Thursday, October 22, 2015

 

Netherlands : MBA scholarship through Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP)

scholarship for internationals students in MBA
http://www.bsn.eu/internationalmba/netherlands-fellowship-programme/netherlands-fellowship-programme.html

MBA Scholarship

The funding for this MBA Scholarship, better known as the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP), is made available through Nuffic the Governmental body responsible for the promotion of the Dutch Higher Education system worldwide.

NFP is a full (100%) MBA Scholarship programme designed to foster institutional development within certain parts of the world. Applicants to certain academic and short courses of Dutch higher education institutions apply for the fellowship to cover the cost of tuition fees, accommodation and international travel for study.

This MBA Scholarship is made available through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for more infomartion please visit Netherlands Fellowship Programme - Official page.

The eligible countries
Currently International MBA candidates from within the following countries are eligible to apply for funding through the Dutch Embassy or Consulate within their country.

Bangladesh is Category I countries are priority countries a
https://www.studyinholland.nl/scholarships/highlighted-scholarships/netherlands-fellowship-programmes/nfp-country-list
Immigration Laws

Dutch immigration laws may prove very attractive to international students who are looking to study in Europe. International students are granted a one-year search visa after completion of their program in order to look for a job in the country. Once they find a job, their employers can file for a residence permit on their behalf as a kennismigrant (literally ‘knowledge migrant’).

Commuter bicycles

Cycling is the most efficient and the safest method of transportation in the Netherlands. Commuter bicycles are embedded in the Dutch approach to life as it is both sustainable and healthy. Bicycles are used on a daily basis as the government has developed country-wide infrastructure that encourages people to cycle and guarantees their safety while doing so. make it a bicycle day, no car only rickshaws.

The Netherlands is home to many large transnational organizations such as Philips, Unilever, Shell, Akzo and KLM.Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals.

This article is sponsored by Nyenrode Business Universiteit

Nyenrode MBA is more than just “A Degree°”

Getting your MBA at Nyenrode is a 360° journey of discovering your personal authentic leadership, entrepreneurship and stewardship capabilities. It stretches far beyond obtaining a diploma.

http://nyenrode.nl/Education/MBA/IMBA/Pages/Default.aspx

Tuition fee: € 34,500 (for applications received after May 1st, 2016)

A little less costly in Hague Uni €17,750 as a one-off payment or
€17,900 in instalments.
http://www.thehagueuniversity.com/master-studies/master-degree-programmes/master-of-business-administration/general

private uni cost not mentioned
http://www.amsterdam.uibs.org/graduate_master_business_studies.html

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

 

subjectwise study and career information for students of Bangladesh

Life carnival - an informative site for Bangladeshi students audience. It provides subjectwise overview including availabilty in differnet Bangladeshi public and private universities, job opportunities, interveiws with relevant faculty and professional to give insight of hte job. Really good work.
http://www.lifecarnival.com/


Collection of interviews of some BUET graduates pursuing higher studies in different western countries including USA, Germany, Australia,Canada etc. In the interview, they provide information on living cost, how to apply for scholarship, what are the benchmark by the professors for selecting students etc. Good initiative.
http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/cfc/misc/NotesFromAlumni.PDF


common mistakes in recommendation letter
http://aegedu.com/blog/common-mistakes-indian-students-us-universities-recommendation-letter-part-1/

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Saturday, May 02, 2015

 

Career advice 2015 : Job search, higher study



Career Advice 2015
Options after graduation or any time :
Looking for a  job
Higher study in Bangladesh
Higher study abroad:Going abroad for a degree.
Starting a business.
Starting business after doing job for some years to gather inside information
Doing charitable work: social initiatives like setting up a NGO,do tablig with Tablig jamat, join politics

