Message-ID: <19980708040941.18309.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 21:09:41 -0700 From: sam mwoko <mailto:samie_1001@YAHOO.COM> Subject: Re: World Learning Inc. FACTS! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
I am so happy to hear that. Corroborates my experience. When will the donor community learn and stop mollycoddling the children to death.
---"SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (SSI)" <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> wrote: >
> Just to let you ALL know that I was (until May/98) a USAID sponsored
> student and World Learning Inc. was the one in charge of my Ph.D.
program. > To summarize my experience with them: EXTREMELY POOR! It is quite a
pity > that millions of dollars are spent paying bureaucrats at organizations
> such as World Learning for basically just forwarding the stipends to
the > sponsored students. A much better job could be done by contracting
> directly with Universities and the major professor of the sponsored
> studens.
>
> Kind regards,
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> |J.C. Wandemberg PhD |
> | |
> | |
> |SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (SSI) |
> |810 Poe Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88001 - USA |
> |URL:http://web.nmsu.edu/~juwandem Email:mailto:juwandem@nmsu.edu |
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>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Dania Granados wrote:
> >
> > O r g a n i z a t i o n s
> >
> > WORLD LEARNING
> >
> > World Learning, Inc. is one of the oldest private, non-profit,
> > international education service organizations in the world, and
> > the oldest institution of its kind in the United States. Its
> > mission is to enable participants to develop the knowledge,
> > skills and attitudes needed to contribute effectively to
> > international understanding and global development. Through its
> > Projects in International Development and Training Division it
> > has become a prominent PVO dedicated to furthering world peace
> > through economic and social development initiatives.
> >
> > World Learning operates more than 260 programs in more than 100
> > countries, providing services to more than 250,000 participants.
>
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