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Yampotatocarrot:
Please, Sir. I'm asking for M.Sc, not undergraduate

EMU offers Medical Biotechnology in English at master level.

Gibsonchidera:
Good day sir,
Please I have few questions
I just got my unconditional acceptance letter some weeks back and I’m going to pay my tuition fee this week into near East university, my first question is.
When I get my unconditional acceptance letter , do I head to the embassy in Abuja to ask for the next steps or is the next step something you can tell me here.
Secondly how long is the appointment duration as to the date of your appointment like do you book it this week and your appointment is next week ?
Thirdly the national airport in Nigeria isn’t open yet, but the school would provide an online platform to have lectures will it be possible to come to Cyprus and continue classes in person despite the fact that you have started as an online student or would it be possible.

Visit Turkish embassy Abuja Website for detailed procedure about visa application and steps.

About online course platform, send email or call your chosen University to ask direct questions regarding classes and related stuffs. Each university does have international office that responds to direct questions.

Yampotatocarrot:
Good day, please I just went through EMU website, they don't seem to offer any health/medical sciences course in English.

Can you help out with another North Cyprus university that does so, or correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks

EMU offers the following in English:

1. Nursing
2. Pharmacy (5 years and 6 years)
3. Molecular biology and genetics
4. Medicine
5. Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
6. Nutrition & Dietetics
7. Dental Medicine

Goodlucknigeria:
Good morning Prof. and I'm glad to see that you are still on this thread. Prof sir, could you please provide me with journals in Engineering of Physical Sciences indexed in SCOPUS or Thompson Reuters for FREE publication?

Thank you in anticipation

Hello good day,

I have mentioned like 10 times on this particulr thread on how to personally search for any FREE Journals. Particularly, I have stated that nearly 98% of Elservier Journals are free to publish; they have reputable journals indexed in WOS, Scopus and Clarivate with internationally recognized metrics.

You can follow this discussion I wrote on May 29 which is the very recent on searching for Journals:

https://www.nairaland.com/2044554/thread-phd-students/69

The same way you search Journals in Elservier, the same way you will find FREE and reputable journals from Taylor and Francis, Springer, Willey. Royal society and ACS journals.

Just look for SUBSCRIPTION-based journals and avoid OPEN ACCESS.....follow the link up there.

In the attached image; you can also follow the website, you see Elservier has nearly 2400 Journals you can publish and large number is free (98%)..each journal has free version and contains open access also.

Best wishes

Onyinyeuc:
Plz can i have ur contact or mail me with onyinyemelukamuc@gmail.com.

Each of my response, you will see my email address if you are interested to study in Cyprus.



If you want know about Cyprus; you can read the north Cyprus thread part one and this current part two for detailed discussions.

The thread has worthy information regarding living expenses, studies and many more.

Best wishes as you read!

Javanian:
Can you give me pointers to Datasets in the education domain? I am looking for datasets like students answers to homework/exam questions, preferably non multichoice questions. Also, datasets related to students collaboration in a school homework/project/exam. Basically, anything in the Education domain will be useful to me.

You can find public dataset for machine learning from the following:

1. Kaggle.com

2. pslcdatashop.web.cmu.edu

3. data.world/datasets/education

Imustreturn:
thanks bro I appreciate. Anything you can add is welcome please. I still need more advice please.

Speaking about transit Visa from Turkish embassy is it a must? I need to know what to oktb mean. Thank you sir

From the list of universities you mentioned in your earlier post; those universities are located in south Cyprus.

You have no business with Turkish embassy unless you are heading to North Cyprus and OKTB does not work for south Cyprus.

After payment of tuition fee to the university and meet all the requirements in terms of documents; the university will submit your visa application to the migration department and when approved, you can fly. South Cyprus has mimimum cash amount student must have with them upon arrival which ranges 1500-2000 euros, Your university will inform you of exact amount.


The commonly used airline from Nigeria to south Cyprus is emirate airline and you will need to present your visa approval letter (sent by the Cyprus migration ministry after payment of tuition fee) to them before you can board.

