TSI CALLS FOR FAIRNESS OVER SCHOLARSHIPS

TSI CALLS FOR FAIRNESS OVER SCHOLARSHIPS

Posted by : Posted on : 05-Mar-2019

TSI: be fair on scholarships

Quoting the Solomon Star newspaper – 5 March 2019

“TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) has called for greater transparency in the National Training Committee (NTC) and National Training Unit (NTU) when awarding scholarships.

“It added scholarship awards must be based on merit, not preference.

“Recent termination of 179 students studying in USP at Laucala Campus in Fiji is a clear manifestation of awarding scholarship to students who doesn’t meet the scholarship selection criteria,” TSI said in a statement.

“TSI was informed by sources close to NTU that a number of parents, individuals and some MPs bribed some officers in NTU to fast track their award letters of students despite their low GPA’s,” it added.

“The termination demonstrates MEHRD’s seriousness and commitment to ensure students performed well during their study in various institutions in the region.

“We laud the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, particularly the Permanent Secretary Dr Franco Rodie, for the decision.

“The PS took that step in the right direction, in line with government policy to ensure students performed to standard as expected.”

“TSI said the government continues to spend millions of fund from tax- payers in this country for scholarship every year.”

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