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tolajay:
Let's not mix up the issues: Outsourcing isn't plagiarism.

May I ask you;

Are all outsourced work plagiarised?

Are all plagiarised work outsourced?

Is it possible to outsource and be fully prepared to defend same?

I have no support fibre for plagiarism but outsourcing a project/assignment for whatever reason isn't out place, in as much as you can follow through on the process, review and defend your outcome.

Really?
Truly our people's moral compass is askew.

Lexusgs430:
This should act a lesson, to all new migrants........ Fraud rate is very high in the UK, people would take advantage of the weak and informed........

If that deal is too good to be true, it probably got fraud written all over it ...........

You have platforms to buy from, that offers you financial protection (eBay - PayPal)........

Fraudsters would never use a platform, that offers financial protection.......

Loud am, make them hear.
The government itself hasn't recovered the money fraudsters collected from it during the covid crisis.

Unfortunately, I doubt the bank will repay that money, its warning messages pre-transfer are enough, its over to the [overwhelmed] police and possibly SCC.

Ahappygirl:
While applying for psw, my IHS payment as dependent was very low compared to what's on government website. But my husband paid the correct amount, did anyone experience this please?

Same thing happened with Tier 2.
No need to worry, they'll contact you later when they get round to processing your application to top up the payment to what its supposed to be, so make sure you keep the money handy.
Home Office no dey leave its money for ground.

Ukliving:
Some people are sending me messages that I should connect them to the company that sponsors.
There is more to the story than I didn't mention. Apart from what I raised in my previous post, the place where the job is Hertfordshire . I was told to look for accommodation in one of the following areas Buntingford, Hertford, Ware, Sawbridgeworth, Bishop Stortford, Hoddesson
Which are all about an hour away from London and very expensive. Two bedroom is average £1200 per month. Salary after tax is about £1500. So imagine having only £300 to take home after all that hardwork. Yes I'm married but we don't know when spouse will get a job, could take a while and even when he does, relying on his income for other bills for such a long time doesn't sit well with me.

Regardless of whatever decision you eventually take (icon8 and others have given you the best advice possible), you will need to change that mindset, and be ready for any situation life throws up.

As an aside, I know of quite a few couples who lived or are living apart while one spouse works out of London, Bristol or similarly expensive locations and the other manages the family in a less pocket-draining or stress-inducing location.

aragbaboy:
Hello, I am a health carer here in the UK with a tier 4 dependant visa. Please where can I study for a nationally recognised NVQ3 in adult or mental health care here in the UK? I see so many online courses but I want to be guided.
Also I am looking for tier 2 sponsorship if you know a company offering sponsorship please let me know. Thanks.

Try Open Study College.
A couple of people have used those for their NVQs that I can remember.

BorisJohnson:
See?

Scotland is not as rosy as many have been made to believe. Aunty Nicola is too obsessed with secession. And it amazes me that a lot os Scots don't think deeper about the nonsense that the SNP keeps dishing out about independence.

Seen.
Scotland is not necessarily "rosy", but it gets more public funds from the UK government than England and Wales per head, so it and NI have proportionally more money to play with than England, which is the financier of the UK.

BorisJohnson:
Scotland is not as rosy as being painted. They have the worst ambulance services in Scotland. Their tax no be here. Even during the heat of Covid, if you need to call phone numbers for sampling, it was free in England and Wales, but you pay in Scotland. Scotland will claim "we get our prescriptions for free while england pay 9 pounds" well that is true. what they will not tell you is that they pay more tax in scotland.

Nothing is free, and yes we know all that about the tax brackets in Scotland.
And the statement about calling numbers re Covid, I dont think that's the correct position, I visit Scotland (Edinburgh) regularly for work and I simply don't believe Nicola will allow anything that is "free" in England and Wales to be "paid" in Scotland, especially Covid-related, she's that obsessed with drawing the distinction. Check your phone plan.

