APIIT awards schols worth Rs. 10 mn.

17-Feb-2008

The Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) awarded 10 scholarships recently for academically promising and financially needy students.

The selected students will follow a study programme in Computing or Business Management at the APIIT City Campus, Colombo, leading to a degree awarded by Staffordshire University, UK.

Each scholarship is worth more than Rs 1 million and covers the cost of education during the entirety of the study programme including the fees payable to Staffordshire University.

The 'APIIT Merit Scholarships' Scheme is an initiative between the World Bank funded 'Improving Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education' (IRQUE) Project and APIIT. The objectives of the scholarship scheme are to support academically deserving students with financial difficulties particularly from rural areas to pursue higher education at APIIT. In order to meet the latter objective, priority is given for applicants from outside Colombo and Kandy districts. Thus, the district, parental income and language competence are considered in addition to A/L performance in the final selection.

Of the 10 scholarships, 6 have been awarded for Computing and 4 for Business Management. The scholars in Computing will follow a BSc (Hons) degree in Computing with specialisation in Software Engineering, Web Development or Multimedia.