• YES Winner/Sponsor: 2008 (Spain
Administration)
• Name/First name: HUMEIDA Yousif
• Age: 23
• Country of Origin: Sudan
• Country of Study: United Kingdom
• Present Country: United Kingdom
• Current degree: MSc Electronic Communication and
Computer Engineering, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
I have graduated from the University of Khartoum, department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering in 2007 with a first class degree. Due to my good
undergraduate performance, I was awarded the vice-chancellors price for direct
appointment as a teaching assistant staff in my department. As part of the
higher education body in my country Sudan, I was always taken up by our
educational and industrial problems as a developing country.
Therefore, I decided to explore the world and get higher degrees from already
developed countries, like the United Kingdom. I was awarded a scholarship called
"Developing Solutions Taught Masters Scholarship for Africa" from the University
of Nottingham which covered a great part of the tuition fees and the YES
scholarship completed the remaining. I learned about the YES scholarship from a
2005 YES winner, Yousif Izzeldin Kamil, from Sudan.
Studying in the United Kingdom, which was a dream before the help of ITU, has
broadened my thinking and gave me a great insight into how educational
institutions and industrial bodies are managed to make the most of the available
resources and maintain the high living standards in such developed countries
like the United Kingdom. Because of YES, I became part of a research that
depends on a mutual collaboration with the industry and that showed me how this
collaboration matures the scientific research to be used in many industrial
fields, such as telecommunication and computer engineering.
After returning back to Sudan, I will work as a lecturer in University of
Khartoum. I hope to reflect all the knowledge and experiences that I gained from
my stay in the United Kingdom and help in our long struggle to achieve
prosperity.
I really appreciate that some organizations, like the ITU, have the awareness
about their roles towards developing the world and how they fulfill them through
such schemes, like the YES Project.
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