Shell provides scholarship

JAKARTA (JP): Dutch oil company Shell has allocated 10 million pounds (US$16.5 million) in scholarship funds for students in developing countries, including Indonesia, who want to pursue studies in Britain.

The company said in a statement on Tuesday that the fund was established in 1997 to mark the centenary anniversary of the Shell Transport & Trading Company.

The scholarship is provided to students wishing to study applied science and technology, environmental science, business management or law and economics in a one-year graduate course at the University of Cambridge, the University of Durham, the University of Edinburgh, the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, the University of Oxford or the University College of London.

Interested students should send their applications to one of these universities for the winter semester starting Oct. 2000.

Andy Santoso from Indonesia will study computers at the Cambridge University under this scholarship program this year, the company said. (jsk)