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Don't know where to post this, my african friend would like to study in Ireland!

  • 17-11-2009 10:56am
    #1
    Overblood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭


    Where does he begin? He's looking for some sort of scholarship. He's studying computer science at the moment in Uganda. Let's just say he wants to study in NUI Galway. How does he go about applying for a place? How do africans generally get grants etc to study abroad?


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  • #2
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1144

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=832

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=433

    or the whole Edu Category
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=28


  • #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Not from the EU so he'll be paying fees.
    Realy for grants, shouldn't be checking what's on offer in Uganda to allow people to study abroad. That's probably the first step

    Good info here:
    http://www.icosirl.ie/eng/student_information/funding_fees_and_grants
    It confirms that NUI Galway will charge fees so your friend needs to contact them directly and ask how much are fees for each course.

    There is some sort of grant scheme but only for those countries that Ireland and the Dept of Foreign Affairs have a relationship with
    ICOS plays a role in managing the Irish Aid Fellowship Training Programme for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland, but is not a funding body itself. The Irish Aid Fellowships awarded by the Department of Foreign Affairs - www.dfa.ie - are targeted at the countries in which Ireland has established development cooperation programmes: Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Timor Leste, Vietnam and the Palestinian Territories. » More on eligibility


    Contact the Department of Education too for information on grants.


  • #4
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    I see it right between Tanzania and Zambia.


  • #5
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    He should pose as a wealthy business man who has millions of euros which is tied up in a bank in his country and can only be released if someone sends a small amount to him to pay for the international transfer. he should then claim that he will split the money with whoever dose this e-mail thousands of people all over the word. That should generate enough money for his fees.


  • #6
    Overblood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Overblood


    I see Uganda there too! Sound!


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
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    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    I see it right between Tanzania and Zambia.

    Don't be silly - Uganda is between Kenya and the Congo. It doesn't even share a border with Zambia. ;)


  • #8
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,365 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    Edit: African AND Black


  • #9
    w123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭w123


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    helpful


  • #10
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    Like Oprah to a ham, walshb charges in to get his retalliation in first.


  • #11
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    in keeping with his stereotype he'll probably be banging your wife/gf with his much-bigger-penis-than-yours before you know it too


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  • #12
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    Just curious, how does someone in Uganda decide that NUIG is the place to go for computer science?

    P.S. before I give you the information, can you confirm whether or not his name is Idi?

    Thanks


  • #13
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!
    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    in keeping with his stereotype he'll probably be banging your wife/gf with his much-bigger-penis-than-yours before you know it too

    You forgot to mention Aids.


  • #14
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Long Onion wrote: »
    Just curious, how does someone in Uganda decide that NUIG is the place to go for computer science?

    Central Park Night Club's reputation is global at this stage.


  • #15
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    Edit: African AND Black


    The edit makes it so much better!


  • #16
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Central Park Night Club's reputation is global at this stage.


    CP's smells of pissflaps.


  • #17
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    Edit: African AND Black

    What the funk?

    From a normal poster maybe, but a mod of this site...:confused:


  • #18
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »
    What the funk?

    From a normal poster maybe, but a mod of this site...:confused:

    Especially a mod in the boxing forum - the last Black boxers who came here just got people throwing digs at them.


  • #19
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    Edit: African AND Black

    Banned.


  • #20
    crushproof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭crushproof


    walshb wrote: »
    Well, considering he's African, he will have folks here falling over themselves to help
    him. Whatever it costs, you can be sure he won't be paying!

    Edit: African AND Black


    Eh? How can a Mod get away with saying something like this??? :confused:

    And to whoever said how Ugandans know about NUIG...I'm quite sure they have the technological innovation that is the internet over there.
    And sure they most likely have much faster broadband speeds then this 3rd world country! :cool:

    If Uganda is part of the Commonwealth (?) it could help him alot in terms of getting a student visa with help from the British embassy....a friend of mine did something familar.



    (Edit...Ah, just saw walshB was banned...I hope he's stripped of his Mod status)


  • #21
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    crushproof wrote: »
    (Edit...Ah, just saw walshB was banned...I hope he's stripped of his Mod status)

    Less of that please.

    He's been banned, move on.


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  • #22
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    crushproof wrote: »
    And to whoever said how Ugandans know about NUIG...I'm quite sure they have the technological innovation that is the internet over there.
    And sure they most likely have much faster broadband speeds then this 3rd world country! :cool:

    That was me - I didn't ask how someone from Uganda knows of NUIG, I asked how someone from Uganda would decide NUIG was the place to study computer science. I didn't think of Uganda, Zaire, French Equatorial Adisabbaba or Mongolia when deciding to do a Masters. I was just curious as to how Galway springs to the mind of a student in Uganda.

    There are no sinister motives, it was simply a question for curiosities sake.


  • #23
    crushproof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭crushproof


    Long Onion wrote: »
    That was me - I didn't ask how someone from Uganda knows of NUIG, I asked how someone from Uganda would decide NUIG was the place to study computer science. I didn't think of Uganda, Zaire, French Equatorial Adisabbaba or Mongolia when deciding to do a Masters. I was just curious as to how Galway springs to the mind of a student in Uganda.

    There are no sinister motives, it was simply a question for curiosities sake.


    Sorry Onion, my bad....I was just glacing through the posts! Forgiveness please!


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