The offices of La Hay Global University for Journalism and Media worldwide.

In order to make the highly distinguished scientific specialities that the LGUJM offers available worldwide, and in order to achieve a continuous constructive communication with the students as well as with its associates, the university has adopted the policy of erecting various offices in different Arab and European countries, where most of the staff and the registered students reside. These offices seem to be dispersed points; yet they represent a communicative network linked to the headquarters of the university in the Netherlands.

The general missions of our offices

The mission of these offices can be summarized as follow:

1- Representing LGUJM in the country where it has an office. It is then the mouth speaker of the university, and its representative for everything that has to do with the students’ affairs.

2- Securing a direct communication with the student, so as to convey that the university is near form him though its location is in the Netherlands.

3- Provide a source of advertisement for the university in the place where its representatives operate. Yet this advertisement does not in any way transgress the local policy of the host country. Actually, the mission of the university is ultimately dedicated to science and academic research .

4- Providing the student with multiple services: introducing him to the university, helping him register in one of the programs it offers.

Services of our offices

In fact, the services that our offices offer depend largely on the demand it receives on the part of the students and the interested public. Therefore, these offices will formally operate in the beginning using communicative facilities such as the telephone and the internet. But as soon as the number of the registered students rises, the university will work on opening a building for every office in different countries and cities depending on the number of the registered students.

However, it is possible to map out the main communicative and administrative services that the university offices offer as follow:

1- The offices endeavour to be very active in the countries and the cities where they are located. This will be achieved through positive and sincere advertising projects using the modern methods of publicity. These include sending electronic mails, television, classified advertising, distributing prospectuses and the like. All this will be conducted in a way that does not breach the norms and the regulations of the countries where our offices are located. Indeed, the university will forge contacts in the form of friendly cultural relationships with the local authorities of those countries.

2- The offices will fully introduce the student to the university: its mission, its work, its planning, and the courses it offers. Then, they will help him register in one of its specialities in a clear and practical way without any uncertainty or confusion.

 3- As far as the registration process is concerned, the offices will provide the student with an application form and a list of the courses and the specialities available at the university. The student will then be introduced to the different stages of the enrolment process and its prerequisites as it is stated in the website of the university, or in its prospectus. The preliminary admission requires: filling the application form, a copy of the identity card, a copy of the last awarded degree or certificate and four photos.

Some days later, the student will receive either a letter or an e- mail confirming his preliminary admission. Alternatively, the registration commission in the headquarters of the university will be studying carefully his dossier after receiving it either from its offices or directly from the student himself.  Then, the latter will receive the final admission, the literature, the student card and the name of his supervisor after paying the required tuition fees or a part of it.

4- The offices will compose a file, either in a hard or a soft version, for every student whereby all the relevant information related to him is gathered. This will enable the offices to interact easily and professionally with both the university and the student.

5- Our offices will provide the student with accurate information related to tuition fees payment. This will be carried out either through a direct money transfer in one of the banks in the Netherlands, or using the bank account  of the university  in the country where he resides, or through the university agent in that country. In the latter case, the student will receive a receipt confirming his payment. The university will inform the student with the payment immediately after the transfer is being completed. The university prepares a document confirming his payment. One copy of this document will be saved in the student’s file at the university headquarters, another copy will be sent to the relevant office, and another one to the student.

6- Our offices contribute in helping the student create, for his studies, an atmosphere of live communication, easiness, and flexibility. They are equally aimed at solving any administrative or educational problem than might occur during his studies. Our offices are also entitled to respond to all the enquiries of the student, either directly, or through referring him to the relevant department of the university.

7- The university will seek advice from its representatives and from the directors of its offices since they belong to the intellectual elite. Actually, the university will consult them on any issue related to the university, its offices or its students in the country where the former are located.

8- The directors of our offices help the university in different scientific projects it promotes, such as making the curricula, developing the teaching methodologies, composition and correction of the exams, supervising the students and their research papers such as monographs and theses.

9- In their work, our offices take indeed inspiration from the general mission to which LGUJM is dedicated. The latter is a no- profitable scientific institution which relies essentially on voluntary work. This does not mean that anyone who works for the university is automatically deprived from any remuneration be it financial or immaterial. Indeed, LGUJM devotes an honourable percentage for any agent who helps a student register. Likewise, every administrative or scientific service its offices offer will be paid for, let alone the symbolic remuneration LGUJM proposes. The latter includes certificates of merit, attending the conferences that LGUJM organises, the discount it proposes for any director or agent of any office who would like to register in one of the courses LGUJM offers.

10- The directors of our offices are supposed to write an annual or semi-annual global reportconcerning their activities, and whereby they include  a list of the names of all the students that have been registered through their participation.

11- The university has the right to close down any office or change its director if the conditions set by the university are not met, or if the office in question does not appeal positively to the public.