Scholarships in Netherlands by Joshua

so i would like to welcome each one of you to our meeting today and we are going to record so i hope you people have no problem and you are live on facebook and welcome each one of you thank you for coming thank you for keeping time and thank you for being here so i am going to ask everybody to mute their microphone miley milly kindly mute your microphone so my name is bilhah anybody i am sure all of you know me my name is bilhah from the internet i have a number of groups that i i guide and my passion and the the one i love most is true north and basically true north we just talk about uh education how we can help each other and especially kenyans in kenyans i mean how to help kenyans and africans this is about africans this is about helping each other this is about doing farming something for our very own doing something for our very own so today without much ado i want to introduce our guests and our guest is called joshua i've known joshua for the last how many years joshua six i i met joshua for the first time at a university here we actually came the same time and we have kept our our friendship and it is growing from rips and bounds we like supporting each other one of the things i like about joshua is that he also is into into helping the community and that's why i thought wow this is a person who can also help us to because i've been telling you these things but when you hear from other people i think it's more it sits well and for those who are who didn't start with me i had just said when you don't sacrifice for this for the thing that you want that thing that you won't become the sacrifice so in life you are always sacrificing so it's good to sacrifice for this one you have to sacrifice time money and also sometimes confusion sometimes you get confused and this is where i come in so don't give up the worst you can do is to give up so i encourage you not to give up i encourage you to to to send me your questions and if i don't answer let me tell you i'm one of those people i can take even two days depending with my work schedule but i make sure there is a day i usually set aside for for replying to people and feel very welcome each one of you so i don't want to take a lot of time because our guest came quite early so what you're going to do in fact it's like uh today is going to be joshua is going to introduce himself of course and he's going to talk about scholarships how he came here himself how one can apply for those scholarships what are the requirements and then you people will have time to ask him questions i'm talking about that so that if you don't have your questions written down you can write them so welcome muhashimiwa i call him hashimiwa he's going to tell you why i call him where she viewer so where she was welcome to our meeting thank you very much um [Music] thanks for the nice introduction and uh i'm happy to be in this platform and have a conversation with uh with you guys and uh maybe inspire you to push your agenda to study abroad uh one day and um [Music] um yeah it's it's it's not look at science it's possible but you have to drive yourself from that i made a very short presentation um uh to guide you through uh because first i want to inspire you and then also then make uh try to talk about education and scholarship in the netherlands where i have the experience in and particularly i will focus uh at vahrehvah university because most of the universities in the netherlands have same uh same or similar system of application and how they go about it and they all focus on specific scholarships which are really competitive for that matter so i'll share my my screen my presentation ah um bilhah could you give me a hosting uh co-hosting uh right yeah sorry let me do that okay you can share now very nice good uh start one can you all see my screen yes put it in the presentation mode and i'll try to shift is it on the presentation mode no not it now now it is very nice um wait which just a second i need to do some because i need to look at the camera yeah i'll stop sharing and i'll shift my and by the way we really like your background the sea my goodness you're looking like you're in where did my dives [Music] well i'm actually i'm actually in the coaster which part of coast are you i mean south coast at the moment wow perfect looking nice uh just a second i fixed my problem here [Music] why is stacy i'm not stacy sorry triciana i'm starting sharing my screen so okay um nicer and can you see the full screen you are not yet on on on slideshow mode okay one minute i think it's shifting on the other i'm using two screens so i'm having a little bit of trouble so what i'll do is to remove the other screen okay and i will uh come back to the zoo meeting and share my screen and that's my screen and then say share and oh can you see it no yeah perfect okay very good so so so again um i i give my title uh studying abroad just to inspire you a little bit about what what you need to do before you think about uh studying abroad so it's a very short presentation and i hope it will be an interactive session i hope to take um at least 10-15 minutes for this presentation and then we can have an introduction session uh later on to make sure that we can all be on the same on the same boat yeah so as as billy has said my name is joshua and uh i was born and lays in yanderewa that is in the central part of kenya and i'm passionate in in tourism or sustainable tourism development and nature conservation i'm currently a phd student at marine animal ecology group and this is in wahining university in the netherlands and i'm looking into the societal impacts of coral reef restoration in shimoni and that is kenya or south coast of kenya where i am currently i'm conducting my my research um as bill has said i also hold a master's of degrees in tourism society environment and this is from wahaningen university where we met with bill sorry just right okay yeah i'm there um yeah and and before going to the netherlands i i worked in the field of tourism conservation education uh with a organization like nature kenya and all project of conservancy in lakibia and i also hold a bachelor's degrees in tourism management from more universities in elderly yeah i i think for me i i i want to really