BRITAIN FORGET ABOUT OVERSEAS STUDENTS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY EVEN LOCAL STUDENTS HAS BEEN DENIED ADMISSION FOR MEDICAL COURSE READ THE STORY OF ONE FEMALE STUDENT WHO SCORED A GRADE IN EVERY SUBJECTS DENIED ADMISSION BY FOUR UNIVERSITIES THEN JOINED UNIVERSITY IN POLAND FOR SIX YEARS COURSE WHICH WILL COST 60000 POUNDS BUT CANNOT GET STUDENT LOAN With A grades in maths and chemistry and an A* in biology, Caroline Cieslewicz seemed like the ideal medical student. But despite her stellar A-level results, the 18-year-old’s plans were dashed when she was turned down by four British universities. Despite having excellent grades – and work experience at a hospital, an optometrist practice and an overseas blood clinic – she was rejected outright by Cambridge, Bristol, Birmingham and Leicester. Caroline, who was head of her house at Rugby School, was also unsuccessful when she tried to find a place through clearing. She was, however, offered a place at Krakow University, after coming ninth out of more than 100 applicants in an entrance exam. Now her parents face the prospect of selling their home, near Northampton, to fund her studies in Poland. Fees for the six-year course will be £60,000 – and Caroline is unable to apply for a student loan, as she will be a foreign student. ‘It’s ridiculous. I don’t know what more I could have done,’ she said. ‘I didn’t expect all those rejections. ‘For the next six months my parents are going to see how they can finance my studies. ‘I feel bad because if I went to university here they wouldn’t have to help me.’I’m lucky because, although the course is in English, when you go into a clinical environment you need to speak Polish and I am fluent.’ Her father Conrad, a chartered surveyor who is married to Zofia, a chemistry and maths teacher, said: ‘Despite all she has achieved in life, she has been rejected to study in her native country.’
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 07:22:37 +0000
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