Trinity College Dublin has a good career site:
Kent University, UK has also an excellent career advice site for international students:

another good site

JOB exploration

Many graduate vacancies are open to graduates with degrees in any subject. However, finding out what other graduates in your subject are doing can be a good way of getting ideas. You'll find plenty of resources online to help you do it.
Options with your subjects - Prospect.ac.uk is a very good site that provide what options one has with a specific subject:
gradireland.com is similar to prospects

job websites:
Bangladesh first and highest visited jobsite is bdjobs.com. It has career resources like cv writing tips and samples, job specific advice,sample cvs. Bdjobs also conducts short training on relevant demanding subjects.
International job sites with job listing of many countries
Some job sites has country specific version or provide multi country job listing. For example, monster.com
For country specific job site, look into Alexa ranking of websites for a country. Usually the highly visited job site of that country comes up among the top ranked websites of the country. Generally highly visited site means it means provide good value or quality is high.
For example, rozee.pk comes up as no 51 in the Alexa ranking of websites for Pakistan.Further, rozee has sister sites for middle eastern coutries.
More on country specific career guide: country guides for
international students
This series offers practical advice to international students who
have chosen to return to their home country to look for work.
Each country guide includes key facts about current trends and
jobs, advice about seeking employment, hints and tips for
making a successful application, and helpful information
sources.
There are profiles for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong
Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore,
Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and the USA
For links to these profiles, see www.kent.ac.uk/careers
/sitesint.htm
GradLink country specific career websites
These careers websites are designed specifically for
students/graduates from China, India, Africa and
Malaysia at HE institutions right across the UK. They
include:
Careers for International Students http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/InternationalStudents.htm
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UK www.gradlinkuk.com online careers service for
international students and graduates studying across the
UK.
China www.gradlinkchina.com
India www.gradlinkindia.com
Malaysia www.gradlinkmalaysia.com
Africa www.gradlinkafrica.com
They contain
Graduate jobs-boards
Profiles of 100+ employers – where employers provide
latest graduate vacancies, give advice, link to their social
media etc.


Finding salary information: look into govt jobs circular as they mention salaries. Also international org like IUT, UN provides salary information in their ad. Besiders, there are some websites like glassdoor that provide salary information anonymously. Search in Google with keywords like salary survey,salary in unilver etc.


Networking or referral for job finding:
nearly 80 percent of the vacancies are filled up by referrals. So it is very important to find referral or do networking. And in networking weak tie has better chance to land you job. Because your strong tie has almost similar network like you or if they find definitely they would let you know about the job.

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Where do other graduates end up?

Prospects compiles an annual graduate destination survey, with useful information what graduates in each subject are doing six months after graduation.

Job market situation and current trends:
For USA, you may look into labour market survey by US Govt.
For other countries, look into different job and career sites like gradlink, prospects.ac.uk, targetjobs etc to obtain such job market scenario and current trends information. You may look into career segments  of prominent universities of a country to get such information though usually such information are not available there.

Higher study

First hand information: collect first information from your friends, relatives, alumni who studied abroad for a specific institution or country.
Look for iutians studying abroad. There is a yahoo group of IUTIANS. Become a member and search relevant posting or ask for information:

Almost all major universities where Bangladeshi students go, you will find Bangladeshi students association. The office bearers of such association would be very helpful. You may look into club and society page of the university to find such association or just search in Google. Besides, there are Islamic societies in most major universities. You may contact with them too.

GRE Center Bangladesh runs a very good website that contains information about GRE ,TOEFL ,IELTS preparation, contacting with professors, scholarships and all major aspects of higher study venture. It is a must read. By the by, the site is in Bangla, so those who cant read Bangla may use google translator.

Blog has now a days loads of personal experience regarding studying abroad. You may check in somewhereinblog. Ragib Hasan, now a faculty member in USA, has some very good write-ups on higher study USA, writing statement of purpose etc. You may find his write-ups in somewhereinblog. Further, he has published a few books on how to research, self development, mathemetics. You may collect those books through rokomari.com where payment could be made upon delivery. Now you could use Unicode bangle search in Google. To write bangle you may use Ovro which you could write Bangla in English letters and it converts it to Unicode bangle.

Scholarship information:
Collect information from Alumni.
Go to different countries embassies , prefereably their cultural or educational wing to know about different options. For example, British council, Gothe institute for Germany, EMK centre for usa etc.