Imustreturn:
God bless you wip. Just took my time to read through. I grabbed everything you said, it's Crystal clear. I'm planning on applying for UG. I've gotten mails from 2 Schools out of 5. NUP AND EUC. school fees is 7650 and 8790 Euro Respectively. Hoping to gets something lower

If I can get something lower I will be Happy. Naira is just useless but what do we do?

Coming over now, I really don't need any job because it might not really pay my bills. I love doing business buying and selling LEGIT ONES I don't want wahala . And again I love football very much and I will love to meet clubs over there speak to them and become an agent that can bring in African players for the clubs there.

I need little help for a business man like me who wants to study also.

Sounds very good and I wish you the very best!

CarterPowers:
Wip7, please I have a question. A friend of mine who trades forex and earns not less than $1000 is planning to go to CIU for school by February and he plans on continuing his trade while there. My question is, is forex trading legal there? Will the banks become suspicious if he earns that amount per day into his bank account or is it fully legalized?

First, anything like yahoo-yahoo and related scams are illegal in Cyprus. Meanwhile, there are numbers of fraudulent people that soil the names of their countries that are into those illegal things in Cyprus and many have been caught, jailed and deported; while some are still going to be caught real soon.


As far as the world is concerned, Forex is not illegal and anybody can trade that in Cyprus provided is the real FOREX. To be specific about your friend, for him to earn 1000$ from forex daily (considering my business experience and investment portfolio); the friend will have at least 40,000$ in his trading account. Also, why would the bank have issues with him? since earnings and trading money is not in the bank but its in the trading account......the trading accounts are not located in the banks so if he earns 30,000$ per month he can always leave it in his trading account or withdraw the ones he needs.

I own e-commerce websites (5 of them now) and sometime we generate sales of more than 30,000$ a month, my profits are all in my credit card processor account and I often withdraw anytime I want directly into my bank accounts, banks has never asked and if they do, I have verified websites and registered company documents and verified biz investment portfolio to show for earnings from my sales.

So the same applies to any legal business like FOREX.......so if your friend earns that much a day, even if bank ask, his real trading account balance and trading earnings will be a proof to his business.



Actually, in Cyprus there are Forex trading stores I have seen more than 10 located in Girne and some in lefkosia where CIU is located ...................



Best wishes

Sheggy13:
The platform I'm most familiar with is Python packages through Jupyter Notebook, though I use packages like Weka in the past but I found out they have their limitations. I'm working on automatic learning styles detection. My major challenge now is availability of dataset. I need dataset from MOOCs like Coursera and edx on learners interaction with their platforms but I've not been successful with that. Don't know how you can be of help.

Yes Weka has its limitation.

I can see you are working on classification challenges. You may be needing nearly 25-30 input neurons and like 4-8 outputs to deploy a good model depending on your objectives. If this is not for commercial, then 150-800 dataset may be enough from the learners and usually you can extract from one of those MOOCs.

Coursera and Edx may not be directly willing to release such dataset.

Currently, Coursera’s agreements with partner institutions only permit Coursera to share data from sessions with researchers at the institution sponsoring that class. To obtain data for a session sponsored by a different partner institution, researchers should directly contact the data coordinator at that institution. Contact information for data coordinators may be obtained through CourseOps."


The major issue with ML is source of the dataset. If I may ask you is this commercial project you are working on or just normal project? Because if its commercial you may need roughly above 30000 dataset and should mirrow the org and age of the data matters.


Sure I can provide 2 or 3 different datasets on MOOCs and one is nearly 60,000 dataset.....not new but sufficiently good

Sheggy13:
What platform or software did you use in implementing this ANN Prof?

For my machine learning and artificial intelligence research and project works I often use the following depending on size and aim, all gives similar results just depends on computational power, speed and deployment.

1. Python packages (pandas, numpy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, tensorflow) via Jupyter note: This is FREE.

