Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Rabi-ul-Sani 29, 1429    

HEC provides scholarships to 300 poor students

Islamabad—The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has successfully completed award of scholarships to 300 outstanding but non-affording students, through its project ‘Financial Support for Meritorious Needy Students’.

The objective of the initiative was to provide the talented youth an opportunity to carry on their higher education without facing any financial burden.

Under the project, 300 scholarships have been provided to the meritorious but needy students in the field of Life Sciences covering the courses like Pharm-D, Bio-Technology, Bio-Medics, Bio-Medical Engineering, Bio-Informatics and Genetics.

Other main component of the programme was to establish 12 Students Financial Aid Offices (SFAO) at the participating universities.The programme has successfully awarded all the provisioned scholarships to the students as well as established SFAOs at the identified locations. In this regard, a meeting of the National Scholarship Management Committee was held at HEC Secretariat to award the last 135 scholarships.

Prof. Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director, HEC, in his address, asked the representatives of the universities to be focused to attract more financial assistance from Alumni of the universities, industrialists, businessmen and other stakeholders for needy students as basic institutional support has been developed in the form of SFAO and other financial assessment tools are also there to assist the deserving students.—APP