MASTER Degree

interior wrote:I am currently holding two degrees (MBA and MIT) from UK but none is them is from uk based universities. My question is can I get extention on the basis of MBA from uk based university as this will be my 3rd master degree but first from UK university. Please let me know as I am running out of time.

Angela Saini in the New Statesman wrote:A legal loophole ensures that as long as someone doesn't falsely claim to offer a UK-recognised qualification, he or she is relatively free to sell degrees

"The reputation of British higher education is suffering," says Professor Geoffrey Alderman. As a long-time adviser for universities and colleges, he has been pressing the government to clamp down on dodgy higher education providers in the UK, many of whom make millions by selling worthless degrees to innocent students.

Thousands of miles away in Kolkata, one such student, Sounak Halder, is struggling to repay a £5,000 debt. In 2006, he borrowed money to fund a Masters from a private college in London, supposedly awarded by the Irish International University. Only when he arrived at a grotty office in Shadwell, east London, did he realise his mistake. "I found the university had changed its website three times in three months," he says. Later he found no such university existed.

"Students from the developing world go back to their countries of origin and find they might as well paper their walls with the qualifications," says Alderman.

A legal loophole ensures that as long as someone doesn't falsely claim to offer a UK-recognised qualification, he or she is relatively free to sell degrees. Today's fake universities need little more than a glossy website. With fine words and affiliations to imaginary academic bodies, students may never realise their qualifications are not bona fide.

The IIU relies on backstreet colleges in London to provide the scant tuition needed to earn its qualifications. A one-year course at a British university can cost an overseas student around £10,000; the IIU charges £4,500. Unsurprisingly, thousands of students in the developing world leap at the chance to enrol for these cut-price degrees.

With few overheads, there is big money to be made. Preston University, Barbican University and the University of New Castle have all sprung up in the past decade, aided by the UK's lack of regulation. Local trading standards offices have been left to deal with the bogus colleges, even though the problem can be overwhelming in certain areas. Trading standards officers in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have identified at least 40 problem colleges, with new ones opening all the time.

Wanderer wrote:

interior wrote:I am currently holding two degrees (MBA and MIT) from UK but none is them is from uk based universities. My question is can I get extention on the basis of MBA from uk based university as this will be my 3rd master degree but first from UK university. Please let me know as I am running out of time.

To me, with my UKBA head on, this looks like there is no progression here, what use are three masters? Looks like an attempt to string out for 10 years legal stay ILR.

So I feel u'd have to convince the UKBA there is a benefit for u and ur career other than racking up for ILR.

pjoshi007 wrote:Hi

You can apply for an extension if u want to do Masters from a UK university. If its a reputed university then home office will not say NO. You can choose a diferent course in MBA this time something that will compliment what u have already done.

If u have followed all the rules and regulations being a student so far such as workingonly 20 hours a week and have proof ofwhat u have studied then hopefully u should be able to get an extension.

I was a student for 3 years beore I just changed to WP in UK.

Regards
Poonam

Wanderer wrote:

interior wrote:I am currently holding two degrees (MBA and MIT) from UK but none is them is from uk based universities. My question is can I get extention on the basis of MBA from uk based university as this will be my 3rd master degree but first from UK university. Please let me know as I am running out of time.

To me, with my UKBA head on, this looks like there is no progression here, what use are three masters? Looks like an attempt to string out for 10 years legal stay ILR.

So I feel u'd have to convince the UKBA there is a benefit for u and ur career other than racking up for ILR.

interior wrote:

Wanderer wrote:

interior wrote:I am currently holding two degrees (MBA and MIT) from UK but none is them is from uk based universities. My question is can I get extention on the basis of MBA from uk based university as this will be my 3rd master degree but first from UK university. Please let me know as I am running out of time.

To me, with my UKBA head on, this looks like there is no progression here, what use are three masters? Looks like an attempt to string out for 10 years legal stay ILR.

So I feel u'd have to convince the UKBA there is a benefit for u and ur career other than racking up for ILR.

I don't think so after living six 5 years in this country you can apply for ILR but anyway I realised now that without holiding UK based degree there is no prospect of getting good job, hence I want to get extention to study from UK based university.

rubbish wrote:

Wanderer wrote:

rubbish wrote:I am currently holding two degrees (MBA and MIT) from UK but none is them is from uk based universities. My question is can I get extention on the basis of MBA from uk based university as this will be my 3rd master degree but first from UK university. Please let me know as I am running out of time.

To me, with my UKBA head on, this looks like there is no progression here, what use are three masters? Looks like an attempt to string out for 10 years legal stay ILR.

So I feel u'd have to convince the UKBA there is a benefit for u and ur career other than racking up for ILR.

Many Thanks for your reply, as I am not even thinking to stay after my degree as I already applied for job in Dubai but many of the consultant replied back saying that If I have got uk based degree then it is much easier to get job there hence the reason I want to do MBA again as previous one was from Barbican which is not acceptable even here in UK and how comes they will accept this so I really want to get master degree from UK based university.