Scholarships update! August 2023
Scholarships update as part of the Quality Education Programme.
We support scholarships to help children complete their education. The scholarships are helping produce doctors, environmentalists, engineers, teachers, health workers, and community leaders, to help address skills shortages in the region.The overall goal of scholarships is to improve retention of teachers and students’ learning continuity in higher grades.
Salary Support
As part of QEPS HTNZ through HTN continues to support 17 teachers’ salary in 11 schools.
Qualified and literate teachers are retained in the area: Continued salary grant support to retain 17 teachers in 11 different community schools. The teachers have been contributing actively in teaching and learning activities in the classroom during this quarter.
Student Scholarships
Continued Sir Edmund Hillary Memorial Scholarship to 48 students (21 boys/27 girls) to study in grade 11 and 12. Similarly, the Himalayan Trust bachelor level scholarship to 13 students (5 girls and 8 boys), and joint scholarship programme of KPLRM and HT bachelor level scholarship to 7 students (1 girl and 6 boys) have been continued. Out of five students (4 for KPLRM and HT scholarship, and one for HT bachelor level scholarship) selected in previous quarter, only one student could pass the entrance exam and admitted to college, and other four were not successful.
The scholarship support has been instrumental in continuing student’s further study and has been well received showing better progression of students into higher grades and tertiary education.
Increased participation and retention of all students and teachers: Scholarship support has been very useful for needy students to continue the study at higher grades and tertiary education. Students could continue their education during time of loss of their parent’s income due to COVID pandemic. Similarly, teacher salary grants helped retain 17 qualified teachers in the schools and actively contributed in improving students’ learning achievements.