The students’ illusion and dream to enroll in medical schools and get the title of “Doctor” never ends, even it costs them their lives, or money.
The students, who failed to join medicine schools in Egypt because of their poor grades, either face mysterious death out of their homelands or fall victims to scams.
Two months ago, an ambiguous accident occurred in which three Egyptian students drowned in Volga River in Russia, but the ministry of education and cultural attaché office in Russia knew nothing about them. Those students like others travelled to Russia via online universities’ brokers.
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The students are looking through back doors to get the certificate at any expenses. In this regard, medical syndicate and the supreme council of universities have set many restrictions to put an end to those informal certificates obtained from fake universities.
-Recent Egyptian Students’ Crisis with an Ukrainian University
A number of Egyptian students filed a complaint with the Egyptian foreign and immigration ministries, saying that they had been subjected to a large-scale fraud by the education intermediaries who recruited them to study at the university in Ukraine, without having the teaching staff or necessary requirements for study.
The university and student mediators and brokers’ partners threatened the students with dismissal and deportation from the country, if they transferred their papers from the university to universities other than those dominated by the brokers they came through, according to the students
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On her part, Egyptian Immigration and Expatriates Affairs Minister Nabila Makram has contacted Egypt’s Ambassador to Kiev Hossam Ali to follow up the developments of this crisis.
In an official statement, the minister called for the utmost caution by students to avoid being scammed by education brokers in Ukraine who register them in exchange for a large fee at non-credible universities, allowing brokers to blackmail and threaten the students regularly or implicate them in problems, thus endangering their future.
Moreover, the Egyptian ambassador stressed that this crisis comes as part of a much larger extended one at Ukrainian universities.
Egyptian students at many other universities have also complained that brokers have deceived them to study at the universities without any real criteria to ensure the quality of education provided, according to Ali.
“Students are subjected to extortion by the broker to be able to extract residence papers, pass from one year to another, or transfer their study to another university in Ukraine,” he added.
It is worthy to mention that, the Donetsk Medical University in Kerfograd is the same university that dismissed 400 Egyptian students in spring after requesting the students repay tuition fees, which they had already paid to university partners of student brokers. In the meantime, Immigration minister in cooperation with the Egyptian embassy interfered to support the students and to preserve their rights, until the problem was solved.
-The Rising of Fake Certificates
At the end of the 1980s, many back doors were opened as a way to get the title of “Doctor”. Those indirect ways were initiated by the medical faculties’ professors, whose sons failed to join Egyptian medicine faculties because of their low results, thus resorting to medical schools in Russia, Ukraine, and Romania that accept students with low grades.
Hence, it has become a trade, and many non-credible universities have spread with brokers who are manipulating students and their families to achieve their ultimate dream of being a “Doctor” at any cost.
In the mid of 1990s, private universities began to surge in Egypt. Two of these universities decided to start operating their medical schools, although they did not have hospitals to train students, considered a basic and key part of medical education.
Thus, a long conflict erupted between one of those universities and the higher education ministry, until it had established a hospital in its school and regulations had been set to regulate the admission of the students to these colleges.
Since then, the market of fake universities abroad has revived again, especially with the limited places in public universities and the high grades of enrollment to medical colleges, as well as the high expenses of private universities and the higher education ministry control over the admission rates.
It has been found lately that a number of 'Thanwaya amma' students registered in the literary section, and technical diplomas holders obtained fake certificates to practice medicine in Egypt.
In this regard, the supreme council of universities, in charge of equating any foreign certificates, in cooperation with medical syndicate put restrictions for obtaining this equivalent certificate including: bringing the original high school certificate or any equivalent one, whether English or American to issue the medical license.
Contributed by: Nada Mustafa
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