Poor students get UGM scholarship

Poor students get UGM scholarship

YOGYAKARTA: New students at Gadjah Mada University who come from socially disadvantaged families are eligible to receive a scholarship from the university's alumni, UGM Rector Sofian Effendi said.

Sofian said the scholarship, called the UGM Care Scholarship, would be given to students whose family's monthly income was less than Rp 1 million and there were at least three other children in the family.

The university has accepted 4,412 new students for the 2002/2003 academic year. Sofian said the scholarship would also help some 795 candidates who had not registered due to financial problems.

Ten percent or some 4,419 of UGM students were recipients of the Rp 4.2 billion worth of scholarship funds provided every year by alumni and 60 other institutions or governmental groups. --JP