In this week's All Points North we return to the Kenyan students who arrived in Finland hoping to study for new careers — but ended up disappointed.
Yle's MOT investigative unit followed two students in their journey to study physiotherapy at TAMK in Tampere. Minna Knus-Galan from MOT says the students were misinformed about their studies.
"This program is full of lies," said Knus-Galan. "Firstly it was sold as a full scholarship program – that was the first lie. This case is packed with lies."
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As an 'education export' project, the programme should have involved a public body paying for the whole cost of the study period. That did not happen and the students ended up on the hook for their fees.
"I really wanted to study physiotherapy," said Susan Cheptepkeny.
"In my first year I got all my credits clean, but now with the burden of that amount of money, then I just had to give up. Not because I wanted to, but because I can’t be able to pay that money. It’s unrealistic and even if I try, it’s so hard."
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This week's show was presented by Egan Richardson with additional reporting from Zena Iovino. The sound engineer was Tuomas Vauhkonen.
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