International Officer – Americas at the University of Northampton, Catherine Yates (right), talks with these students about some of the programmes that the university has to offer at the International College Fair at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC) recently.
By:
Patricia Thangaraj
Barbadian youth are eager to pursue tertiary level studies overseas and hopefully stay on after they have completed their studies.
This was made abundantly clear when The Barbados Advocate paid a visit to the International College Fair at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC) recently.
One of the young students that spoke with this newspaper was 22-year-old Trisha Carter, a past student of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management with Spanish.
She said that she wants to pursue a Master’s Degree in Digital Marketing as she recognises that the job prospects for this field are good since a lot of employers are seeking persons with skills in this area and she was looking at the various universities in England that offer such a programme.
She was also on hand to check out various scholarship opportunities such as the Chevening Scholarship, the Commonwealth Scholarship and the National Development Scholarship, and she is hoping to study somewhere in London because that is where she has family so she can stay with them.
Carter is looking at a 2018 start date after which if the opportunity presents itself, she would like to stay on in London and work.
Another student who The Barbados Advocate spoke with was Pierre Belle, 17, a second-year student doing the Associate Degree in Economics and Accounting at the Barbados Community College (BCC). He is looking at continuing his studies at a university in Canada.
He said that he liked that North American country after visiting it in 2011 and he would love to stay on afterwards and work.
Daniel Blenman-Vaughn, 19, who just completed his Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the BCC, would also love to go and study in Canada after falling in love with that place during a visit in 2008.
He is hoping to start his studies in September, 2017 in Aerospace Engineering, preferably in Ontario and would love to stay on and work in Canada after he completes his studies.
Christanna McConney, 17, a current pupil of the Lodge School, would like to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science or a Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Nutrition as these are her two areas of passion. She is looking at universities in either England or Canada and is leaning towards a September, 2017 start date since she would graduate in June, 2017.
McConney, who is also checking out scholarships, said that the University of Northampton caught her attention at the fair for Environmental Science while Johnson and Wales caught her attention for Culinary Nutrition.
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