As founder and CEO of World Research UK (GSUK), one of many main schooling businesses within the Center East and North Africa, I’m proud to say that we have now the fitting individuals in place to hearken to and help college students in Egypt who wish to research overseas. This offers our counsellors at our central hub within the MENA area the chance to realize useful insights into the problems college students are dealing with each day.
Through the years, we have now seen a number of international locations expertise financial ups and downs and fewer beneficial alternate charges could cause college students to assume twice about their dream of learning overseas. Whereas that is the scenario for a lot of Egyptian college students in the meanwhile, they need to not lose coronary heart.
What college students are telling us
With improved profession outcomes a key motivator for learning overseas, it’s maybe not a shock that one of many greatest fears we commonly hear our college students voice is the likelihood that the UK’s Graduate visa is likely to be altered or watered down.
At GSUK we imagine that it’s our job, along with educators and establishments, to make use of our affect to make sure this fabulous alternative stays open. In any case, what an expertise it’s for a graduate to work within the UK and, after two years, take their expertise again dwelling and apply it alongside the schooling they acquired.
Egyptian college students additionally fear about rising tuition charges and value of dwelling; these are legitimate considerations that we will supply help to handle. In our expertise, exterior financial components typically don’t deter college students and their households from investing in schooling, particularly after they obtain hands-on help from our knowledgeable brokers.
How we help our college students
Our function at GSUK is to push each impediment out of the way in which in order that the desires and aspirations of our college students and their households might be achieved.
We place nice significance on empowering our college students with data. If we don’t present them with key data — every thing they should know from A-Z, with out skipping a letter — then we aren’t constructing confidence. Our intention is for college students to reach within the UK feeling like they’ve already been there as a result of their counsellor, advisor, and college has engaged with them at each step of the way in which and offered them with every thing they want.
We additionally prefer to have some enjoyable! We host occasions together with, most lately, a desk tennis event for highschool college students in Cairo that we placed on with certainly one of our companions, Kaplan Worldwide Pathways. The prize: a coaching course for his or her faculty counsellor. It is because we perceive the significance of involving faculty counsellors within the course of — usually, they’ve recognized their college students since they entered secondary faculty and are well-placed to assist us help college students as they progress into greater schooling.
What extra can the sector do for Egyptian college students
Sooner or later, we merely want extra, and we want it earlier. Extra face-to-face interactions with college students, extra gala’s, extra occasions at excessive faculties, but additionally extra collaboration between schooling suppliers, universities and brokers. This consists of serving to college students to use and pay their deposits earlier to offer them extra stability, and extra possibilities to economize via higher tuition charges and scholarship alternatives.
For Egyptian college students, we will additionally ease the monetary burden brought on by foreign money fluctuations via scholarships, assist with discovering extra inexpensive lodging, or by offering details about easy methods to get glorious worth for cash throughout their research overseas expertise.
Our guideline at GSUK is “pupil first”. It sounds easy, however once we put the scholar first, we remind ourselves of why we do what we do. By supporting the scholars of as we speak, we’re paving the way in which for the leaders of tomorrow, and serving to to make the world a stronger, safer, and extra educated place.
Concerning the creator: Amer Mourad is the founder and CEO of World Research UK (GSUK), an schooling consultancy primarily based in London, United Kingdom.
With over 20 years of expertise within the worldwide greater schooling sector, Amer has been on the forefront of an ever-changing worldwide schooling market. He leads a staff of devoted professionals and recognises that, at GSUK, their greatest asset is their individuals. All the time inviting change and new methods to develop GSUK to raised serve their college students, Amer believes that evolution is vital to persevering with to assist college students succeed. With the help of the GSUK staff, Amer goals to offer college students the chance to realize data and abilities that may assist them create a brighter world.
