Message-ID: <19980709031532.3000.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:15:31 PDT From: abdus samad <mailto:samad_100@HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: BAD EXPERIENCES with Wolrd Learning Inc. To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
I have no specific experiences of world learning but plenty of experience with bad donor assistance.1. For example, when poor quality consultants arrive to live in super first class comfort at inflated salaries and pick local brains to write a poor travelogue.
2. For example, when missions from international agencies tell policymakers to default on domestic debt while treating external creditors with deference.
2. When the donors through their financing prop up corrupt leaders, dictators and those who violate human rights.
3. When donors conspire with poor leadership to develop poorly concieved policies with no responsibility for those policies and the domestic talent is left with only one opportunity: to migrate.
if you do not see all this happening, you must be one of the high paid cosultant or employee of one of these. I can find hundereds of these examples.
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>From: "SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (SSI)" <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU>
>Subject: Re: BAD EXPERIENCES with Wolrd Learning Inc.
>X-To: Matthew Parry <mailto:mparry@NTCA.ORG>
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>First of all, I seldom write to gain somebody's sympathy. The reason I
>wrote about World Learning was simply a felt need to warn and to
>inform this community about my own experiences. With regards to more
>specific details:1) before I finished my MSC I wanted to participate in
>some conferences which would have enhanced my learning, my request was
>denied alleging "lack of funds". After I finished my MSC World Learning
>(then PIET) reverted to USAID a $9,000 SURPLUS on my account. 2) I
>was verbally accused of sexual harrassment by a former PIET employee
>on her only visit to the university. After demanding PIET to support
>her allegation an apology was offered to me. 3)After learning that I
had >served as Senator for the university student body while working on my
>Ph.D. and without finding out ALL the facts, World Learning cut my
stipend >by one third for three months. Reimbursing me after painstaking work
>demonstrating USAID officials that the money I had received was a
>leadership scholarship based on my own merits and not a salary paid for
my >services as senator. These are JUST THREE of very many unpleasant
>experiences I had to put up with under the "care" of World Learning and
>which could have been easily prevented had some really professional and
>caring (other-than-in-their-bottom-line) organization been in charge.
>
>Regards,
>JCW Ph.D.
>
>p.s. I am from Ecuador and was selected by USIAD/Ecuador officials
based >on merits (i.e., BSC Cum Laude from U. Of Maryland).
>
>MORE BELOW....
>
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Matthew
>Parry wrote:
>
>> After reading the messages from Messrs. Wandenberg and Mwoko
>> about their dissatisfaction with World Learning, I have to ask -
could you >> please be more specific about why you are so unhappy and what the
>> details of your program were ?
>
>SEE ABOVE
>
>> What expenses did AID pay
>
>MOST EXPENSES (although during my last two years of my PhD. program
they >decided unilaterally to reduce my insurance benefits thus forcing me to
>pay for dental check ups and new glasses)
>
>> and where exactly did World Learning fail ?
>
>EVERYWHERE! except perhaps in making a profit out of administering
USAID >monies.
>
>>How long did your program last,
>
>TOTAL: about 5 1/2 years (2 for my MSC and 31/2 for my Ph.D)
>
>> and did you finish ?
>
>YES
>
>> On the surface, Mr. Wandenberg's message sounds like AID was paying
>> for his Pd.D. - is this true ?
>
>YES
>
>> I know next to nothing about World Learning, so please support your
>> charges with some substantive details / facts before asking the List
>> Serve's readers to sympathize.
>> Matt Parry
>
>No sympathy requested. Thanks anyways.
>
>Kind regards again,
>JCW
>
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