Already before the last grades have been registered on Goolshanoy Talipova’s degree certificate, she knows where her education will take her. She has secured a job as Retail Coordinator with the fashion group Bestseller where she has also spent a large part of her study period.
”It’s an incredibly good place to work. The hierarchy is flat, there is a high level of independence, and you take responsibility for solving your own tasks,” tells the 26 year-old Uzbek who work with e.g. Bestseller’s stores in the Middle East, Turkey and parts of Eastern Europe.
”For a girl like me, it’s fantastic to get permission to work in the fashion industry and deal with new trends and new shop openings all the time,” she says.
Wants to stay
As a matter of fact, it wasn’t her but her husband who wanted to go to Denmark to study. Goolshanoy Talipova could not afford to pay for the programme, but having examined the opportunities she came across VIA University College and the Danish Ministry of Education’s scholarship scheme. She was awarded the scholarship and began in 2004 at the School of Technology and Business in Horsens, Denmark. The first period in Denmark was far from fun.
”I didn’t know anything about Denmark and I was very sad in the beginning. The city seemed empty and the Danes very reserved. I thought about going home, but after I started on the programme everything changed completely. I discovered that Danes simply need to size you up, before they open up. Now I’m really happy with both the city and the people, and we have no plans of moving,” she says.
Have made a difference
Goolshanoy Talipova has attended both the AP Degree in Marketing Management and the Bachelor Programme in Value Chain Management, and she has been awarded scholarships for both programmes. She believes that the scholarships have made a great difference in her life.
”It has provided me with opportunities, education and a job that I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to get. It has been extremely important to me,” she says.
