This letter’s essence is to recount my experience as a Doctorate Student in AIU. I belief the message is important for other students who see education as an attribute to be pursued to an enviable position in their life. And also, to better understand the true meaning of education at the global level meaning, the AIU understanding.
My experience as an AIU student worths to be recounted, as a Business and Economics student, registered in Safety and Security Management for Doctorate Degree, programe commenced with the regular payment of my course fees on scheduled. Being a sick retiree I had a hitch with a message the Insurance Company paying my pension sent out earlier, for updating retires records.
I became immobile, sick individual, and could not respond to the demands for updating the records requested for more than one year, thus making my pension payments stalled, and this affected my payement of the course fees.
The pension payments was put on hold, which made me contact the school and applied for ‘a year leave of absence’, to be free from stress and pressure, while soliciting for scholarship to continue with the studies.
I was determined to complete the course and nobody or company was ready to extend a helping hand to a retiree for a study grant.
I applied to my retirement organization for scholarship during a national election campain period in Nigeria, and this delayed the process.
After the election I resumed checking on the organisations for progress and many of them turn down the requests, or put my application on hold even while some complained of staled application period, that entailed withdrawing and resubmitting the application for resubmission.
The application was further submitted in faith, while I was expecting the final grant of the sponsorship, that will enable me graduate.
Greater appreciation and kudos go to the AIU Senate and Management, that carried the brunt of my liability, and inconsistences in the studies and finance, running against my graduation for over a year, and given an undue stress to the Finance department that continues to remind me of the late payment.
The University agreed to review the installmental payment to ease the pressure in the payment.
With all the distortions from my inability, the study was not disrupted but instead I was detailed to appear for an Accelerated Learning Application interview with the Dean of Faculty, which facilitated my study programe and aided my timely completion as I had overstayed the course duration for an excess of fourteen months.
The AIU as an arbiter and advocate of the United Nations’ Goals on Human Rights, is actually propagating the Education as Rights of a man or a woman no matter the odds, whether the means is available or not, of which I am an example.
For AIU Education is a Right that must be sustained.
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Tosin Ademola J. Adedoyin
