PHILIPSBURG–Thirty-three St. Maarten students will be saying goodbye to their families and friends today as they leave the country to pursue their tertiary studies in the Netherlands.
The 33 students will depart aboard KLM at 4:25pm. Students will be pursuing studies in a number of areas, including information technology, tourism management, psychology, international and European law, and physiotherapy, senior study-financing policy advisor Calvin B. Mardembrough said on Thursday.
Study cities include Eindhoven, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Ede, Leeuwarden, Rotterdam, Leiden and Arnhem.
The students will be accompanied by a senior study financing officer. Unified St Maarten Connection (USC) has once again been charged with organising the customary reception activities on the students’ arrival and an orientation week in collaboration with the Division Study Financing.
The official activities will begin on Monday, July 30, and continue through August 4, during which time the new students will receive vital information from Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs and the insurance company Insure to Study.
Mardembrough said students will also participate in a budgeting and academics workshop. Along with assigned study financing guidance counsellors and volunteers, the new students are expected explore their study cities, open bank accounts, register at the civil registries, visit and register at their schools, move into their apartments, purchase their furniture, furnish and paint their rooms.
The week will be closed off with some fun activities, he said.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/79000-33-students-leave-for-holland-today
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