inspire you with something uh if you really want first you can go study abroad but what do you need for us to do you must dare to dream and if you dare to dream you have to make a good plan ahead of that good dream you got to engage you got to motivate and you got to inspire yourself because only that way you can be able to achieve that dream that you want to achieve you have to build a very nice strategic network that helps you to plan helps you to inspire you uh towards that specific goal that you do what you want to achieve along the way you've got to expect some waves and waves i mean challenges and these challenges you have to be able to um to to to determine or to be able to overcome them in the right way and using the right channel and of course what do you mean by daring to dream you must be able to define your path of your journey because i always say it is your journey and it is not our journey it can be our journey but i would say it is nice you for it your journey so that you can be able to know which track you need to use which pace you need to take um how you're supposed to be informed uh yourself of what you require being able to understand what you might encounter along the way and as i said being able to make a very nice plan and most important to keep the track of your plan that is you plan you only plan you retract again and being able to move your time because not always uh it is not always when you have to make good plans that are achieved sometimes you have to make sure that you can change the plans while appropriate um what do i mean by inspiring yourself you must be able to inspire yourself by being able to welcome new learning culture because when you think about going abroad it means starting to get to integrate with different cultures so you must be able to ask yourself are you able to integrate with this culture and if you're not able what are you doing or planning to make sure that you can be able or you are ahead of step to learn new culture integrate with new cultures it is also important as i mentioned [Music] you have to have a norm of motivating yourself and the reason why you have to motivate yourself and i use that picture of the owl the owl is very active at night and i hope you don't have a bad omen or about the owl i use it all because i love birds it's my nature and uh to me it's an inspiring thing because it's it is active at night and it survives so you as a person you also being that out what do you think about the night what do you think about tomorrow how do you cultivate a positive energy even when you have a frustrating moment in in life in looking for career opportunity in looking for a scholarship opportunity then it is very important you have to be open to learn you got to be open to learn because it is only when you are open to learn that you are able to appreciate um appreciate feedback from people appreciate guidance appreciate um um opportunity that comes along to you and that's how you you you have to do it and you can only do this by being open and then i mentioned that you need to build a strategic network what i do i mean by building a strategic a strategic [Music] network you want to build a professional career through the academic life um my experience in the netherlands is that a network is one of the most important thing and i think it's the same thing also here in kenya anywhere you go you need good network with people uh so that you can be able to achieve that what you want so one you need to build a relevant and a strategic network number two you also don't need to be a stranger but today we are meeting in this platform we are meeting in this forum tomorrow when we meet in another forum let me not be a stranger to you because we already met in this platform so by saying not being a stranger it means recognize yourself as a person who you met the other person and in where forum that in which forum you did meet then i would want to dive into into education and scholarship in the netherlands um it's a very comprehensive process but i want to make it very um very short and very brief in a very simplified way and i use this picture uh in one of the main building in bahrain university we call it forum and it is called forum because this is a place where you come and gather knowledge this it's like the central point where most of the students have to pass through whenever they are at advancing in university what does it require you to be or to be in this university or in another university within netherlands you must be able to understand what program you want to to to to do and i'll use are used by anyone website to demonstrate how you need to navigate ways on how to know what is being offered where and what is not offered where i will stop sharing this screen and i will go to wiring university website so i'll stop this so and then [Music] i'll also stop wait i'll stop the presentation and then i'll minimize it then finally i will go to sharing the screen and here i'll share the website of bahanian university and with this website you have to understand [Music] what you want to do or what you want to study and you only do that by being a friend of the website of the university that you choose to go study it is not the only it's not only by hearing and that you can go to study because probably what you want to specialize is being given in another university maybe utrecht university amsterdam university rotterdam university or even another university property within europe either in uk or whatever so it is very simple first you need to understand what you want to study in wahingan university has provided a lot of information through its website and it is very clear it is very easy to navigate i believe all of you who are in this platform want to study the master's program so what is the first step you need to know it is first to identify the university that you want to study or even first it is to identify what is my background as a scholar maybe your background is environmental science maybe your background is in tourism maybe your background is in communication science your background is probably in engineer what does wahine can do for you to simplify your search it rests all of its program that you can study if you want to be admitted in wahhaningen university and it does that