Phd and masters studentship(scholarships) in UK and Irealnd information:

Scholarships in Ireland
country specific scholarship information:
South Korea scholarship
scholarships in UK and Ireland

Some good Bangladesh based websites for higher study information



Private consultancy firms : you may contact with them for information. However, get information about their authencity before going. In generally, if an agency posts advertisement frequently in newspapers or social media, it may be assumed that they may have reasonably good information and capability. Also lok intor their websties before consulting them.

Scandanevian
>>> 
Steps
They are the best for Sweden
– ELTS Requirement: 6.5
– No IELTS for BUET, NSU, East West, AIUB, Southeast and some other University for PG
– No IELTS for ‘A’ Levels and ‘O’ Level Students

STEPS
Syed Grand Centre (7th Floor),
Plot: 89, Road: 28, Sector: 7
Uttara, Dhaka
Bangladesh
Telephone Number: +88 028922993
E-mail Address: info@steps.com.bd
Website URL: http://www.steps.com.bd
http://www.guidebd.com/education/consulting/steps-consultancy-organization/

@thier website is very good. It provides information like why study in korea.

For Scandenevian SA Associate is also good

Australia
>> 
Edu aid
Very good site with easy to use questin and answer for each countries.

Canada,UK,Malaysia,Germany
>>> 
BSB Global
@it has a detailed downloadable informatin guide that contains corses of different countries with relevant information.


Links of some consultancy firms
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Writing CV, Forwarding letters and sample CV, forwarding letters

Good samples and guidelines are provided for writing CV and forwarding letter in bdjobs.com:
You may also look into tcd career site, Kent career site, quintcareerrs.com for such guideelines and samples of CV and forwarding letters. Further, these sites also provide tips on answering interview questions.
Transferrable skills (i.e. Soft skills):
Involve in clubs, societies, sports, volunteering and gather some important transferrable skills.

Experience Gathering:
Experience is very important to the employers as these would say that you could do the work properly.
May go for paid or unpaid internship
May volunteer a relevant organisaiton
Arrange one day job exploration tour by paying money or free



It’s a very good career advice site.

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Monday, March 16, 2015

 

Part time work or job regulation in Belgium,France and Germany for Non EU(i.e.Bangladesh)students




Belgium
Foreign students coming from a country outside the European Economic Area must follow an approved course of education in Belgium and be in possession of a valid residence permit.  During the Christmas, Easter and summer college holidays, they are exempt from the requirement to possess a work permit.  If they want to work outside these college holiday periods, they must have a type C work permit.

France
International students have the right to work while studying in France as long as they are enrolled in an institution that participates in the national student health-care plan. Students who are not nationals of EU member countries must also hold a valid residency permit. The right to work applies to all students, inlcuding those who are in France for the first time, those who are enrolled in the first year of a university program, and those who are enrolled full-time in a language school.
The law allows students to work 964 hours in a given year, which corresponds to 60% of full-time employment for the year. Remember that you can't expect to meet all of your expenses by working part-time, so you must have other means of support.
France has a national minimum hourly wage, known as the SMIC. The SMIC presently stands at € 9,61 gross per hour worked since january 1, 2015, before mandatory withholding for social benefits. Withholding reduces the worker's net wage by about 20%.
You are no longer required to obtain temporary employment authorization (APT, Autorisation Provisoire de Travail) in order to work part-time while enrolled. (Exception: Algerian students are still covered by the Franco-Algerian agreement of December 27, 1968.)

Germany
If you come from a Non EU country, then you may work 120 full days or 240 half days per year. If you take a job as a student assistant or research assistant at the university, it’s usually no problem to exceed the 120-day limit. However, you are obliged to inform the Alien Registration Office if you do.
The employment laws pertaining to international students are very stringent. If you violate them, you could be expelled from the country!
if you come from a non-EU country the amount of time you are allowed to work is limited to 90 days per year with 8 hour working days, or 180 half days per year. In some federal states, you are only allowed to work during vacation. Contrastingly those coming from within the EU have the same free access to the labour market as German students do.






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