Our Reporter
The Madhvani Foundation has released the shortlist of candidates due for interviews for the Madhvani Foundation scholarships 2015-2016. This comes after a month long application period during the month of April and a vigilant selection process in the month of May 2015.
Making the announcement in a press release today, the Chairman of the scholarships committee, Gabriel Opio said the Foundation received over 1000 applications for scholarships and of these, 300 have been selected for interviews.
“We expect to take on a bigger number of beneficiaries compared to last year because of the increase in the scholarship Fund by 50 million shillings to make 700 million for the scholarship package this year. Our aim is to encourage and enable science scholars to pursue the much needed disciplines for Uganda’s Labor market. We realized that many underprivileged and yet academically brilliant students couldn’t afford these expensive courses. With this boost we hope to give more opportunity to the academically gifted students,
