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Better to award mid-term scholarshipsBy Goh Wen Zhong NEWS that scholarship boards may be cutting back on the number of annual awards comes as no surprise. I have never been convinced that many 19-year-olds know exactly what they are committing to when they accept a scholarship. Perhaps it would also be true that those boards cannot truly assess the person they are awarding a scholarship to.It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to send a student overseas, and the expenditure has to be justified. To some scholarship holders, it is just a six-year bond in exchange for a chance to study overseas, but to any board, it is a sizeable sum that has to reap returns. Even more so for public boards, where the money comes from public funds. University is a life-changing experience, and all students, scholarship holders or not, graduate a different person. Perspectives, attitudes and character change, and at the end of three years, does the scholarship holder still suit the environment he or she is bonded to? I agree with the move to introduce mid-term scholarships to undergraduates who have served an internship. This way, a more accurate working assessment of the applicant can be made. It also allows scholarship applicants sufficient exposure to the job they are expected to perform after graduation, and decide if that is what they want. The writer is studying for his masters in law at the London School of Economics. kelvin was inspired at 5:53 PM |
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