US to provide 10,200 schols

The Higher Education Ministry has implemented several programs to ensure that students entering universities are integrated to society as universal children.

On the initiative of Minister S B Dissanayake the US Embassy has agreed to assist this program by providing 10,200 scholarships to improve the English knowledge and skills of undergraduates.

A Ministry release said students who follow an English course at the respective universities will be selected for these scholarships on the results of an examination held at the conclusion of the course.

These scholarships will be awarded by a reputed distant education institute named ‘English First: English Town’ which has 400 branches in 50 countries with a total staff of 34,000 and a student population of nearly five million.