However, in my mind, there are many posts coming and going, i am doing something, and i start preparing the next post, but it never reaches the keyboard. I feel the time just slipping like water through my fingers without anything effective being done.
But the topic of this post is not a new topic, i wanted to write about it for a long time now. It is not affecting me only, it is affecting all libyan students and graduates trying to get admitted to good universities abroad.
Especially those fields which does not require an exam to enter a University such as Science, Engineering or Law, you apply, do your language exam, send your transcripts, your graduation Certificate, and if you are very lucky your are amongst the ones who got over 80% at your graduation. Although i doubt that there are lots of libyans students who get this high scores. And this is the point. The way of grading the students in Libya is really more than unfair. I have taken graduate courses here in Canada, and i was very surprised at the grades they are giving, without being close to perfect your just get an A which is a very good. And it was not just any university or any course, but there in Libya, the professors are enjoying having the power to push the students down. to show them how powerful they are. this takes the chance from so many students abroad who are trying to get admitted at universities. Since the lowest grade acceptable here is 75%, and if you have this 75% and there are 5000 students applying, with only 300 positions available, who will look at your 75% if there are 3000 with more than 85%.
Here if they see that you are doing an effort, working, researching, thinking they will give you a good grade, but there, you can kill yourself learning, working, reading, it will not help.
Oh God, everyone of us will remember his professors, which are alone far from being perfect, and i doubt that one of them will be able to answer the exam questions in the short time they are giving us, oh, if they are kind, it is an open book exam, and then forget about trying to answer at all. Or the other professor who missed 95% of his lectures that semester, and only gave us 2, and then at the end he did only one exam, with all the subjects there the time was not even enough if it was the double and laughed and said "inshalla ennaja7kom""
Oh, good, i know so many students here trying to get access, and they are not able because of the low grades, and i am thinking 7asby Allah wa ne3m al wakeel on everyone who was putting his students down for fun, just to feel his power, on every professor who didn't care to do his job and at the end gave his students bad marks, in stead of encouraging your students your just kill every chance for them to enhance their selves.
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Education in Libya
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What you say is true regarding grading in Libya, my sister was a top student at College of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo Egypt, her professor would not give her A because she is a Libyan.
You have a point but you give me an honest opinion about education in Libya is it up to the level in Canada. Getting to a university is even hard for American student, my daughter who was in 9th grade she was already going to career events, the high school prepares its student how to pass SAT, write resumes and etc.......
I don't think that getting into a good university is easy, while i have the problem of having limited choices due to the location, others can send out several applications all across a country and go where they get admitted, i am settled down and have only 2 choices, but due to a long distance, i limited it to 1.
I don't get an interview, neither an exam in my specialization, so, the only thing that is giving a picture about me is my transcript, and when you never get an A, you are not considered as a good student, while in libya, getting an A is a wonder.
However, i studied for 3 semester with graduate courses, which were taught to Master and Doctor students, and i didn't feel that i am behind a lot, i was out of university for 3 years, and i missed some new updates, i am lagging in some subjects, because the program i was in was a joined program between two disciplines, and i studied only one of them, but nevertheless, i managed to pass all the courses with a regular workload, without bigger troubles.
The other thing that was missing in libya is being used to writing real research papers and giving 20 min presentations which is here a must in every grad course. I had to learn how to do that.
Thank you for responding, I really do wish you or any Libyan student the best in achieving his/her goals. I was just listening to this song and I remembered that you live in Canada, hope you enjoy this song as I did.
Please do keep on blogging even once a month.
فيروز - بيت صغير في كندا
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It is so nice to read a blog from a Libyan. I've been from Libya for almost two years before the war broke out.
Sorry to say but you have a very low standard of education in Libya. Firstly, the international language. Try to learn first the International Language which is English, if you really want to be globally competitive. It should be taught in school in the early years of a child's education so that he would grow up accustomed already with the language.
And secondly, the Professional Regulations. Your government should impose a standardized Professional Regulation Commission who will monitor all the professionals, licenses etc because I have observed that a non medically trained/educated individual can be promoted as a medical staff. They should wake up! Dealing with people's lives should not be entrusted to a blind medical worker.
On the brighter side, I appreciated your government's effort of sending young professionals abroad to be trained and educated enabling them to share learning to their countrymen.
I hope and pray for the end of war in your country. I wish peace to each and everyone in Libya.
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