Dreams turn sour for students in Northern Cyprus

[Mowgli597]

Debt misery hits students as dream turns sour in northern Cyprus

[Cally]

Won't bode well for the reputation of the North

[waddo]

Typical BBC reporting when there is little news! Don't miss the fact that all these students come here via their "agents" in this country. Don't blame the TRNC for the lies they have been told either. What was this nonsense that they could only earn $1000 per month doing cleaning and cooking - that works out to over 5300TL a month which is around 2000TL greater than minimum wage! Just where do the BBC get there "Facts" from I wonder?

[Deniz1]

Plus the side money they make selling drugs

[waddo]

Selling drugs? What, all 23,000 of them are making money selling drugs - who to?

[sophie]

I feel sorry for many of the students who cannot even get results of their exams because they don't have the money to give the college to obtain the envelope they should be handed. One of the people who helps clean our pool was in this position for months. He was being subsidised by his home government and the money stopped overnight without any warning at all. He is aware of many like him. However, I also know students whose parents and other relatives who are very well off in their country of origin and have the best of everything here. But they are certainly in the minority.

[EnjoyingTheSun]

Eventually the penny will drop that you will get longer term economic prosperity when you act fairly and transparently to people rather than this short termism that seems to be prevalant.
They seem to be more interested in clipping people for a few hundred pounds as a one-off than building a term term business relationship that may earn them thousands in the future. Any business deal has to be beneficial to both parties if it is to have a future.

[Mowgli597]

Plus the side money they make selling drugs

That’s unfair. You might as well say all Brit immigrants are drunken rowdies who go to the buffet meals in the various hotels/casinos, stuff themselves and handbags with food, and load up their tables with drink before the cut-off time for the meal.

Oh! They do

[johnerebus]

(Deniz1 wrote:
Plus the side money they make selling drugs)

Would it be more accurate to give evidence of your accusation rather than an extremely prejudicial and biased opinion?

BTW if you are in touch and know the right people would you point me in their direction please so I can buy?

[Deniz1]

Its often reported in the newspapers when they are arrested. Obviously not all of them do.

[Ragged Robin]

"For many people like her, Northern Cyprus was not really about education, but about a promise of a chance to work in Europe and forge a better life for her and her family. And that is not happening."

That is so true. And , unfortunately , it is not only students who come to North Cyprus with unrealistic expectations without doing their "homework" to find out what the country is really like, and understanding the background and politically fuelled disadvantages.

Will someone please tell me where those "palm fringed beaches" are?

Conversely, when I was teaching at University , many of the students had inadequate basic education for University Entance (at least by British Standards) and expected their rich fathers to be able to buy them qualifications.

[David]

The Jewel in the Med

[thickey]

Does this not sound like the property boom of 12 14 years ago with everybody becoming a builder and the promise of great retirement homes for the future . now we have universities popping up all over the place educating tens of thousands of people with the promise of great Futures

[EnjoyingTheSun]

Does this not sound like the property boom of 12 14 years ago with everybody becoming a builder and the promise of great retirement homes for the future . now we have universities popping up all over the place educating tens of thousands of people with the promise of great Futures

Same with casinos and hotels. They are masters at over supplying a demand.

[sophie]

When I see a sign on the road side announcing yet another University to be built, it does make me wonder just where all the Professors come from, what their qualifications are, or is it a case of the blind leading the blind.