by putting all the programs that are offered at vaheningen university and there you are don't worry about the the noise from the roof those are monkeys jumping over so vahenygan provides a list of its masters program that it does over so and one of the beautiful thing is that um when this website crops up there are people you can contact directly so this is a beginning of the first stage where you can list and see what study do you want focus on a good example is myself i did my masters in tourism society and environment so you simply have to click this that drink and check whether does it is it compatible with what you are looking for is it this what inspire you to what your career expectation because every study program have different aspects it has different specialty which they call them of the fourth trajectory that focuses on tourism and develop do you want to focus on tourism and development you want to focus on tourism and nature resource do you want to focus on tourism and robot challenges are changes you want to focus on tourism and experiences so you have to orient yourself to know what program do i want then the most the other most important thing you want to orient yourself is to understand how is the application process done um and then the beautiful thing to simplify your time every program have a a video clip explaining or different different student giving their experiences a good example is like this this script here you can click this uh let alone and see what is offered and you will see my face as well there because i also spoke about this program and how it inspired me in my career and how it can inspire you as a student if you choose to go uh study tourism society environment in the university the next step you need to know is how can i apply for this program and what are the requirement so you have to come to the admission requirement and application procedures and this is for this program different programs have different different programs have different application requirements however there is a generic requirement that are needed for any program admission at rahelman university and we can see there that the general requirement for this program it need you to have a bachelor's degrees of specific field it needs you to have sufficient uh grading which is equivalent to that which is equivalent to dutch system which is equivalent to the either u.s system or uk system in kenya we use uk system which is you need to have a second upper division for your bachelor's if you do not have that unfortunately it would be a little bit challenging to get admitted in the university so if you are now doing your studies at your bachelor level please make sure you try to get or score at least second class upper division you also need to speak in english both in written and spoken one of the requirement that is now official is that even if you are coming from an english speaking language the wahiningen university has listed only a few only few countries but the rest of the countries from across the group you have to provide an english test showing that you can be able to study in virginia and you have to submit that i know that is one of the challenge with many students because it is also very costly to acquire this energy certificate but the good thing with it it lasts you for i think almost two years before you can sit for another english test so as early as possible if you dream to study abroad please look for different platform that offer this test and get the right checks that is the cell or any other sort of english test then of course you need to understand there are different categories of students there are those dutch students who are native there are those european union [Music] non-european union so you need to understand that you follow under this track so that you get to understand what are those procedures that you need to follow and i i think very hard was mentioning something that it need a lot of patience they need a lot of time for you to um to to move toward that direction because and that is the point i said that you need to dare to dream it is only when you dare to dream and when you inspire yourself then you are able to get that um that scholarship and i'll come back to talk about my then what is the animation root the animation root for this you have to there are different uh way of doing it but it's quite simple uh which i don't need to go through it but the most generic one and i want to minimize this a little bit and bring it a little down here and then masters program how to apply there are now you can only apply most of these masters you have to apply via a platform called student link or stuttering the stuttering is it's it's a universal platform where all the netherlands universities you can apply through and you have to upload all the documents that are required and it is quite simple these are the the the animation requirements that you need i just mentioned them or any previous skills or knowledge that you have it is also very important to know the deadlines of your program there are different programs that start either in september or in february and then there is a process of how to apply and so on for you to study in the netherlands you must get or to get a scholarship you must first be admitted in a university in the netherlands and then after that after you got the animation there is change in the scholarship application whereby you have to be nominated by the university that you can apply for certain scholarship this is a case for the netherlands and this is a case for many universities i am not aware of other universities other universities do not require that or other countries do not require that some of the countries have government government partnership whereby the government will front the application and you would apply and within the the ministry of education or something you are your your uh your your your application would be would be short suited from there but for one hunting and university you need to be admitted and then you'll be nominated it is only when you are admitted to study for a certain program and you are then invited to do or to apply for a scholarship and what kind of scholarship are you nominated so i go to the next page uh or the next webpage show you