WHO ARE THE YAHOO BOYS?

 

Most people who are not familiar with online engagement cannot distinguish between Yahoo Boys and professional Freelancers. These Freelancers also known as Remote Works are paid by foreign firms either on successful completion of job assignment or  placed on a monthly salary basis.

Some are engaged on part or full-time basis depending on the nature of assignment, while some are working as Commission Agents like us. 

Those who are ignorant of  this type of engagement would regard them as "Yahoo Boys" too  based on the fact that they do not leave their houses in the morning and going to work to return in the evening and do not have office apartment to show up but are living a very comfortable lifestyle that attracks suspicion, jealousy and enviness within their neighborhood who would identify them as  "Yahoo Boys" as online transaction looks very strange to many people like the POS transactions outside the banking hall as an innovation in the banking industry.

Their  job activities are carried out online using their Laptops, Android phones and Desk Top computers depending on the nature of job assignment.

 If interrogated by Security Agents  based on suspicion, they  can reveal the overseas company they are  working for and the online platform they registered to secure the job and other verifiable information regarding their online engagement.

Also, if it is a business entity, they can reveal every verifiable legal documents such as business registration Certificate  and including the foreign firm or institution for verification through the Nigerian Embassy Officials in their country of origin as to ensure a legitimate business engagement.

But that is not the case with the Yahoo Boys who keep their identity secret for fear of being arrested by Security Agents. They operate in different forms  with their computers as well use for scamming; but the most common among them is by indicating huge amount of money as a bait to collect the little you have and from   several others. Sometimes, use Agents who go about collecting money from others with the promise that the millions are coming and very soon you will be rich enough to come  out of poverty and also spread similar messages via SMS, WhatsApp and email.

They do not have specific product or service to offer as that would require official registration requirement from the Government. So they do their best to break every Government protocol as to hide their identity in  carrying out their fraudulent activities.

Sometimes they call you on phone to collect your bank details to empty your bank account pretending to be your bank officer. They use several methods to carry on their fradulent activities under the vail of secrecy quite unlike the online professional Freelancers and as Remote Workers who never hide their identity.

CRITICISM FROM DROPPED-OUTS

Criticism from Dropped-out students is  one  of the  big chailleges we face in the distance learning programme due to inability  to pay school fees.

This is not for the private distance learning institutions alone but including the private Primary and Secondary School as well.

The basic issue regarding ths crictism is the inability to pay school fees and dropped out and then go about scandalizing the name of the school as fake in case of distance learning programme or the teachers are not performing well in case of Priviate Primary and Secondary Schools.

 Such scandal is very rare  by  School dropped-out in Public Government schools like  in the Universities and Polytechnics.

For example,  parent send their child to school "A"  as a  private school and withdraw the  child to school  "B" after failing to pay school fees and then  would go about criticizing  all the teachers in school "A" that they are not performing well and later withdraw from school "B"  to public Government school as could not  afford to pay school fees  with all the debts incurred from school "A" to "B" and including all the  blame poured  on the teachers  for  not performing well but conseal  the debts incurred.

 Classroom Lecturers in distance learning programme has this disadvantage of being scandalized quite unlike home  based students. The  classroom student is seen going out for lecture and when he or she stops attending due to none payment of accumulated school fees start going about scandalizing  the name of the  school as fake to discourage others from enrollment  in order to take away his or her shame but conseal the debts incurred but cannot scandalized public school for example if he or she dropped out from the university due to some financial challenges.

But that is not the case with the home based student who study in the privacy of his or her home. No body ask question about the school since no body see him or her  attending lectures. 

So home based study protects both the image of the school and the student untill graduation and even though he or she dropped out of school due to unavoidable circumstances.

Difference Between Classroom and Online Lecturers

In the advancement of computer/internet technology, Classroom Lecturers are gradually phasing out in the academic fields alongside with the campus based traditional Universities and including other tertiary institutions.

Aside from Engineering, pure science and other technical subjects, any Arts and Management course could be studied online without Classroom attendance.

Most students would like to see the Lecturer in the classroom to ask questions for explaination on the subject matter; but such questions with their answers are already available online. Based on the fact  that other students studying online had asked that same or similar questions and got answers from several websites through Google search results.

Consequently, the online Lecturers are finding it very difficult to set exam questions that are not available with answers online.

This automatically eliminate the use of the classroom Lecturers who could only give  limited answers to questions  while the online students who ask  the same or similar question gets enough answers from several sources through Google search results which enable the students acquire  more knowledge on the subject matter quite unlike the Classroom students.

Classroom students are definitely not allowed to get into the Exam Hall with mobile phones and course material  unlike the online students who study and write their exams in the comfort of their homes without any Lecturer watching over them in order to safeguard against examination malpractices like in the case of the classroom students.

