One hundred needy students of the NED University of Engineering and Technology will be given scholarships by the Koshish Foundation, a nonprofit registered in California and in Pakistan.
A ceremony will be held at the university on March 21.
The organisation will also introduce a programme of educational DVDs that cover science subjects, including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science according to the Sindh Textbook Board’s syllabus.
During a press conference on Monday at the Karachi Press Club, Koshish members said that education in Sindh faced different challenges, including a shortage of good science teachers in public schools. Students can’t complete their courses because of strikes, floods, a fluctuating law and order situation and many parents can’t afford private tuition fees to help them make up for the deficit. These DVDs hope to fill that gap.
Anees Ahmed Khan of Koshish said that these DVDs would be given to students of classes 9 and 10 across the province. “There are around 465,000 enrolled students in four boards of Sindh and we’ll distribute DVDs in Mathematics from July,” he said.
To start off with, 25 NED students will be given full scholarships and the remaining will be completed in four consecutive years. “There is potential among the students of the province but the lack of financial support hinders their ability to acquire a quality education,” he added. Koshish is managed by a group of Pakistani-American entrepreneurs based in the Silicon Valley. They are motivated by giving back to institutions and communities they benefited from.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2012.
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can anyone tell me scholorship kitni % hai?
can anyone one tell me scholorship kitni % hai for NED students.