Students sent to China to study non existent degree course

News & Politics
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What was supposed to be a scholarship has allegedly turned into a two-year vacation for a group of 21 Free State students, who have been sponsored by government to study Mandarin in China.

City Press has learnt that the group was recruited by the Free State government in 2014 when Ace Magashule was the province’s premier.

The group flew to China last year under instruction to study Mandarin at Jiangxi University of Technology.

However, sources with intimate knowledge of the scholarship told City Press that the university does not offer a degree in Mandarin.

One disgruntled student painted a gloomy picture of their situation.

The student said they were promised that on their return they would be employed as translators at their respective municipalities.

Last Friday, the source said, the Free State government instructed students to return home in December this year for good – without finishing their studies.

“There is nothing that they are gaining there. They are studying elementary Mandarin which is useful for everyday life in China, but does not guarantee one a job. It’s not a qualification. They cannot become Mandarin translators as government hoped to use them. But government is not accepting their view that they won’t be translators. Even in China, they have been told that they cannot get a job by only passing Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) tests. It’s only when this is accompanied by a qualification of some sort.”

A source said even some of the students who had failed their HSK4 test were currently studying HSK5 along with students who had passed HSK4.

“They were progressed to HSK5 nevertheless, which shows the mismanagement. Last year all students were given certificates and a small function was held as some form of graduation, which actually was just 30 minutes of receiving certificates, taking pictures and going to eat.

“Again what they called a graduation has no value because even people who failed the HSK4 test graduated. All of this happened last year in December because the university was convinced that they were going back home, so it is safe to say that they carried on with HSK5 without any plan, but just to stay there and waste taxpayer’s money.”

https://city-press.news24.com/News/studying-for-two-years-only-to-find-out-university-does-not-offer-a-degree-20180707

I hope this doesn’t happen to our Kenyan brothers and sisters sent to study “railway engineering” in China.

Africans tulirogwa na nani? :mad:

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when people become desperate, beggars, and think majuu offers heaven, they can even fly to study Bachelors Degree in Microsoft Word like Yaliyodwele Sipite

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Bit Who do we blame?

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Our mindset, there are million opportunities here in Africa but people are brainwashed to think majuu there is milk and honey

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Many elite African people squander opportunities for many, so they end up looking for opportunities abroad. The elites are usually collaborate with whites/indians/arabs to oppress fellow Africans.

The situation is different in Europe, for example, where we see e.g. the British going to conquer and steal from foreign countries and take wealth to British (e.g kenya and Nigeria). They rarely steal from fellow countrymen.

How does one explain Kenyans heading to middle east despite history of abuse?

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a combination of many factors. First being lack of skills and that explains why many people moving to middle east are semi-skilled or unskilled. The other could be unemployment and lack of support services in Africa. Third is leadership that have squandered the opportunities. Finally, and the most important is that youths are looking for quick riches where they will earn $400 while they can work hard and be strategic in Africa and make the same or close (speaking with experience from a friend) who is a trained driver and mechanic but is so desperate looking for agencies and going for interviews to work in Middle East

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I disagree on lack of skills. Many african skills are actually underutilized. Take for example the Mali nigga who got himself knighthood for saving a white kid hanging on balcony, and many others.

I believe majority of skill for developing country do not require school learning (aka finising class 8 etc). It only require ability to learn. And one become proficient in one month.

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haha, that of climbing windows is skills? that is jokes. even gorillas and cats can

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You can blame the primitive African mentality that when something goes wrong their first instinct is to look around desperately for someone to blame.

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Kenyans enjoy being abused