Scholarships for school students

Scholarships for school students

JAKARTA: In a bid to ease the burden of students entering
vocational schools, the Ministry of National Education plans to
disburse scholarships to 180,000 students entering school this
year.

"The scholarships, covering monthly tuition fees of around Rp
30,000 (US$3.19), will be given to bright students nationwide who
are economically weak or have excellent records," the national
education ministry's director of vocational education Gatot Hari
Priowirjanto told a press conference on Monday.

Some 5,000 vocational schools can recommend up to 20 percent
of there first grade students to receive the funding that will
start in the next educational year.

"However, we will increase the quota for vocational schools
for arts and farming by 50 percent to urge more students to come
in as the number (of students in these areas) has been
decreasing," he said. -- JP