But you get "free" prescriptions, "free" 30 hours funded places for nursery school for all, "free" bus travel for young people and the elderly, etc.
Someone has to pay somewhere.
Never lose sight of that fundamental fact.

mex551:
well captured. If you complain on two or three issues, they will tell you that they only have 10min for you and that they will only attend to one. Very nasty experience with this UK GPs. Abeg Naija medical system seems to be better than this. Save for the fake drugs

If you're working, see if your company offers private health insurance, and where this is the case, avail of it in the event of another episode.
It's going to take a few years to sort out the NHS.

Or move to Scotland, the system's not as broken there, I gather.

Estroller:
House i greet o. Abeg se I fit continue my self employed job(I'm registered as sole trader with HRMC) while I'm on paternity leave from my main job?

@theguyfromhr

Of course.
There is no reason why not.

LagosismyHome:
This application was done in UK or outside?

Outside the UK, I would presume, given that she said the BRP was delivered to a post office.

HollyMadison:
Newcastle is nice, clean, cold, the natives are nice and have a strong accent, it’s kind of posh, huge immigrant community because of the universities and cheap accommodation and transportation(one card for train & buses) compared to most major cities.

Newcastle is in the north of England, and unfortunately the attitude of the south-eastern part (read London and that area) towards northerners is somewhat like the way some Nigerians perceive northern Nigeria, and the strong accent in northern England is certainly far from being "posh", in the sense that that word is used in this class-ridden country. A person with a northern accent would most likely be stereotyped as being working class.

justwise:
Newcastle accent posh?

Safeob27:
Hi guys, please permit me to post this question here, I just need advice from people already living in the UK

Please I have offers from Bournemouth university and Kingston university to study Adult nursing msc and I am having trouble deciding which to pick . I am well aware that Kingston is close to London so rent is so high but my husband is a banker and feels there would be more opportunities for him closer to London. Now if I pick Kingston are there areas with affordable rent we can live in , that is not so far from school ?

Please I would love to hear from people who have lived in Bournemouth or surrey please

Thank you

It goes without saying that London will offer your husband more opportunities than Bournemouth would, just like Lagos offers more opportunities than Enugu or Akure, however unsalubrious Lagos/London might be.

Glasgow is another city that offers some good opportunities for finance professionals.

UK looking to solve its care home staff crisis.
Those eyeing care worker jobs should re-strategise....

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-03-08/care-homes-and-estate-agents-offer-spare-rooms-to-ukrainian-refugees

Akorkor:
Thank you all for this thread. Mother of 2 kids under 6 here. We have registered with a GP but council is yet to verify me. How do I go about this? When can I register them for school? Thinking of bringing the little one back in September. Also what is the fate of a child with speech delay? Is there free therapy or is the therapy expensive?

Also for Council verification, I registered into an application called Yoti as I saw that it aids quick verification process but my Nigeria address is being rejected. Don’t know what to do.

I stay in Scotland and I just moved in a month ago. Still trying to find my feet. Thank you mothers and Happy international Women’s Day

I can speak to what the situation was with a relation's child in England.
The child had speech delay and he (for some reason it mainly seems to be male children?) was assessed by a HV and referred for speech therapy.

There was (and that seems to also be somewhat common) a very long waiting list for the council service and at some point my cousin made queries and was told that she could explore the private option if she wished. Prices were very high, but she paid for an assessment and got a twice-weekly hourly slot for which I think she was paying in the region of 150 or so (I'm not very sure). They were able to cover the costs (her husband is a doctor) and this was a while ago when exchange rates were still manageable.

I don't know if the council later reimbursed her.

tosine25:
You for real? I also wish to move my partner and 3kids ( all under 7) to UK using the student route... while I will be shuffling in between due to my work here in Nigeria.

But people close to me keep telling me this can't work out unless am ready to stay with them in UK and that even if I decide to stay with them, it's not easy to take care of 3 minors overthere.

Pls, how you able to achieve that on your own ?

Believe what people are telling you.

LagosismyHome:
It been like that for the last 10 years .... before you blink they add like 50 to 100k per year....(although depending on your area). . .I was waiting for it to crash and gave it . Brexit didn't crash it, pandemic never shake am so I don't know again.