2. IBM Watson : I use this mostly for projects which am paid for, example, I got a project to build AI predictive model for Aeroponic Farm grown vegetables and potatoes. So since this has flexible cloud system and I can easily share with the client and add new data without distrupting the already built model. THIS is not FREE I pay some cent per cloud credit.

3. Matlab and neurodesigner

4. I have used Azure Machine Learning Studio (it has free version): Quite good and support all python libraries and packages.

For that particular energystorage device, we had around 560 datapoints, I ran various backpropagation algorithms (see below table) with Matlab (this you can run various propagation algorithms) and I compared the generated models with that produced from neurodeigner (this one has some limitations only few models are allow to be run).

So you can use any of above and obtain same or similar results if all parameters are set the same.

What are you working on ? which platform are you using?

haroldwilly780:
......what about lagos ?? Is okto board done in lagos?

Sure

biggeek007:
Good morning Prof,

Will it be possible to come in next month? Can I run OKTB from Benin Republic since Nigeria might not permit international flight anytime soon?

You can come to Cyprus from First week of September just like any other students since university starts towards end of September...so no need coming in August by then we are still in summer period.

You may be able to do the OKTB anywhere but I have only done that for my students from Abuja, Dubai and UK for legal resident in those countries. I think it will depend if Turkish airline offer such service from there as you can only use OKTB with Turkish airline.

Yampotatocarrot:
Good day, Sir and well done.


Please, how is the medical field in North Cyprus, do they teach in English for Masters?

Also, what countries are easy to migrate to, from there, after studies?

Good day,

If you mean fields like nursing and pharmacy, medical biotechnology and other medical sciences then, then they are taught in English. Although few universities offer those at graduate level.

If you mean medicine, only two universities for now offer medicine related master program and quite expensive. for instance undergrad medicine per year cost nearly 20,000$ while no school offers master’s degree in medicine and surgery in TRNC for now. Except master in program like health care management that is relatively cheaper.

For medicine and graduate program in medicine I will encourage you to look towards southern America and Caribbean countries they often offer cheaper medical programs and some of these programs align with PLAB and USLME.

Regarding countries that are easy to migrate to after studies; I don’t know what the term easy means in this regard. However, various graduates have migrated to various countries (developed, developing and underdeveloped) after completing their education either immediately or after sometime. We have graduates that have migrated to Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria, China, UK, USA, Tanzania, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Sudan and Jamaica etc. I think migration depends on where you are migrating largely; if you meet the requirements there embassy to submit your application. One thing I notice is that visa processing seems faster from this region compare to some African countries.

Best wishes

Update (27th July): Students Entrance to North Cyprus In September 2020

In line with the recently held meeting and decision of the TRNC Government, new students from all the countries are allowed to enter North Cyprus from the begining of September with many newly introduced privileges and support from the government under the package called "Student Friendly Island" project.

North Cyprus Student Friendly Island Project Details

Within the scope of the project developed by the TRNC Ministry of National Education and Culture, a bank card will be given to the use of all students studying in TRNC.

With this card:

1. All local and international Transactions can be done.

2. All students will benefit from the Special discount system created in their shopping and spending in TRNC.

3. All new students who will register in 2020-2021 academic session will benefit from 500 TL loaded on the card by the TRNC government

4. All new students can enter with a single PCR test that will be free of charge at Ercan Aiport.



Much updates later...


Interested in studying at TRNC...dont hesitate to contact WIP7....

teewest100:
transit Visa at the Turkish Embassy and the OKTB sir which one is best to go for, just to avoid wasting money and time, because like you said if you are been denied transit visa, you can’t enroll again for OKTB, then that a waste of money and time, so sir kindly shade more light for us sir

Who told you that when you are denied Transit visa you cant enroll for OKTB?

Nobody says that here on this particular THREAD.

Visa and OKTB are two different things that are not related to each other. Visa is issued by the legally authorized embassy after considering your application and other things; the embassy have the right to issue you a visa or deny you a visa even you pay the tuition fee.....they decide who enters their country.