different scholarships that you can get from bahrain university there are various scholarships that attracts talented international students to the so-called international classroom and here they are and they come with different rules they come to different requirements and they come with different targets of countries so you will find that this african scholarship program it is only threatening the african countries and it is only available for only few countries so you can read more here and get to know which countries focus the good news is that kenya is included in this program among the seven countries in in in africa then there is another scholarship called anfanden fund this is also another scholarship it also comes with uh its with its requirement there is also another program called wageningen university fellowship program but the most common one the most common one and the one most of the students from kenya have gone through or using is orange knowledge program this is a very prestigious program actually which we went through myself and building and many other kenyans you have to look for deadlines and you have to look for the requirement for you to be able to achieve this it will require patience i never got it straight away when i did my application i applied the first time i got admitted to the virginian university but i never got the scholarship i never i never got it but i replied for that time it is only at that time i only got the scholarship the full scholarship so what am i trying to say it's simple you cannot try fast and you don't get it but that should not demotivate you it should encourage you to move on and try again because you have dared their dream you have to inspire yourself as a person to achieve that what you want to achieve how can you get help for each program that you want to study in waihengen university in in every program that you you click on it let's say i will take an example of aquaculture marine resource management which i spoke by some of the students who are doing their must their master thesis season under my phd when you open that masters program there are people you can contact directly and these people are prompt in responding to your questions they're very quick apart from that there are master days master day open open days they are held online which you can enroll yourself they are always happening uh different seasons you can always enlarge yourself it is usually free and you can attend depending on the program that you want to learn apart from that you can also engage with students themselves like students who are already doing those programs in in in in the current uh like current academic year here they don't have a student but they have a student advisor if i was to go to a different program let me take like um wait a minute let me go back um let's say a program like um which i remember bill how you did a course on life science is it here let me check yeah it's the third one oh here if you want to still did something on communication health and life science if you open that it gives you again the contact person there she will answer your questions if you have i think we have removed the student option and you can learn so many things specialization communication innovation and so on uh joshua for that one for the student i discovered they have put them on study link ah study link yeah okay very good then that's a different platform yeah but if if you are from kenya waihengen university has also provided a platform for international representatives and this is the page i'm going next and what does it mean to be an international representative it means you've had an opportunity to study or go through the education system in the netherlands and the university have trust in you that you have all that it takes to advise any prospective student on the needs and the requirements and the process of successfully being admitted i do not have the right to admit you but i have the right to guide you through and advise you appropriately on how you can find yourself by giving you the right information and how can you get me there are different representatives from different countries and from different regions they are china ghana and so on and here i am joshua if you need to contact me in future you can already click my name there joshua and it will open up to a page and there you are that's my personal number uh only for this paper if you want to send any email you can already come here and say contact and when you click contact it will open a small form where you can put your name your email address the question ask your question and then accept that that you agree that personal uh agreed to use my personal terms and everything and then you send and this will come automatically my email address and i will be able to answer your question or advice you appropriately at any given time so it's through wahering university website you can be able to see many scholarship opportunities that you can apply to or you would be invited however there are other platforms that you can just simply come like here and one of the obvious you can just type and say uh if you're looking for scholarship you would say you can type here and say scholarship scholarships for masters in the netherlands if you are country specific you can say in europe uh you can say in the netherlands or whatever so then you can start you can click there for a search and it will give you different it will give you different options where you can open and look and see what is there the best platform for scholarship in the netherlands is called study in horror so if you click this platform it will bring you to this platform here and it tells you everything about dutch education the finances pray to stay and so on this is because you said you want to study in the netherlands so you can read a lot about different scholarship uh different aspect and so on it gives you an outline of different institution where you are supposed to apply uh as you can see vaheningen is listed there and many other things so there's different way of looking for scholarship and the simplest one is just going internet make a search if you do not have a specific university that you want to study for how can you position yourself to study uh in in the netherlands