Masters Propio (ENEB, etc)

I know! They're welcome! And from what I can see, they do well. And thanks for straightening me out on "Hausa / Fulani." My friend only mentioned Hausa - another source showed Hausa / Fulani - I knew of the Fulani and thought it was OK - and it wasn't. Thanks.

Nigerians are awesome people? They certainly are - like you, like my friend, like Helen -- all of Nigeria, except the area boys -I've heard they're um...less than awesome.

 

Thanks so much, yea the area boys are not an awesome lot. You mostly find them in certain areas in Lagos. The funny thing is one thing they know very well is loyalty. When they are loyal to you, they will protect you. Sadly, I don't have any in my corner. Quick question, how do you think a Master's degree from an accredited school in Benin Republic would fare when it comes to evaluation in Canada?

 

Well, if you decide to emigrate to Canada you will learn the meaning of "brutal cold". Beyond that, Canada is a wonderful, if rather expensive, country.

Hey Johann...why IS Canada so expensive these days?

 

I fished for some answers to this on the Internet - because I just flat don't know the answer. Most sources simply said that like all foreign degrees, you'd have to have it evaluated. There are, I think about five members of the Alliance of Credential Evaluations Services of Canada. I'm pretty sure you know who these are. WES Canada (this is not a recommendation) has a pre-evaluation service that might be useful.

I looked on a Nigerian forum and the question was raised there. The answers ranged from:

"Even Nigeria no recognize their certificate," to "Very much recognized. That's a sovereign nation for God's sake." I think the truth may be somewhere between these extremes - but I don't know exactly where. My take: the only reliable answer is from a credential evaluator. Certainly not from me. Sorry.

 

You ask and they tell you "Because it's F.U. that's why." Or else they lie. My take - 100% Greedflation. Grocery stores change prices as often as the managers change their shorts. After the pandemic, stuff was all in short supply - so the stores knew they could sell everything at whatever price - so they charged accordingly - and kept marking up from there. Some are worse than others. My cereal costs $4 a box at the lowest-price grocery chain and $7 at the highest. It comes from the same place at the same price. The Chinese, from whom we buy almost everything - did the same at the wholesale level. Consequently, even the Dollar stores have had to ratchet up the prices. It's mostly profiteering. I bought 3 grocery items for a total of $11 in one store - they were $24 at a much bigger supermarket across the street. Now I know how that store got so big...

Rents are the biggest thing. An apartment which cost $600 mo. when I came back here in '93 is $2,000 mo. now.

None of this is new. I remember in the 90s, apples were expensive one year. I asked a store manager, and he wrung his hands and said "Transportation surcharges ... they're killing us." I looked around - the cheapest apples came from ... NEW ZEALAND. The most expensive came from GRIMSBY - 9 miles from the store!

It;s expensive here because of liars and robbers. Lying should be a capital crime. Yeah - I'd support that. Never thought I'd see WORKING homeless living in tents in the public park near my house -- but they do. We're in bad shape. And having Doug Ford in power doesn't help. But what will?

 

So only non-accredited schools are not recognized in Nigeria, at some point there were so many "funny" schools in Benin Republic as it is easy to open a school there since ts a small country. I have worked with my degree over the years

 

I'm guessing that if your degree is OK in Nigeria it should be OK here - Nigeria has good standards. Unfortunately, I can offer no guarantee. Of course, I hope I'm right. I'm pretty sure the evaluators here would know the good from the bad Benin schools.

All the best with it.

 

Thanks

 

They might change their name to The (5) Dollar Store.

 

They already have items at that price. The big chain is Dollarama (1500 Canadian Stores.) I do NOT like them, or what they do. I'll explain if anyone wants to know why. I'm expecting a name change to Ten-Dollarama any day. The one nearest me burned down a couple of weeks ago. That makes complete sense to me, for any of several reasons.

We also have quite a few Dollar Tree stores - I believe there are many more in the US. They're straight shooters. I like them. Everything they sell is $1.50 here - up from $1.25 which it was for years and years. I don't mind that at all. I make Native-style-sorta bead necklaces - for me, mostly. I get most of my beads there.

In fact. one of my very first fashion designs was a Native-inspired skirt and long scarf set, to be worn with a blouse. When I get around to making it (soon) the skirt and scarf will both be fringed with those beads from Dollar Tree. Including purple ones - to simulate the purple shells in wampum that local natives around where I live had, going back centuries. The purple shells came from coastal Natives 1,000 miles away, hand-to-hand down established trade routes. Yeah -I like this fashion stuff. I get to do research and all. What's not to love?

 

When I was small people shopped at the Hudson's Bay Co. I guess that was mostly a Western thing?

 

No, it wasn't. Co. Started in 1670. Still going. Stores all over Canada.. One in my town. Another, bigger one in nearby Burlington, where all the money is. About the only decent chain left.

Eatons "partied till it was 1999" and then they were gone -- bankrupt, after 130 years in business. I worked for them for a year in the early 60s before I went into the credit business. Rotten employer. Good to their customers, though. Good merchandise and they stood behind it. "Goods satisfactory or money refunded."

Sears Canada bit the bullet 5 years ago. Another rotten employer. Along with the bankruptcy, employees lost all severance pay and 20% of their pensions, due to underfunding. It appears banks etc. come ahead of employees. Rotten system.

Hudson's Bay stores are now owned by NRDC Equity Partners, (since 2008) which also owned upscale Lord and Taylor in the US. Info on The Bay here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company#:

 

BTW - Sears Canada employees lost severance, benefits and some of their pension. Sears Canada top managers GAINED $ 9.2 million in retention bonuses. What an EVIL system!

"The company has already closed 58 stores and laid off almost 3,000 employees. In July, Sears offered $9.2 million in retention bonuses to top managers despite employees receiving nothing. "

From here: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/sears-employees-face-no-severance-loss-of-benefits/274573

 

I miss Zellers, the discount department store owned by Hudson's Bay, which closed as a chain in 2013. (They just opened revival Zellers-branded sections in some Bay stores, but it's not the same.)

 

They were all right, at low prices for a lot of things. Kids' clothes (not adult), toys, cheap home and garden stuff etc. The two biggest "don'ts" were furniture and men's suits. You could spot one of those suits on a guy two blocks away! But where else could you get a suit with two pairs of pants for $39.95? And the furniture - all "discount house modern." Acres of wood-grained arborite and melamine. Quite a lot of vinyl in 50s colours - turquoise, beige, orange, light blue, dark brown. ...But coffee at the in-house diner was always good.

 

"And you'll know at a glance by the two pair of pants."

Where's Levicoff when I need him?

 

Old Man Levicoff? Oh, he's here at "The Home" where I am. Lives right down the hall... He's got a nice little side-hustle here; he rigs the canasta games. I fish the newbies in and we both clean up!

 

Hello, @Mac Juli . I completed a propio on Masstercursos, but what does the following they sent to me mean? "Le rogamos, si es tan amable, nos envíe una copia de sus estudios universitarios para que podamos adjuntarlos a la solicitud. "

 

I hope Mac doesn't mind me jumping in here. It means:
"We kindly ask you to send us a copy of your university studies so that we can attach them to the application. "

I'm guessing that means the University awarding the degree needs to be sure you have whatever the prerequisite is -- i.e. you have a Bachelor's degree prior to being awarded a Master's, etc.

 

If you don't have the prerequisite - don't sweat it. I'll print you up a transcript from some school that doesn't exist - maybe in the Philippines or Burundi. They'll never check. On the house - no cost. (I jest.)