When Hon. Dimeji Bankole became Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives after the resignation of Patricia Etteh, everybody was asking, “Who is he?” When they were told that he studied at Oxford and Harvard, everybody was tight-lipped. They were only able to say, “He must be educated. This is the speaker we want”. They said this without knowing anything about the man other than he studied at these world renowned institutions. This clearly illustrates the fact that, if you can associate your name with Oxford or Harvard, people will see you as soundly educated and highly intelligent even if you share the same neurons with the Dumb and the Dumberer.
Are you not just curious to experience first hand if the value of Oxford education equals the hype? As you’ll soon discover, Oxford education is within the reach of every body. Even the secondary school leaver that sells pure water in the streets of Abuja - and who is roundly hounded by the FCDA task force- can go to Oxford. And I’m not talking about ability only; I’m also talking about affordability. This pure water seller can afford to go to University of Oxford! “What’s he talking about?” you say. Well let me tell you what this piece is not. It’s not an inspirational writing that will get you so exhilarated only for the excitement to wear off tomorrow. This piece is a road map that when you follow, will not only lead to having your name on the University of Oxford certificate, but it will also make you an alumnus of the university in the next couple of months. Thereafter, you can rub shoulders with the Speaker, if you like.
What can I register for?
This discussion does not cover undergraduate degree, master degree or any degree. Not that these are not attainable by ordinary Nigerians. They are. But I believe it’s always better to start from the simplest things so that the height you gained from taking the first steps will enable you to see higher horizon. Thus, we are starting with 10-week certificate courses. It doesn’t matter for now whether you’re going for certificate, diploma or degree courses, what matters now is to experience Oxford University in the comfort of your own room and to have your humble name on that oft-glorified card and start enjoying the benefits that come with it. So Oxford is Oxford whether you studied Nuclear Physics there or you were taught 1, 2, 3 and a, b, c.
Courses
At Oxford Continuing Education Department, there are several courses you can register for. But we are going to limit ourselves to two philosophy courses that I’m sure are open for enrollment right now. The courses are Epistemology (The Theory of Knowledge) and Political Philosophy. Each is a 10-week course beginning January 2007.
Epistemology
The aim of the short Epistemology course is to:
(1) introduce students to the main themes in the theory of knowledge, such as the problem of scepticism, the various debates regarding how best to understand what knowledge is, and the key issues regarding the sources of knowledge;
(2) like all philosophy courses, it also aims to help participants to think clearly and critically.
Additionally, the course will introduce students to philosophy and to the critical skills that are involved in doing philosophy, guide students through the central topics in the theory of knowledge and enable students to gain a thorough grounding in the key debates in this central area of philosophy.
The theory of knowledge is one of the most central areas of philosophy. In this online course students will cover the key questions in the theory of knowledge, such as:
What is knowledge?
Why is knowledge valuable to us?
What are the sources of knowledge?
Do we really have any knowledge?
Certification
The course is accredited and you will be awarded credit by the Board of Studies of Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The award will take the form of 10 units of transferable credit at undergraduate level 1 of the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS). To receive the credit, the student must participate and complete written contributions passably.
Assessment methods
The course assessment will be a written essay of about 1,000 words. Alternatively, students can submit a commentary on their contributions to the course discussions in about 1,000 words. Isn’t that easy?
Recommended reading
To participate in the course you will need to have regular access to the Internet and you will need to buy the following book ;Pritchard, D. H., What is This Thing Called Knowledge? (2006) Routledge, London. ISBN: 0415387981. The price is £14.99.
Prof Duncan Pritchard who is the author of the above book is also the author of this course. Prof Pritchard has written extensively on epistemology. His recent works include, Epistemic Luck, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.
It’s not necessary to give details on Political Philosophy because the information on Epistemology roughly covers it. Except that in the case of Political Philosophy you have to buy two books unlike Epistemology which requires only one.
Fee
The fee for each course minus the books is £395. That’s roughly N100, 000 (one hundred thousand naira). Even if you don’t have the money right away, you can save towards this simple way of obtaining excellent education from a world-class university.
For more information, visit: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/
Next, we are going to guide you towards putting your name on the Harvard Graduate School of Education certificate for less than N70, 000 (seventy thousand naira). A pie in the sky? Stay with me!
Visit my website www.degreein1year.googlepages.com to learn more about affordable courses and accelerated degrees.
Friday, 22 August 2008
How to earn a master degree from the best university in the world even without a first degree
The ‘best university in the world’ means Edinburgh Business School, the Graduate School of Business at Heriot-Watt University.
