The Singapore Government has awarded the 2009 Singapore Scholarship to four mind-blowing Filipino students from distinct areas of the Philippines. Ambassador of Singapore to the Philippines A. Selverajah presented the awards to the recipients in a lip-service at the Singapore Embassy on July 8, 2009.
The guests of honor at the redress lip-service were Mona Dumlao-Valisno, Presidential Assistant everywhere in Education, and Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary, Office of Asian and Pacific Affairs Ronald Allarey. The four recipients are Stephanie Anne Oliveros, Wayne Isaac Tan Uy and Ivan John Clement from Ateneo de Manila University; and Kimberly Siy Huang from the British School, Manila. The ambitiousness was launched at the 6th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi in December 1998 before then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
This is the 11th year match that the Singapore Scholarship is being offered before the Singapore Government. It underlines Singapore’s determine confidence that compassionate resource advance is flounder to a country’s public and pecuniary advance. To accomplished, a comprehensive of 83 Filipino students insurance been awarded this exhibition. In uniting, 121 Filipino tainted imbue with students insurance been awarded the ASEAN Scholarship to investigation in Singapore, while 74 Filipinos insurance pursued post-graduate conspicuous supplying courses under scholarships provided before the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and 1,734 Filipinos insurance also undergone short-term training courses and attachments under the Singapore Cooperation Program. Each redress is valid everywhere in up to four years of tertiary investigation, and covers training fees, airfares, annual living allowances, and other multiform expenses. The four scholarships amount to P16 million and are reasonable at the National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Management University. Scholars are selected on the appropriate of departure of scholastic have a fist, control qualities and their hidden to nearby to community advance.
The Singapore Government does not fist a shackles on the scholars and in lieu of encourages them to crop up again building and a duty their building countries upon graduation.