Kabetha said under this programme students get discounts of 100 per
cent, 70 per cent, 50 per cent or 30 per cent on study costs,
accommodation and residence. This depends on the type of courses and
country a student wants to study, he said.
“For instance, students heading for China are supposed to pay for
one year only to study a Chinese foundation course. Afterwards they
choose courses they would like to pursue without paying any money until
they finish their studies,” said Kabetha, noting that this is part of a
programme called ‘Study Chinese and Get a Scholarship.’
Under the affordable fee abroad programme, students pay study and
accommodation fees in installments until they complete studies, he said.
Expounding, Kabetha said the aim of the UAL special programme was
to assist Tanzanian students undertake courses that largely contribute
to national development.
He mentioned the courses as those on oil and natural gas, computer
security/cyber system, computer software, business/corporate laws,
economics, international trade, medicine and pharmacy.
“These are sensitive and rare subjects…if we get competent
Tanzanians in such subjects surely not only will the national economy
grow faster than now, but that of individuals as well,” he said.
Mary Simama, one of the students who left for China yesterday (for a
degree course in Economics and International Trade), commended the UAL
for initiating an education information centre which guides students on
the type of courses they want to pursue and which country to take them.
Said another student, Desdery Muyobera, who went to study medicine:
“Opportunities offered to Tanzanian students to undergo training on oil
and gas will make them experts in that field.
“They will make Tanzania utilise well its resources, spur growth
and development of the national as well as individual people’s
economies. We thank UAL for introducing such an initiative.”
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
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