Many graduates of the school have said it is the best Business School in Scotland. And from what we know of UK education, any school that can be one the best in UK can be one the best anywhere in the world.
Recently, in its survey of 20 of the top global distance learning MBAs, Financial Times Newspaper ranked Edinburch Business School Heriot-Watt University as Europe’s largest and second largest in the world.
In 15 years, the EBS programmes have spawned over 10,000 graduates in 150 countries.
More than 50% of fortune 100 companies have their staff on the Edinburgh Business School MBA programme.
The school was given the Queen’s Award for export in 1994 and 1997.
Options
Student can acquire a General MBA or a Specialist Masters in an assortment of areas. You can have your MBA in Marketing, Human Resource Management, Finance, Strategic Planning or Public Administration.
A shower of Certificates
Students can obtain up to three certificates en route to completion of the MBA. This is good news for Nigerians. Admit it! Are we not a certificate crazy lot?
You can grab the following certificates as you go through the programme.
1. Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration
2. Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
3. Specialist (named) Postgraduate Diploma
I will tell you more about these certificates and how to obtain them presently.
From the horse’s mouth
“Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University offers a range of Postgraduate programmes in business and management, including one of the most popular online distance learning MBA programmes in the world.
“Intentionally different, we offer you choice and flexibility in your learning style, and judge you on your examination results not your coursework, language of study, attendance or life experience.
“We at Edinburgh Business School remove the barriers to study. If you have the determination and intellect, we give you the opportunity to succeed at Postgraduate level.”
Three months before the examination is scheduled register at ebsglobal.net your choice of exam and approximate location. You will then be allocated an examination centre, invigilator or proctor appointed by Edinburgh Business School.
If you need help registering for the exams, contact enquiries@ebs.hw.ac.uk.
Exam Sessions
The exam sessions called diets are held in all exam centres for all courses in June and December every year. Other exam sessions are held at selected centres for selected courses.
You have 3 hours to finish each exam. All questions are compulsory and must be answered. Though exam scripts are marked by EBS faculty, the script are robustly dissected by external examiners from other UK universities. You pay 100 pound sterling for each examination you sit. Also, you are allowed only two shots (examination attempts) for each core course.
This means if you flunked a core course you have one more chance of re-siting it.
Exam registration deadline
31st January for the March diet. 20th February for the June diet. 17th July for the August diet and 20th August for the December diet.
Nigerian exam centres
As I couldn’t find any Nigerian centre on EBS website, I asked them if Nigerians have to go to Ghana, which has a centre listed for their examination. But fortunately for us we don’t need to dust our bags and head for the Goldcoast. You however need to go to any British council nearest to you for your examination.
How many examinations do you need to sit?
Students going for general MBA need to sit 9 courses only. While those doing specialist MBA will sit for 11 courses.
Exemptions
Exemptions from some core courses may be granted to holders of recognized academic or professional qualification if they are of degree level and if they have been obtained by examination. You can not be granted exemption from an elective course. Do note that you are not going to be given exemption for work experience. EBS advises students not to purchase a course until they have applied for and received a response on their exemption requests.
Matriculation card
Registration as Heriot –Watt MBA student means you are going to be automatically registered as a matriculated part-time student at Heriot-Watt university and your matriculation card will be sent to you.
Entry requirements
I wanted to leave the interesting part till the last paragraph but let me give it to you now. You are not qualified to sit for the MBA courses if you do not have a first degree or reasonable academic record.
However……….
Passing three courses one of which must be a core courses, qualifies you for the programme.
This means even if you are a toddler who has never attended a nursery school can go for this MBA provided you can pass the three papers.
Also passing these three courses counts towards your qualification. That is passing three courses means you have only six more papers to write (if you are doing the general MBA).
Certificates
These are the things your need to do in order to get the certificates I talked about earlier.
1. To become eligible for the award of a Postgraduate, a student must be matriculated and successfully complete three MBA courses, at least one of which must be a core course.
2. To become eligible for the award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, a student must be matriculated and successfully complete six MBA courses, at least one of which must be a core MBA course.
3. To become eligible for the award of a specialist Postgraduate Diploma, a student must complete six courses to include the relevant core course and at least four of the electives designated as relevant of the specialism in question.
For more information contact:
British Council Abuja, Lagos, Port-Harcourt or Kano.
Edinburgh Business School
Tel: +44 (0) 131 451 3090, Fax: +44 (0) 131 14513092
Email:enquiries@abs.hw.ac.uk, Web: ebsglobal.net
If you still don’t know how to start, I may be able to answer one or two questions: 09-4801415, 08045081919, 08033764520
Many graduates of the school have said it is the best Business School in Scotland. And from what we know of UK education, any school that can be one the best in UK can be one the best anywhere in the world.
