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A determined post-grad student: if you can’t interview them, join them

Determined is the word that comes to mind listening to the story of Said Zohairy who will graduate next week with a Doctor of Education from the University of Canterbury’s (UC) College of Education, Health and Human Development.

From right – Said Zohairy, Naglaa Abdo and three of their four children.

Originally from Egypt, Zohairy and his wife Naglaa Abdo (with then two children; Ahmad and Gomana) were settled in a comfortable life in Saudi Arabia, where they both worked at a university, when they decided to pack up and come to Christchurch.

“People said ‘you’re crazy leaving your life here and going somewhere you hardly know’. The question of why I left my job and my life to come here, to study, work part time, hardly making ends meet, is still hard to answer,” Zohairy says.

Now, years later, Zohairy has completed his qualification and has a full time job supporting international students at Lincoln University, however it has not been easy.

The topic he agreed for his thesis with Pro-Vice Chancellor Letitia Fickel was in-service professional learning and development in Private Training Establishments (PTEs), an overlooked area of research in the education sector.

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