Globally, beign issued a visa by the embassy does not gurantee entry to the country. A visa allow the bearer to travel legally to a foreign country for whatever purposes. The immigration at port of entry determines who enters the country, length of stay and other related stuffs.

OKTB is not a visa but just a service and comes in form of a code on the Ticket not as a sticker on passport and may allow the bearer to board the specific airline. The immigration will determine if such person enters or not.

After you have paid your fees, each university sends details of students that paid to Turkish embassy of their country. The students can check the embassy website and apply for the visa following the procedure stated on the website. Currently, the application for Turkish transit visa can only be submitted physically at the embassy in Abuja for those applying from Nigeria; although a pre-visa must be done online before submitting all the required documentation. Visit the embassy webpage for further directions and updates.

You can also decide based on your personal choice to travel by OKTB. Take note; OKTB is only allowed by Turkish Airline and the traveller that will use this service must adhere to some rules. Most importantly, a return-ticket is required considering the last policy before the pandemic. The traveller must have all the original document like WEAC or NECO for undergraduate while graduate student should have their bachelor degree/polytechnic diploma.

Why people used OKTB?:

some that were denied the Transit visa have made use of OKTB succesfully. Also, some applicant dont have the time and energy to spend at the embassy, hence, just go for OKTB.

So as a student you should decide yourself what you want. Take note, none (visa or OKTB) is 100% guranteed that the bearer will enter the country.

Best wishes as you make your decision.

arafat95:
Good evening everyone, please I will like to know how true it is, someone told me that if you are denied a transit Visa at the Turkish Embassy, you can't use ok to board...

lies

teewest100:
But sir what if the airport doesn’t open and class have started can will still change it even if class started

You can change your course during registration. If you are taking course online, you can change you course during registration as a student of that university. So either online or physically, just inform them during registration that you want to change your course.

teewest100:
Sir for change of course how are we to go about it, I will like to change my course, the person who assist me with the registration gave me the wrong course

You can change course during registration period which is in September... just inform the registrar office as you are being registered that you wish to switch your course.

teewest100:
Sir I just logged into my account and this what I found ACCESS STATUS
NO ACCESS what does that mean

I don’t know what it means. Meanwhile if that’s is the university application portal u logged onto....nothing can happen now until September 2020.

Annie001:
Good morning house
Please what's the duration for Masters in North Cyprus universities and please can I get a rough estimate of how much I would need for feeding, accommodation,tuitions and miscellaneous.
Lastly, when will admission for September intake close
Thanks

You can have idea about tuition fee on each university website and accommodation details. Visit the website to know more.

Also, you can read this link for practical expenses off campus and what it entails: https://www.nairaland.com/351402/north-cyprus/352

teewest100:
Pls house if our airport don’t open before lectures start in September, will it be loss for us from Nigeria here to start lectures online

No it will rather be beneficial, the university will gve you additional scholarship for that semester. So the only issue you may face is your internet connectivity, depending on the country you are located so the additional scholarhsip can support you to fix a better internet package. Other issue you may face is time difference but if you are in Nigeria the time difference is not much like 1-2 hrs difference. Although, we have students that travelled back as well with time difference as much as 4-5 hrs but all went well.

For this recently completed semester, I have been far away from Cyprus, in my location is like 7 hours difference in time to Cyprus and in most cases I have to deliver courses as early as 8:30 am to my students in Cyprus. So my 1:30 am midnight is 8:30 am in Cyprus so for the student no issue for me I have to stay awake till 3 am. I have great internet connect and all went smooth because the online platform we are using synchronize with your time zone provided your computer or mobile gadget is updated to the zone settings.