Although,  setting the exam questions very from one  institution to another depending on the individual examination setting format and program involved.

Some use objective questions format online whose answers are giving ranging from letter A -  E  for students to tick the right answers to the questions within a given time frame. In most cases, students only guess and tick answers regardless of whether the answers are right or wrong.

This kind of objective  question and answer do not  necessarily prove the individual's understanding of the subject matter even though he or she ticks  the right answer to the objective question, because Fifty Percent of the correct answers are  based on guess work.

Therefore, the essay writing type of questions and answers is mostly prefered to enable the students write the answers based on the understanding of the subject matter and not based  on guess work.

Based on this development, it  is  a very big  challenge to the online Lecturer to set questions that are  quite related to the subject matter whose answers cannot not be easily Google out from the internet.

The question must be framed from the content of the course material and the students are required to give Essay writing type of answers independently as it relates to courses material's content.

Consequently, most Lecturers without such skills of setting  online essay writing type of questions cannot go online as students could easily Google out answers and send back to him or her for making.

The Lecurer could be good at setting question in Classroom  that would require essay writing  and restrict students from getting into the exam hall with mobile phones and study material based on the fact that some questions could easily be Google out from the internet with enough answers.

  Based on this development, most students studying online do write  essay type of answers that are related to the content of the study material and become more intelligent in expressing their views in public places and at the place of work because of the training they had gone through quite unlike some of their counterparts from the classrooms.

Evidently,  the Director of Delcan Distance Learning Consult is endowed with such skills of setting online exams based on the course material content that could not be easily Google out from the internet like other online  professionals.

Delcan Distance Learning Consult (Division of G. Delcan International Services ) is  a direct  Affiliate of the European-American University with African Regional Headquarters in Uganda East Africa listed among the Affiliated Campus in Nigeria on the University's  website.

We provide Lecture material/handouts and set questions in an essay writing format on any  Subject  depending on the Course involved to enable students provide essay writing type of answers on the subject matter independently without  paraphrasing from course material or cramming and from the internet.

Students are  interested  in writing such exam  by expressing their  individual views on the subject matter  independently and through carring out research which compliment the content of the course material/handout as a professional.

Our Students are prepared to express their views independently and with boldness because of the training they had acquired.

 We award Diplomas under the University's affiliation since 2017. The University awards both academic and Honorary Doctorate Degree. Our Lecture material are offered online and offline. Fees are very competitive. 

We provide list of registered students on our website for reference purposes and to be verified by employers and other organizations.

Instead of creating our own independent website, we use blogger of Google just for security reasons having their own  security gadget to prevent online  hickers.

You can see the European--American University website on the rights hand side of this Blog and tap or click on it that listed her Affiliated Campuses in several countries and Nigeria. Then tap or click on the Menu to read more information of the University's legal status and global recognition.

 COURSES

Business Management and Administration, Marketing, Economics, Education Management, Oil and Gas Petroleum Marketing Management, Project Management, Health Education, Guidance and Counseling, Tourism, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Health administration, Religious education, theology and other Arts and Management courses.

We shall give you pages you would read from the course material prior to the exam. We  will show you the mobile APP you would download from Google Apps store and you will be reading all your course material on you mobile phone without buying data. You send your answer scripts  on  exam online such as  SMS, Whatsapp and email for marking.

We show you how to creat folders in your email box to store all your handouts so that you can retrieve them anytime anywhere even though you lost your phone. You have access to read your study material anytime anywhere just as you can read your Bible on your mobile  phone even without data.

If you are interested in any of those courses and program, let me know so that I send you more detail of the fee and course duration.

Contact us today for more details!

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RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT AMONG TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Reciprocal Agreement among tertiary institutions had been endorsed by UNESCO  as a means of fostering cooperation among academic  institutions of higher learning around the world. Under the scheme, a student in level 200 can seek for credit transfer to another institution either in the same or foreign country and be admitted at the same level. (You may google out reciprocal Agreement  among tertiary institutions for more details). 

In that case, it would resort to Dual Degree also known as Reciprocal Degree award;  that means,  a Graduate with a university degree from one school could as well be awarded another Degree of the other school on admission either on the same or another course as equivalent based on the  reciprocal agreement between the two institutions. 

Similarly, the European-American University had entered into Validation  Agreement (also known as Reciprocal Agreement) with universities in several Latin American  countries  and around the World including  the United States of America for Dual Degree awards and for the  global recognition of her Degree programme.  (See “Recognition” on her website for more details). In Nigeria, there are also Nigerian universities affiliated to several foreign universities based on Reciprocal Agreement. It makes it easy for student who  had a Bachelor Degree in Nigeria to begin his or her Master Degree programme in a foreign country of the partner institution. (You may google  for the list of foreign affiliated universities in Nigeria). 