Recently, in its survey of 20 of the top global distance learning MBAs, Financial Times Newspaper ranked Edinburch Business School Heriot-Watt University as Europe’s largest and second largest in the world.
In 15 years, the EBS programmes have spawned over 10,000 graduates in 150 countries.
More than 50% of fortune 100 companies have their staff on the Edinburgh Business School MBA programme.
The school was given the Queen’s Award for export in 1994 and 1997.
Options
Student can acquire a General MBA or a Specialist Masters in an assortment of areas. You can have your MBA in Marketing, Human Resource Management, Finance, Strategic Planning or Public Administration.
A shower of Certificates
Students can obtain up to three certificates en route to completion of the MBA. This is good news for Nigerians. Admit it! Are we not a certificate crazy lot?
You can grab the following certificates as you go through the programme.
1. Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration
2. Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
3. Specialist (named) Postgraduate Diploma
I will tell you more about these certificates and how to obtain them presently.
From the horse’s mouth
“Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University offers a range of Postgraduate programmes in business and management, including one of the most popular online distance learning MBA programmes in the world.
“Intentionally different, we offer you choice and flexibility in your learning style, and judge you on your examination results not your coursework, language of study, attendance or life experience.
“We at Edinburgh Business School remove the barriers to study. If you have the determination and intellect, we give you the opportunity to succeed at Postgraduate level.”
Three months before the examination is scheduled register at ebsglobal.net your choice of exam and approximate location. You will then be allocated an examination centre, invigilator or proctor appointed by Edinburgh Business School.
If you need help registering for the exams, contact enquiries@ebs.hw.ac.uk.
Exam Sessions
The exam sessions called diets are held in all exam centres for all courses in June and December every year. Other exam sessions are held at selected centres for selected courses.
You have 3 hours to finish each exam. All questions are compulsory and must be answered. Though exam scripts are marked by EBS faculty, the script are robustly dissected by external examiners from other UK universities. You pay 100 pound sterling for each examination you sit. Also, you are allowed only two shots (examination attempts) for each core course.
This means if you flunked a core course you have one more chance of re-siting it.
Exam registration deadline
31st January for the March diet. 20th February for the June diet. 17th July for the August diet and 20th August for the December diet.
Nigerian exam centres
As I couldn’t find any Nigerian centre on EBS website, I asked them if Nigerians have to go to Ghana, which has a centre listed for their examination. But fortunately for us we don’t need to dust our bags and head for the Goldcoast. You however need to go to any British council nearest to you for your examination.
How many examinations do you need to sit?
Students going for general MBA need to sit 9 courses only. While those doing specialist MBA will sit for 11 courses.
Exemptions
Exemptions from some core courses may be granted to holders of recognized academic or professional qualification if they are of degree level and if they have been obtained by examination. You can not be granted exemption from an elective course. Do note that you are not going to be given exemption for work experience. EBS advises students not to purchase a course until they have applied for and received a response on their exemption requests.
Matriculation card
Registration as Heriot –Watt MBA student means you are going to be automatically registered as a matriculated part-time student at Heriot-Watt university and your matriculation card will be sent to you.
Entry requirements
I wanted to leave the interesting part till the last paragraph but let me give it to you now. You are not qualified to sit for the MBA courses if you do not have a first degree or reasonable academic record.
However……….
Passing three courses one of which must be a core courses, qualifies you for the programme.
This means even if you are a toddler who has never attended a nursery school can go for this MBA provided you can pass the three papers.
Also passing these three courses counts towards your qualification. That is passing three courses means you have only six more papers to write (if you are doing the general MBA).
Certificates
These are the things your need to do in order to get the certificates I talked about earlier.
1. To become eligible for the award of a Postgraduate, a student must be matriculated and successfully complete three MBA courses, at least one of which must be a core course.
2. To become eligible for the award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, a student must be matriculated and successfully complete six MBA courses, at least one of which must be a core MBA course.
3. To become eligible for the award of a specialist Postgraduate Diploma, a student must complete six courses to include the relevant core course and at least four of the electives designated as relevant of the specialism in question.
For more information contact:
British Council Abuja, Lagos, Port-Harcourt or Kano.
Edinburgh Business School
Tel: +44 (0) 131 451 3090, Fax: +44 (0) 131 14513092
Email:enquiries@abs.hw.ac.uk, Web: ebsglobal.net
If you still don’t know how to start, I may be able to answer one or two questions: 09-4801415, 08045081919, 08033764520
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