mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i just found out yesterday that out of my batch, ONLY the ENGINEERING kids will be headed for the UK. apparently some guy already has an offer from Liverpool or something. kinda unfair in a sense. we're not given any real reason from those in authority WHY the REST of us are not being considered..we're still headed for Auckland. i'm not so sure about the other students, but the whole TESL lot for this batch and ny juniors are headed for the same university..i have a theory: they just want to get the "prestige" of having foreign grad teachers, irrespective of whether the university had a teaching programme in the first place. i'm so tired of fighting this, its my final sem, i dont need all this stupid nonsense. if, and only if, i manage to pull off superb results for my a-levels and if, and only if, i can find a sponsor to pay for my education, i will quit this stupid programme.
i did know that some engineering kids were applying on their own to the UK, getting their own UCAS forms and stuff. but i heard they were going to find their own sponsors and what not...
i hate my current sponsors. they are:
- redundant in their management and decision making
- fickle as to what policy goes in what year, and which part of the year.
- never definite
- STUPID!!!! they never give an explanation to their decisions and we're pawns in their stupid games.
they just suck. its like a cruel joke, when we first came, they said "we'll be sending you overseas provided you meet the minimum requirement, and most likely it'll be the UK". then they said "NO MORE UK. its australia or new zealand for engineering kids and the rest of you go to auckland". the head of a-level even said, and i quote,"dont think about this uk stuff anymore". and now they're saying "ok, the engingeeing kids get to go, you teaching lot still in auckland". reasons given for the sudden engin-kids-go--but-you-lo t-stay agenda:
- it was in their offer letter : engineering in the uk
- the federal government suddenly got money, and can afford to send them, and only them, to the uk.
-->i'm thinking, what has the federal government got to do with our sponsorship? they're just taking care of 3 areas out of the whole country...dont get me started on politicians here. - the courses offered in australia and new zealand were not, ahem, "suitable" for the engineers to be. cause, although auckland may offer new, awesome-sounding courses like the whats-it-tronics, there are people who still want to do E&E, chemical...hey, you can do that locally what. even in singapore it'd still be recognised. they just want uk-grad engineers.
- my friend said that the money that was supposed to be used to send us teaching lot to the uk was used to feed us chicken.
what i dont understand is WHY the teaching lot after mine and my juniors (technically my super juniors) will get to go to the uk and we dont. that is the big loophole here. i thought the college now will be turned into a teachers training college after we leave. end of the day we can speculate all we want about why this and why that but the jackasses running this joint will never give us a straight answer.
for those i know personally in the engineering lot, i'm happy for them, really i am.
but what about ME??