you need to identify at least three universities and you can do a comparison a comparative between those universities say oh why do i want to study in bahrain again is it inspiring because i'm telling you that story is it because it is offering certain program that fits your your line of profession uh is it utrecht university because you have a certain line of program so you can choose you can get to understand by being inspiring yourself or inspiring yourself to make sure that you understand what you need because a lot of universities across across the world they put a lot of information in the in their website so i think that is a simple way of guiding you through and how to navigate through different websites they have this almost similar forums they have almost similar way of passing this information some of university websites are very complex but you need to have that patient to dig deep out of this information i hope this is very helpful for you and i want to add my presentation [Music] there by say [Music] thank you and those are my contact details also uh joshua dot nl and if you want to look for me in the linkedin i'm joshua and if you want follow me on facebook i'm joshua as well so i'm straightforward with my names and there is no funny names yeah so thank you very much and um happy to answer your question if anything well maybe before i open the floor for questions thank you joshua very much you're very detailed and i'm so happy that you've you very detailed yet you've made it very simple and i like that because the different people have come to these platforms and of course they have given their ideas which are very very good and everybody is so welcome so thank you thank you i've also benefited yeah there is no edge to learning it's very interesting that i'm here and yet i've learned one of two things so thank you very much so i'm welcoming yeah yes i'm going to open the floor for questions like i have said we are going to end at exactly maybe well it depends let's see let's be let's be okay also let's give time for people but we have about nine minutes so within those nine minutes let's see how many questions we can tackle and it's going to be democratic if you people can go for another 10 minutes i'm open for that so via you have questions i know that let's start with you uh please admit okay a minute a minute so deborah mili and stacy and those that are on facebook those that are streaming live if you have questions i'll also be checking on facebook for any question that may be coming so that we don't lose anyone so i don't have any question on facebook so i'm going to let why are you are you ready viola we can also do a pokemon a popcorn style of questions anyone can ask questions rather than maybe i think i also like popcorn style yeah i think that's also okay just pop up your question if you have any if you need any clarification yeah yeah anybody the question just go on ahead just pop up the question most of the questions have been answered but i just i'm just insisting on those links okay nice yeah i will send those ones okay and nice to meet you perfect stacy or deborah anybody else maybe everything was very clear by the way you're very clear but it's always good to give it's always good to give chance for questions because yeah people have a number of questions yeah so can i assume we don't have a question stacy are you there about um the d-a-a-d scholarships are they for germany yeah yeah so so it's good to know that every country or every government has their um they have different offers of different scholarships so you must be able to understand or know which scholarship or which country you want to study so you cannot go applying for um if you are targeting daddy then you have to look for a university in germany because daddy can only give scholarship for people who want to go and study in german so that is also very important another thing is when you think about commonwealth scholarship uh it gives it's a scholarship that is given to a student who are originating from member countries of the commonwealth so kenya is one of it so you can look at you can look at different universities that are offering uh opportunities and you can apply and they are it's a big pool of universities so specific scholarships are for specific countries for certain target groups yeah stacy over to you yes i have a question and for instance for me i applied at breda university and then i asked them if they have scholarships they offer scholarships and in that page i saw the orange knowledge program which was one of their scholarship but upon including this school they say that they don't have such scholarships is this a difference or in the school or is it me who didn't understand what they are saying because uh their scholarship is like it's a process and and i understand you cannot apply to a scholarship without them recommending you fast that's a good question yeah so the okp we call it okp it has it has um it has changed over time it used to be called norfolk netherlands fellowship program and now it's called knowledge or a knowledge program so one of the important one of the good thing to know is that because of also economic crisis across europe sometimes there is uh uncertainty of this scholarship however one of the critical point when you are applying for your uh application uh you have to make sure that in the study link make sure to mention or to tick a box that says you want fellowship or you want scholars uh or you want scholarship if you miss to do that there is an the system assumes you don't need that so it comes like an afterthought so if you miss to put or tick or include that you need scholarship or fellowship then that's why even when they are processing their applications they will never invite you or nominate you for a scholarship so that is very important so it is good to to look the application process very kindly and attention to detail okay okay yeah and does this and does these universities need uh initially deposit all of them like they do another country well yeah that's the procedure of uh every university immediately you one immediately you are if you are self-sponsored student immediately you are admitted and you are sponsoring yourself or the scholarship is sponsoring yourself then uh where