I would say buy buy if you can . ... except if Russia wahala will crash it

Property and house prices are a religion in this country.
I don't see prices falling any time soon.

Lexusgs430:
Nigeria got 5 main problems, solve this issues & Nigeria would start to grow -:

- Greedy Politicians/Political scene overhaul
- Religion
- Corruption
- Punitive measures, against crimes committed
- Square pegs, for Square holes only

No. 6: Replace the Nigerian people themselves with a fresh set of people.

Lexusgs430:
Real life story..........

A lady applied for a loan, lender required a guarantor, she got a guarantor....... Guarantor accepted secured term loan .......

Loan term 4 years : Guarantor sold his house after a few months and relocated, borrower lost her job after 1 year and could no longer service loan.......

Lender is chasing borrower, guarantor is out of reach, borrower is requesting lender keep chasing guarantor, that if guarantor did not put his full chest in front, lender would have not dropped funds.......

Borrower is claiming guarantor should be held responsible............

Long and short : Lender is holding borrower responsible, but borrower thinks it's not a fair position........

Human beings are just crazy - they come in all sorts.

kode12:
Heat pumps are not even an option in my opinion. If you see a chimney spewing thick soot in west London, know that I have chop my wood and resorted to self-help

Lol, if na London you dey, it doesn't really get cold enough these days there to worry much, a log burner will not even use much firewood.

kode12:
Isn't that only postponing the inevitable? Isn't the government is putting a ban on gas boilers in a few years? £310 for a 3bed flat is steep though. Does it have a good EPC rating? Also, is his DD increase in anticipation of the price cap increase, or is his bill already in arrears and the increase is in a bid to settle the arrears?

The DD increase is against April and the new price cap thingy.
Of course, you dont use that much in the warmer months as opposed to winter, so after a few months he'll probably be running in credit. But another hit is coming in October, so it will be moot anyway.

kode12:
Isn't that only postponing the inevitable? Isn't the government is putting a ban on gas boilers in a few years?

Lol, the Russian adventure in Ukraine has concentrated minds.
I don't see the government banning those anymore until renewables are fully able to make up a reasonable proportion of the UK's energy mix and that is far in the future, at least with current technology.

The alternative, heat pumps, are damn expensive, even with the subsidy, are not suitable for flats, and use electricity, always more expensive than gas.

kode12:
What's the size of the property, £75/month sounds cheap if it's all electric. I'm seeing some people quoting bills of £250+/month for an average sized house.

I would avoid an all-electric house now if I were you.
Prices are going up fast and you could find yourself paying far more by October after the price cap is next reset.

My brother-in-law is in Aberdeen and he's had his DD upped to 310, 3 bed flat, family of 4. He's otherwise happy with the house, but is considering moving.

AnaCheks:
Good evening Boss. Please can you explain more on this?

I'll give you my opinion.
It all falls within the concept of immigrants to the UK learning to manage their expectations.

In most of these fields of endeavour where experience far outweighs the number of printed and logo-ed pieces of paper one has, a masters degree should be seen as basically as a ticket to enter the UK job market from Nigeria and start looking and not an automatic ticket to a) consideration for employment in the first place; and b) securing such employment.

It should also be noted that universities are for-profit entities, and that's why they set up all these courses to attract business (as an aside, the UK government is attempting to stop universities from offering so-called Mickey Mouse degrees at undergraduate level which are essentially useless in the workplace and trying to get them to focus on core courses and their related offshoots). Most of all these courses are really empty crap, either repeating things taught at undergraduate level or inserting stuff only marginally relevant or coming up with whole new ideas or concepts which are of no bearing whatsoever to the real world. Even the average masters degree in my own field of HR should really be compressed into a 3 month professional course, with all the rubbish performance management and employee resourcing and outsourcing stuff tossed out. Essentially, one learns on the job.

