Scholarships: HEC to support 6,000 students

These scholarships would be awarded to talented but financially constrained students.

ISLAMABAD:
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to award 6,000 scholarships to deserving students from different parts of the country under the HEC merit and needs-based scholarship programme during the next three years. These scholarships would be awarded to talented but financially constrained students especially those from rural areas so as to ensure greater equity in enrollment at different public sector higher education institutions (HEIs) throughout the country.


Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2012.