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littleoldlady · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 286 Location: knitting heaven

Dear 007,
As you know, there are Muslim parents in the UK bigger cities who send their children to a Catholic or C of E school if there is no suitable Islamic school in the area because they believe it has some moral/religious values even if not the "right"ones. Children of the Book and all that. I did that with my Muslim daughters with their father's approval.

Coming back to eyes: does your theory mean that if I spend time back in the ME I could get brown eyes? My half ME daughter has blue eyes - so how does that figure?
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject:

Don't feed the trolls!!!

NCTBA

007 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

But NCTBA... if we don't feed you, you will just fade quickly away. Laughing

Littleoldlady is exactly right. This small college does not force its students to take religion classes, but Muslim parents are correct to realize that it does keep its students in a more protected conservative women-only environment. There are actually a few small colleges like this in the US... and they recruit female students from the Gulf. I actually was a temp in their accounting department for a couple months one year before I was in education. I had no idea it existed either.

VS

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject:

I, actually, am, decidedly, pro, this troll... Laughing

NCTBA

littleoldlady · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 286 Location: knitting heaven

where's my avatar?? Sad

007 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Splitting Hairs · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 99

A lot of institutions in KSA and UAE accept students onto degree programmes with a 500 TOEFL (instiutional) or IELTS 5.0. Then they graduate without having their exit English measured. Many universities in the UK/N.America rely on funds from foreigners/aliens and will allow students without the minimum 6.0 IELTS (engineering) or 6.5/7 IELTS(arts) to enroll if they have the funds to support themselves. The fact that they have a degree from their own country is normally never questioned.

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

For what its worth, I am currently working with Omani colleauges at SQU, all of whom took their first degree at SQU.

One has recently finished her doctorate at Lancaster University, another did her doctorate at Essex, the third has just completed his doctorate at Bristol.

One of my own students in the Royal Air Force of Oman, having graduated in Enginnering from SQU successfully completed a Masters degree at the University of Toulouse. Another RAFO officer did his doctorate there.

Lancaster, Essex, Bristol, Toulouse - none of these universities is anything like a degree mill, reliant on overseas students to kep going. If people graduate from these institutions, it's because they deserved the degree.