The beauty of the online platform we are using is that, all lectures we deliver are recorded and can be translated/subtitled automatically into several languages from well-spoken English to even Mandarin, French, Portuguese etc. I am not sure you can translate/subtitle in Ebira or Swahili, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba anyway as I have not tried those. So students can rewatch the lecture vidoes several time as much as they want. Its purely interactive, you will see your lecrurer and students will be seen as well; we have great whiteboard online for calculations and we simulated first year practical/labs online as well smoothly.

am asking because there is still some registration that still needed to be done at the school before been called a full student, so what happen if this registration is not fully done, how will we get our login details and matric number

Many of the universities in Cyprus already have various distance training programs many years before pandemic and have delivered these courses online smoothly. So to get registered is a piece of cake, it will take you less than 60 min to complete your registeration online and your login details, student number and all detials will be passed accross to you.

Currently, I will be giving lectures to summer students starting from July 27th, majority of these students have never been to Cyprus and from their locations, I can see they are majorly from Baharain, Saudi Arabia, Asia, Eastern Europe and few from Eastern Africa, etc. As soon as they completed their online registration as a new student, I receive alerts for course registeration automatically and I register the students to the courses; they are able to access the platform instantly with calenders etc.

In summary, its takes less than 60 min to be active with all your registeration details and starts learning.

Yildiz:
Congratulations on yet another good publication. I see that the paper used a FC NN. I was just wondering whether techniques like skip connections, layer normalization could enhance the model. I am a PhD student in data mining and deep learning sir.

Thank you.

Sure sure Skip connections would assist in the model convergence, considering the nature of parameters we have, its will work mainly via Long skip connections .

What aspect of deep learning are you focused or which application do you direct it to?

Recent Publication (July 2020): Boron-Doped-sugar for fabrication of Energy Storage Device


Of recent, there has been increasing demand for efcient energy storage devices; supercapacitors have attracted signifcant attention as novel and competitive energy storage devices.

Approach: As natural biomass, sucrose sugar has been widely considered as a low-cost attractive carbon precursor. So, we synthesized porous carbon materials via a facile yet sustainable approach using sucrose as a carbon source and improved its electronic structure by doping with boron.

Performance: The optimum material took 275 seconds to fully charge and it took 973 seconds to completely dsicharged the energy stored; the assmebled cell was able to power small rotor fan connected to a series of led bulb.

Modeling: To understand the complex relationships between the materials and its performance, we applied machine learning-type approach via artficial neural network to obtain set of parameters that can generate optimum power.

Researcher: A graduating PhD student, Prof. Wip and other professor as supervisors.

jidoex66:
Worst thing, Nigeria airspace won’t be open till October for international commercial flights

But students can still join the university online for that semester with additional scholarships, while schools are also looking for some extension for those that will come till October ending since mid-exam will be towards November.

bluebella:
Good morning all,
I never knew such an important thread exists here in nairaland.

First degree: Agricultural Engineering
MSc: Safety and Reliability Engineering
MSc: Project Management

PHd: Engineering Management, Environmental Engineering, soil and water Engineering, waste management.
Am looking for scholarships, grants e.t.c and should be Abroad in a conducive environment.

I don't have any research works apart from my MSc thesis.

Please I need guides as regards the above.
I appreciate everyone in this thread.


Best Regards.

PhD Scholarships Abroad is highly competitive because in most cases, its funded either by the university or research organization/industries, hence will require applicants with sets of skills that match the PhD project. Thousands of applicants from various countries often apply, so universities and funder have designed some criteria to weed out some applicants and to carefully select those with skills, credentials and relevant research experience that match the job. Considering my personal experience, there are set of criteria for selecting the applicant that I will list below (it is not a fix criteria but it mirrors what happens abroad).


First, PhD is largely a research based program or training designed to provide significant solutions to some challenges or design new innovative products or solutions, establish parametric links between cause, effects and solutions. Therefore, for PhD scholarship Abroad, the university will generally be looking:

------ for a highly-motivated and ambitious student with excellent knowledge of the proposed research, who can work well in a team as well as independently and quickly acquire knowledge in new topics (20%).

--------The candidate should have relevant background education in the proposed PhD area (30%).