you are involved as a person they give you uh a certain date before the academic year to deposit the tuition fee for scholarship it's very easy because you within the university the university have their scholarship office who are in charge of the scholarship management so if you are a student who have been admitted under the okp that list of the students who have been admitted is sent to the scholarship office within valhalla then there is a liarson officer within that department that lies with the organization that is offering that so there is for you if you have a school scholarship you don't have any problem to worry about things everything will be done for you so that's that's how it's done you never if it's a full scholarship um the university will always give you you are stepping in time and everything so and that's why properly you don't even you don't know whether they require that one but it is always done internally because universities have they know how to operate thank you yeah okay doki i guess uh i don't see anybody else and muting themselves to ask a question so i will assume deborah and miley are okay and i deborah do you have a question no i okay okay nice thank you people for coming again make sure you follow me on facebook i post this thing i think this is my third this is like my third on on scholarships abroad and like joshua has said you can email him and if you go to another university you follow the same procedure like he did for varane and there are many universities i have sent i will send you a list for the people who are here i'm going to send you a list of the universities here and you can go to their website the beauty about here unlike us you know like especially in kenya sometimes you don't know am i following a scam or am i following the real thing once you send an email just know you're okay the study link even can not be tampered with they have very high security security or care but of course if you get the wrong of course if you get the wrong link it can lead you astray and especially someone was telling me they have been asked for money even before they got uh admission that is automatically has come so just be careful and we are here to help you for wahhani and university and it's not rocket science i'm very happy that joshua said he got it with a third try i got it with the second try and right now joshua is doing his phd so you can see i mean it's doable me i believe if one person can get something why not me and um joshua i really like what you said when you are starting you have to have a strategic plan if you if you like something you have to plan to get it and be proactive so you must be very curious or maybe not sure which university you want to go to we can propose to you bahanian university or any other university um as as a personal i will advise you um [Music] look for a pool of three universities um in either across europe and because that is what you dream to go to and look at their requirements and then narrow down to which direction you want to so i'll give you a good example when i was looking for scholarship or not for scholarship but for master's program to study abroad i looked for three universities and i remember i did an elimination method i first looked at the university of kent uh in uk because they were offering a very nice master's program in conservation and tourism then i looked at bahrainian university because they were offering masters tourism societies and environment and then i looked into another program in uh it's under the erasmus program it's called european masters in tourism management so all of these programs they have opportunities of scholarship so then you look at which do you want to focus into what are the advantage what are the pro and the cons of certain university certain scholarship because you you cannot go trying every scholarship that you find on the platform no and then another thing engage directly with the university feel free to contact them feel free to ask many questions as possible don't shy out to engage with these people they are there to to to help you their health they are there to guide you and they are happy to answer all your questions so please motivate yourself and you can dream and it is possible it is not possible it is possible if you push yourself and you pushed want to achieve it so thank you very much bilhah i will leave it at there and then i hope to i hope the presentation was resourceful and uh looking forward to engage properly in the near future feel free to contact me if you want to study in and i'm happy to assist you and guide you in the right track yeah thank you very much i cannot say thank you enough i wish you were here i would have called you for coffee thank you very much maybe when i come back i will call you for coffee definitely we need to have a talk and for those in kenya you people are very lucky we didn't have anybody who was dating me and by then can i say goodbye yes can i said goodbye yeah yeah so see you guys and i leave you guys to continue with this conversation yeah perfect so guys before you go i just want to encourage you me i didn't have like me i wanted to go to vahagne because that's the only university i knew you people are lucky there are people who are willing to help you and so go for it please go for it the four of you who are here you are the people who needed to be here that's what i believe and i would be very happy because i have consistently seen viol stacy millie i will follow you and deborah let's see do you know how happy i will be to hear that one of you has been helped or two or three and remember i'm here to help you so i am going make sure you send me apart from via and stacy miley and deborah please send me your your number or send me yeah your number i think your number is good so that i can add you into our what's up group where i post a number of a number of scholarships and there are two maybe not today i won't lie on tuesday i'll send the list of universities and you can follow what joshua has said so bye bye for now we have kept time and you're going to keep time and thank you for coming and have a great evening enjoy the sun there's no sun thank you thank you thank you very much bye bye bye

2022-05-15 19:43

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