Based on this development, students are prepared based on the Curriculum agreed by the two parties prior to the admission overseas. Outside the reciprocal agreement, the Bachelor Degree may  be downgraded to an ordinary Diploma level  overseas  due to academic standard differences between the two countries. 

Consequently, the student would start all over to read and pass his  or her exams in order to be qualified for the Bachelor Degree award of that country’s standard. 

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNINCE AND EXPERIENCE AWARD

Certificates, Diplomas and even Degrees could be awarded to any individual based on the recognition of prior learning and experimental experience as endorsed by UNESCO and approved by  other tertiary institutions globally. 

Such qualification will be recognized both in the government and private sector based on the following factors:

The awarding institution must be approved by the government in the host country through official registration.  

The Director/Proprietor of the institution must be a member of recognized professional body and in some cases as a Corporate Member using the name of the institution and not as an individual depending on the choice of the Director/Proprietor. 

The institution should be affiliated to a recognized University awarding  Degrees as its mentor after assessment of the credibility, qualification, legal status   and professional expertise of the Director/Proprietor.

For the purpose of references, the institution should maintain list of all registered students/graduates on her website.

According to law, the institution can only award both Certificates and Diplomas and not Degrees. 

Type of Certificates and Diplomas is quite distinct from that of the academic qualifications. Consequently, private institution awards, Graduate Diplomas, Professional Postgraduate Diplomas and others as equivalent to that of the academic diplomas award by Universities and other tertiary institutions.   

Most people particularly Africans think that only  Certificate,  Diploma and Degree could be earned  through academic works attached. But that is not true. UNESCO had endorsed academic qualification and credit earned based on the recognition of prior learning and experimental experience and not based on book work alone. Most inventions we enjoy today were not  studied in the classroom. It is from the inventions of those individuals with Primary Six Certificate and ordinary lab technician, we put  in writing and then become a classroom work for us  to earn Certificate, Diploma and Degree.  Now the question is  'The Inventor and the student in the Classroom, who is to be awarded Degree first?. Google UNESCO recognition of prior learning   experience and search results of other websites and including European-Amercan University website for more details.

  

NYSC RECOMMENDATION

Based on the Nigerian perspective, It is very necessary to acknowledge the fact that foreign universities graduates from all over the world do visit the office of the NYSC on a regular basis for the NYSC Certificate award request with regards to Bachelor Degree award, while most employers in the government offices and parastatals are not familiar with the names of those foreign universities and legal status.

Consequently, it requires the recommendation of the NYSC officials through the issuance of the NYSC Certificate for a proof that the foreign university is recognized by them after they had   verified its legal status and recognition in the country of origin in collaboration with the respective embassy officials and based on UNESCO rules which the NYSC officials would use as a guide to award her Certificate. 

Based on this development, all the affiliate campuses of the European-American University make it mandatory that all graduates with Bachelor Degree possess the NYSC LETTER OF EXCLUSION available only for part-time graduates after graduation according to NYSC new rules.

NUC LIST OF ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES AND CAMPUSES

   Both universities started awarding degrees to Nigerians since in 2009 and in 2018, the names of both universities were not included in the comprehensive list oF universities and affiliated campuses across the nation awarding illegal degrees to Nigerian graduates as published by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) based on the fact that those listed institutions were awarding degrees to graduates as locally printed out in Nigeria without being licensed and approved by NUC and without the consent of the foreign university they represent. (See list of illegal universities online)

  Names of graduates of both universities are published online on both websites for reference purposes under the heading “Register of Graduates” as all her degrees are printed in the Country of origin and not in Nigeria and in conformity with UNESCO rules.

Nigeria Universities Commission Approval (Nuc)

          

Based on UNESCO rules, any tertiary institution could be affiliated to any institution in any part of the world without restriction provided the tertiary institution awarding the degree had been licensed and approved by the government in the country of origin irrespective of the curriculum used. Based on the fact that the advanced countries are the topmost beneficiaries of educational export to the rest of the world  in terms of foreign exchange earnings and being the pioneers of  UNESCO. 

  Consequently, in Nigeria, there are no prior approval guidelines (in the case of NUC approval) involving foreign university affiliation with any Nigerian institution or firm based on UNESCO rules and same apply in any advanced country  and all over the world as member nation of UNESCO.  However, each member nation of UNESCO may have rules guiding indigenous university and local institution or firm for affiliation.  Evidently, list of all affiliations with Nigerian universities are published online without involving any foreign institution affiliation (See Nigerian universities  and affiliations full list online)

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