01-02-2012, 12:35 AM
Hello,
this is Dr. Muhammad Schmidt writing again after a couple of years.
First of all, my best wishes for a happy, blessed and successful New Year to all of you!
I have some news regarding IFTS and some other personal matters:
After several years of being in the process of applying for an interim university charter from the Kenyan government (issued by the Kenyan Commission for Higher Education as the competent body), we are done and expect to receive the government documents in January 2012. The process had been finalised some months before in 2011, but in Kenya it takes time - too much time perhaps sometimes - to get the respective documents issued to have them in hand.
This new year 2012 will be our seventh year of operation in Kenya and some other countries, and we have gradually developed from a Far Distance school into one with students physically present in class without totally giving up the Far Distance study option. While in the beginnng IFTS mainly served the less fortunate parts of the population in Kenya, we have been increasingly serving people from middle-class backgrounds upwards in the past years. One of our current students there is a highly respected Member of Parliament.
Some of our former graduates at Bachelor level made their way by transferring to other recognised schools like the Catholic University of East Africa (Nairobi) for advanced degrees, now serving as Secondary school principals with a good and stable income with the means to sponsor other, poorer student at IFTS. IFTS is the only interdenominational school in Kenya whose theological degree program is recognised by the official Anglican Church of Kenya for their clergy to be ordained into the deaconate and priesthood. The same for the training of Anglican military chaplains of the Kenyan army.
Some of our former graduates work as Lecturers for other legitimate theological schools. Most of the theses our advanced graduates submitted have been published, sold and generate a stable income to cover our expenses to keep the school going.
We have been donated a piece of land to erect our own buildings there, and there are plans to affiliate with another ministry from the US with plans to build a new university there with funding from the US. It remains to be seen how these plans will materialise in one way or the other.
In February or March this year, I am looking forward to another appointment as a professor at a Chinese university. I was offered a position as one of their Associate Professors with a tenure period of 2 years, which may be prolonged under mutual consent. It seems that some of my published works regarding Chinese language, culture and traditional medicine have not remained quite unnoticed in China, and the university in question actually expects me to continue publishing stuff like that but to include the name of that university and the department where I will be working in any such future publications.
I am far from intending to blow my own trumpet here, but as of one of the former targets and later victims of the stalking gang on the "other board" with figures like the deceased uncle, pretenders like Bill Grover, Levicoff and their likes, it must be quite a change in "career" for an accused "degree millist", "pompous pope", "evil person" and fake degree holder that they claimed I am.
Is it perhaps possible that these self-styled "experts" have been wrong in their "assessment" of people they do not know and have never met at all?
Again, a happy new Year to all of you!
this is Dr. Muhammad Schmidt writing again after a couple of years.
First of all, my best wishes for a happy, blessed and successful New Year to all of you!
I have some news regarding IFTS and some other personal matters:
After several years of being in the process of applying for an interim university charter from the Kenyan government (issued by the Kenyan Commission for Higher Education as the competent body), we are done and expect to receive the government documents in January 2012. The process had been finalised some months before in 2011, but in Kenya it takes time - too much time perhaps sometimes - to get the respective documents issued to have them in hand.
This new year 2012 will be our seventh year of operation in Kenya and some other countries, and we have gradually developed from a Far Distance school into one with students physically present in class without totally giving up the Far Distance study option. While in the beginnng IFTS mainly served the less fortunate parts of the population in Kenya, we have been increasingly serving people from middle-class backgrounds upwards in the past years. One of our current students there is a highly respected Member of Parliament.
Some of our former graduates at Bachelor level made their way by transferring to other recognised schools like the Catholic University of East Africa (Nairobi) for advanced degrees, now serving as Secondary school principals with a good and stable income with the means to sponsor other, poorer student at IFTS. IFTS is the only interdenominational school in Kenya whose theological degree program is recognised by the official Anglican Church of Kenya for their clergy to be ordained into the deaconate and priesthood. The same for the training of Anglican military chaplains of the Kenyan army.
Some of our former graduates work as Lecturers for other legitimate theological schools. Most of the theses our advanced graduates submitted have been published, sold and generate a stable income to cover our expenses to keep the school going.
We have been donated a piece of land to erect our own buildings there, and there are plans to affiliate with another ministry from the US with plans to build a new university there with funding from the US. It remains to be seen how these plans will materialise in one way or the other.
In February or March this year, I am looking forward to another appointment as a professor at a Chinese university. I was offered a position as one of their Associate Professors with a tenure period of 2 years, which may be prolonged under mutual consent. It seems that some of my published works regarding Chinese language, culture and traditional medicine have not remained quite unnoticed in China, and the university in question actually expects me to continue publishing stuff like that but to include the name of that university and the department where I will be working in any such future publications.
I am far from intending to blow my own trumpet here, but as of one of the former targets and later victims of the stalking gang on the "other board" with figures like the deceased uncle, pretenders like Bill Grover, Levicoff and their likes, it must be quite a change in "career" for an accused "degree millist", "pompous pope", "evil person" and fake degree holder that they claimed I am.
Is it perhaps possible that these self-styled "experts" have been wrong in their "assessment" of people they do not know and have never met at all?
Again, a happy new Year to all of you!
