NLN Correspondent, KATHMANDU: The lure of European degree has left many Nepali students stranded in the Netherlands. The Dutch university (DDU) and a kathmandu-based educational consultancy, Softwarica, allegedly fed them wrong information which has been in trouble in a foreign country.
Though no data is available, a student recruiting agent in Kathmandu said an estimated 70 Nepali students are currently studying at DDU, The Kathmandu Post reported. The latter is offering them free air tickets home and an option for an online degree in Nepal after amassing thousands of Euros as six months’ tuition fees and insurance.
Prakash Timilsina, a student originally from panauti, told the post by phone that dozens of student who came to the university with dreams of quality higher education have been cheated.
Timilsina said he saw an advert in a newspaper that lured him to the Netherlands. Hundred of students attended a seminar at a star hotel in kathmandu on September 2, 2004 where they were told about Dutch work- study programs.
They thought this was a wonderful opportunity for them to grab an European degree. “Mr Deelstra (President of DDU) had also attended the seminar and assured us that everything was very easy in the Netherlands. He told us that we could work three hours a day,” Timilsina told the post. Each student paid 4,050 to 6,000 euros, which covered 6 months’ tuition fee, insurance and a residence permit. But once they landed at the university, they were told that they could work only 10 hours a week. Now, they don’t have money to make the rest of the installing payments. Returning to Nepal without a degree seems=
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