THE FATE OF POOR GRADUATES SEEKING GRADUATE PROGRAMM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Sometimes I wonder if the world is fashioned in such a way to
suffer the poor. Sometimes I wonder why the elites at all levels including
those in academics almost seems to think the same way. The issue of admission
is not new to most of us, especially those of us that had suffered some kind of
indirect defrauding and denier in our quest for a better life and
advancement.
I recalled with shock my experience in 2015, during my graduate
degree application to the University of Manitoba. I had completed my B.
Eng. Agricultural Engineering from Federal University of Technology Owerri with
a second-class honours, upper division (CGPA 3.61) and joined Imo State
Polytechnic as a graduate intern in August, 2014 which I completed
successfully, and with same zeal had aspired to complete a postgraduate
course in Biosystems Engineering to boost my career prospects.
Although, from the beginning, there was the problem of
finance until a friend volunteered to render a sponsor help and this
prompted me to approach the application with great zeal. It was my dream
to complete an M.Eng. course from Canada and the University of Manitoba became
my first choice. Unknown to me, my first choice University had a 'hidden'
requirement which was not known to me at that material time. I submitted all
the paper work, paid for my transcript and also my processing fee. To my
greatest surprise I was denied admission with the flimsy excuse "inability
to secure an advisor".
My point here is that some Universities know from unset that this
particular student might not be granted the admission but they will
still go ahead to collect application fee or processing fee, allowed you pay
for transcript. What is the need to require for
language proficiency score when the intending student had all
his undergraduate courses taught in English? There are issues that
are passive and should not be used to deny genuine applicants’ admission.
My submission is that, universities all over the world should make
their application process less cumbersome; like transcript requirement should be
after the person must have been granted admission or the university system
should through their internal communication with their counterpart universities
request for the candidates’ transcript without the knowledge of the applicant.
The CGPA score is enough to access the student performance at that level. This
will reduce the application cost in the side of the students who are even
hoping to secure scholarship to fund their admission.
Thanks.
Onyekachi Chukwunyere Ebosi.