-------The candidate must be able to present detailed Curriculum Vitae, describing research, publication and sometime teaching experience if such Job requires that (35%): Since PhD is research-based, this section will tend to evaluate the applicants by considering their research experience, how well the applicant can communicate the results and observations of the research (this is mainly evaluated by considering applicant publications in reputable and internationally acceptable journals)

------The remaining percentage is devoted towards language skills, proposal, and many other relevant criteria.

So how do you evaluate yourself?

You have to consider a scenerio where just two PhD positions are opened in the Field of Environmental Engineering in one University in Denmark (as example).

Candidate A:

Graduated Undergraduate in China in civil engineering
Graduated Master in Canada in Environmental Science
Publication in reputable Journals : 3
Academically sound conferences attended: 3
Soft skills: Expert skills in environmetal modeling software for development and deployment of spatio-temporal environmental models


Candidate B:

Graduated Undergraduate in Kenya in Environmental chemistry
Graduated Master in Kenya in Environmental Engineering
Research Publication in reputable Journals : 8
Academically sound conferences attended: 5
Soft skills: Expert skills in PCRaster, GIP software, GiKO, Geospatial Dataset Software, ALure mathematical models, Fluent in English


Candidate C:

Graduated Undergraduate in UK in Environmental engineering (Oxford University)
Graduated Master in USA in Environmental Engineering (Harvard University)
Research Publication in reputable Journals : 0
Academically sound conferences attended: 3
Soft skills: Fluent in English, GIPS and GiKO


If you are the chaiman slecting the candidate which candidate will you select: A, B or C?

This will help you evaluate your prepardeness.

Meanwhile, you can easily type PhD scholarships in google in the respective field and find various advertisements, you can register with ResearchGate also for various PhD scholarships and scholarship db website.

Best wishes

COVID-19 Travel Procedures for TRNC for students and others

People entering TRNC are categorized according the countries they are travelling from. The measures implemented by the TRNC Ministry of Health regarding the Covid-19 on the arrival to the TRNC and, the list of categorized countries are as follows:

1. People coming to the TRNC from countries in Category B will be able to enter the country by showing the negative PCR test results they have done between three and five days prior the start of the trip. A second PCR test will be done to such individuals while entering to the TRNC and these individuals are to self-quarantine themselves either in the hotels/dormitories or in a house where they will be staying following their arrival until the PCR test results are back.

2. People travelling from Category C countries are obliged to submit a valid PCR test result (done within the last 3 to 5 days before they travel) while entering TRNC. A second PCR test will be done to Category C passengers and they will be put in a 14-day quarantine in the quarantine centers specified by the Ministry of Health or university dormitories for students free of charge. A third PCR test will be done following the end of the 14-day quarantine period.

Note: Except Mauritius all other African countries are in Category C.

jidoex66:
Thanks for the update prof.

Hopefully the Turkish/TRNC immigration meeting next month will clarify further details on the student as per country risk level Categorization. Afterwards, new student can know more as per flight approvals !!!

Update On COVID in TRNC and Students Arrival

The ministry of education has approved that all returning students and incoming new students can be quarantined in the respective universities dormitories free of charge.

The university will start sending names of prospective students that already paid the initial deposit to various embassies from August.

arafat95:
Good morning guys. I have paid my initial deposit of 1000 euro last week Friday and my school have replied my mail that the money has reflected in the account on Tuesday, and since then I have been expecting them to send my acceptance letter and school fees receipt to me, please,I will like to know the days it normally take schools to send acceptance letter after the initial payment. (CIU)
Thanks

Send email to your school...

teewest100:
Sir is it still allowed to change course during registration sir?

Yes you can

Dharryedu:
Cyprus International University is a great school. It creates a truly international experience by attracting academic and administrative staff from all over the world. There is an emphasis on quality and interactive learning in an atmosphere convivial to study. The University has multiple international links and partnerships, both in the educational and industrial field. As a result, the students are extremely well-positioned when it comes to finding a job after graduation.

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