The Mickey Mouse masters degrees with "international" or "global" are a particular favourite. I've seen quite a few of the proud holders of masters degrees in "international human resources management" and one feels like telling them MNCs are unfortunately unlikely to be much interested, and that the average chap who left school with a few A levels a few years ago and has been functioning as a talent acquisition partner since then, is more likely to be considered for any intra-company openings that come up outside the UK than someone just landing with a brand-new MSc in so-called IHRM, for instance.

kode12:
Why not go ahead into an MSc. in Civil engineering. All these generic project management degrees are not worth the paper they're issued on without accompanying work experience in the sector you're applying to and in the UK.

The bolded is correct, but an MSc in Civil Engineering is just as worthless in the job market.

gistbite:
Ancestors with young kids, how do I register my 3year old for nursery school please? Please help.

I tried applying on the council website but they were asking for some details that we don’t have yet.
For context, my partner is a student and I just started full time employment this month(nights, so someone will always be at home with her). thank you.

What are the details requested?

AltCtrlDel:
I consulted the oracle's but they have not spoken. Pls how do I get items bought on US websites into the UK without robbing a bank to pay duties?

Lexusgs430
TheGuyFromHR
Ralphlauren
LagosismyHome
Mamtukwas
STENON

US to Lagos, then Lagos to UK by cargo if the difference in value of the items is worth enough to you to pay for that.
There are companies that offer forwarding services from the US to UK for Amazon US items like forward2me, MyUS and the rest but that will still leave you with a customs bill. I've bought things from Amazon US and as the previous poster said, I just made sure I paid an all-inclusive price.
Basically finding someone travelling to the US and giving them money to buy for you is the only viable alternative.

Mamatukwas:
Wow. Isn’t that a bit much?

I know someone who did it.
Obviously, those kind of conversations with HR are more easily done in small to midsize companies.

canadaishome:
Guys

Asking for a friend,

Person got a job offer in a company but they are not a sponsor.
How can he go about having them apply for a license and sponsor him?
Any tips will be appreciated

He should take the job first and start working while still looking for others.
When he has proven his worth he can raise the issue of sponsorship, it is doable to ask them to take any costs from his pay. These costs are not expensive anyway, even if the company doesn't have a sponsor licence in the first place.

A lot of companies avoid it because they think its wahala and expensive, but it's really not, and the management requirements from the HR side are not onerous, at least from what I have seen.

In any event, in his shoes I'd take the first job and continue the search, because the better (longer) your UK employment history, the more likely you are to be or become someone a company would be willing to sponsor.

Chreze:
Pls my people, if you get any mail from your child’s nursery that someone from his classroom contacted covid. Please withdraw your child for some time. Contrary to NHS guide that the child can still go to school if he/she is not showing any signs or symptoms. As I type this, everyone is my house (self, wife and our 2 n half year old son) has covid.

Pity that you have covid (I had it too last year), but withdrawing children from school on the basis of contact with other covid-positive children isn't the way forward, I think. As the previous poster said, you might find yourself basically home schooling your child for the forseeable future.

Covid is here to stay, suppression has failed and it's time to live with it. Children swap diseases amongst themselves at that age, and covid is just another disease to add to the mix.

Peerielass:
It is what it is but it will pass soon. Now you will understand why oyibo no dey born too much pickin unless of course they are on benefits.

Do you have a partner? If yes, one of you has to stay home and look after your son or you can both work alternate shifts so there’s always someone at home. If you are by yourself, then you just have to pay the nursery fees and get on with it. You could also try bringing a relative from Nigeria but that itself is fraught with problems.

Whatever you do, please do not leave your young son by himself. I know some Africans do this but it is very dangerous and could land you in big trouble with the police and social services.

No Nigerian would leave an 18 month old baby alone in Nigeria and go to work, let alone in the UK.
Ultimately it boils down to planning for the OP, someone works days and someone works nights, those are the only options.

deept:
Also, if you don't ask, you don't get

You can ask when you've got equality of arms.
In the UK today, most renters are way, way outgunned by landlords in most cities, and foreign students with families are cannon fodder when it comes to house-hunting. Take it or leave it is the order of the day.