L
ike most developing nations of Africa, Burkina Faso is a nation that is in its early stages of developing a robust educational infrastructure that focuses on primary, secondary, tertiary, as well as vocational systems of education. The problems and challenges faced in doing this revolve around the typical demographic reasons, common to most developing African nations that are – the lack of adequate human resources, funds and certain focused ethno-regional conflicts. Although several steps have been taken to increase access to basic education in the most remote rural areas of Burkina Faso to develop teacher competencies and promote girl education, the basic troubles of an underdeveloped educational infrastructure remain. As a result, Burkina students often look to countries like India to pursue their higher education, and Sharda University of Greater Noida, India, provides a lucrative option for such Burkina students.
The foreign education diaspora in Burkina Faso
With the advent of the modern technological age in academic as well as professional pathways, several organisations have had to conduct expensive training and development in order to close the skill gaps of their existing employees and bring them up to date with the latest technologies. The fact that more than 70% of Burkina Faso’s population live in rural areas has created additional challenges for students and professionals in these areas to gain access to modern infrastructure for such adult education. Hence, it has been noted that a large percentage of Burkina students migrate to Asian countries to pursue their higher education and equip themselves with professional competencies in line with the requirements of the current international job market. Sharda University
What makes Sharda University apt for Burkina students?
Spanning a massive 63 acres plot size, the Greater Noida campus of Sharda University comprises several individual schools in a wide range of disciplines and an attached in-campus residential complex for students who wish to reside within the university campus for ease of logistics. The university boasts of 5 separate buildings each that have been designated as hostels for boys and girls respectively along with another dedicated hostel for postgraduate students. These hostels are equipped with 24 hours of electricity, water and internet connection as well as all the modern state-of-the-art facilities that Burkina students can enjoy as supplements to their wholesome educational experience at Sharda University.
The cosmopolitical campus life at Sharda University
Alumni are proof that students from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire prefer Sharda University over others because of its rich campus experience. Burkina students can enjoy the luxuries of restaurants, cafeterias, medical services, Wi-Fi connection, laundry services and even a grocery at the Sharda University campus. These additional campus facilities coupled with the extraordinarily robust curriculum of education followed at Sharda University have attracted a culturally diverse student population, making it a truly global university suitable for Burkina students.
