The Madhvani Foundation has released the shortlist of candidates due
for interviews for the Madhvani Foundation scholarships 2015-2016. This comes
after a month long application period during the month of April and a vigilant
selection process in the month of May 2015.
Making the announcement in a press release today, the Chairman
of the scholarships committee, Mr. Gabriel Opio said “the Foundation received over 1000
applications for scholarships and of these, 300 have been selected for
interviews”.
“We expect to take on a bigger number of beneficiaries compared to last
year because of the increase in the scholarship Fund by 50 million shillings to make 700
million for the scholarship package this year. Our aim is to encourage and
enable science scholars to pursue the much needed disciplines for Uganda’s
Labor market. We realized that many underprivileged and yet academically
brilliant students couldn’t afford these expensive courses. With this boost we
hope to give more opportunity to the academically gifted students” he
added.
Interviews for the shortlisted
candidates will be held from 13th July to 17th July, 2015 at Makerere University
Kampala, Academic Registrar’s Building (Senate Building), Board Room Level VI, between 8:30a.m and 6:00p.m.
The candidates are expected to appear for the interviews at the
exact times indicated on the list which is available for viewing in the website www.madhvanifoundation.com and at the foundation offices at plot
96-98 Fifth street industrial area.
Mr. Roni Madhvani the Director Madhvani Group, cautioned
prospective candidates to watch out for acts of fraud following reports that
unscrupulous individuals were selling application forms for Shs50,000 and
promising to get students onto the shortlist for Shs200,000. “As a
Foundation we conduct our affairs very transparently and do not tolerate any
form of canvassing. During the application period our forms are sold for a
stationery fee of only Shs2,000 shillings at our offices in Industrial Area, while
on the website they can be downloaded for free”
He urged anyone who has
been asked for or paid more than Shs2,000 for the forms to report the matter
and contact the Foundation offices immediately so that they can fortify their
case with the police where the Foundation has already opened a criminal file based
on the unfortunate reports.
He continued “educational fraud is a matter we take very
seriously because it negatively impacts on the generous work the Foundation has
done and is still doing “.
The Madhvani Foundation Scholarship programme is 12 years now,
with a disbursement of over 4 billion shillings to support over 2,000 Ugandan
students studying both scientific and technical courses. The earmarked science
and technical disciplines for sponsorship include Agriculture, Biology,
Chemistry, Actuarial Science, Architecture, Veterinary Medicine, Commerce, Hotel
Management, Pharmacy, Nursing, Engineering, Food Science & Technology,
Information Technology, Environment, and Medicine. The students eligible for the scholarships are needy undergraduate students, who have
completed first year of studies at a Ugandan University; and graduate
applicants who have been either admitted and/or registered for graduate
programmes.
For more information
please visit http://www.madhvanifoundation.com and Contact Beatrice Apoto at admin@madhvanifoundation.com
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