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Thousand students in Southern Africa benefits through “Affordable Fee to Study” Abroad

By Mnaku Mbani

OVER 1,000 students from Southern Africa have graduated and pursued their university degrees following a special programme, dubbed “Affordable Fee to Study,” which has been designed to assist locals to study in abroad at affordable cost.
Universities Abroad Link (UAL) a unique educational agency established ten years ago connects students in Sub Sahara to study in Asia, America and Europe thanks to the founders.
Speaking in an exclusive interview to the East African Business Week last week in Dar es Salaam, Universities Abroad Link (UAL), Founder and Country Director, Tony Rodgers Kabetha said that students from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa now have the platform of education that allow them to choose which is the best university to go for degree courses.
“For quite sometimes students from Southern Sahara Africa had not platform or appropriate agency to educate them about the best universities around the world, the marketable courses that have labor market demand and well paid,” he noted.
He further said that students from those African countries can apply and get scholarship to the best universities from United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, China, India, Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Denmark and Norway with less, equivalent courses fees from their respective African countries.
Kabetha, an electronics and Communication engineer who turned to be an educationalist said that the ideal of having that unique platform came almost nine years ago when group students from Africa in the US started to think on the best way to assist international students from Africa with relevant information on university courses in abroad.
“We decided to come up with this unique platform in order to give Tanzanians and other African student’s relevant information about the universities and appropriate courses that will suit them into the labour market demand,” he added.
He noted that the UAL is also giving career counseling to students to ensure that they don’t pursue degrees that they found themselves jobless and less marketable in the labour market in Tanzania, Africa and in Europe.
“What do you want to study? Where to you want to study? Why are you taking this course, we are simply giving them adequate and useful information even the weather climate of the specific country after that we take them to Europe, America or Asia please note we are not sending them there, we are taking them,” he emphasized.
Before the establishment of the link between international students and universities international marketers most of the African students as well as their parents they were cheated, receiving wrong information and then at the end of the day paying money for less nothing.
Kabetha underscored that the most challenging thing to majority of Tanzanians students pursued degree courses that are not marketable in fact the possibility of getting a job is almost 0.1% due to the fact that they had not career counseling by then.
According to him the innovation of Information Technology has exterminated some of jobs but the existing of the IT has also creating other employment around the globe so it is a matter of students to analyses these changes walk of them accordingly.
He said that the most marketable and well paid jobs nowadays are Petroleum Engineering, Energy, Oil and Gas Economics, Economics and International Trade, ICT and IT Law, to mention a few.
“Another challenges and most cumbersome thing here at UAL is to fix the admission and semesters timetable of Asia, America and Europe to go shoulder to shoulder with the African semesters,” he explained.
UAL started life in 2006 providing information on university courses to prospective students. It turned out to be extremely useful for international students, so they now operate in countries all over the world providing helpful services for prospective international students.
Those services include a searchable database of over 100,000 courses, the ability to compare courses online, and loads of useful and timely advice through their online newsletters and student forums.
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