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Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has congratulated and promised postgraduate scholarship to the first class graduates of the Kano State University of Science and Technology, KUST.
The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
PhD training will be carried out in English at your chosen lab at
A*STAR Research Institutes, NTU, NUS or SUTD. Students will be supervised by distinguished and world-renowned researchers in these labs. Upon successful completion, students will be conferred a PhD degree by either NTU, NUS or SUTD.
Eligibility Requirements:
Open for application by all international students
Graduates with a passion for research and excellent academic results
Good skills in written and spoken English
Good reports from academic referees
Benefits:
Attractive monthly stipend over 4 years of PhD studies, which can support you comfortably. The stipend amount is SGD 24,000 annually, to be increased to SGD 30,000 after passing Qualifying Examination.
Full support for tuition fees for 4 years of PhD studies.
One-time SGD 1,000 Settling-in Allowance
One-time Airfare Grant of SGD 1,500
Application Procedure:
Softcopies of the following supporting documents must be uploaded during your online application
Compulsory:
Identity card or Passport
A recent passport-sized photo in JPEG/PNG format
Bachelor’s Academic Transcripts (in English translation)
Bachelor’s Degree Certificate / Scroll (in English translation) or a letter of certification from the university on your candidature if your degree certificate / scroll has not yet been conferred
Master’s Academic Transcripts, if any (in English translation)
Master’s Degree Certificate / Scroll, if any (in English translation) or a letter of certification from the university on your candidature if your degree certificate / scroll has not yet been conferred
2 recommendation reports (to be completed and submitted online by the referees)
Not compulsory but good to include (if available):
GRE / IELTS / TOEFL / SAT I & II / GATE results.
To begin registration immediately click here
For More Information: https://www.a-star.edu.sg/singa-award/The-Awards.aspx
GRE is an acronym for Graduate Record Examination. It is a well standardized academic test, used as an admission criteria for postgraduate schools. GRE is a requirement for (post) graduate entry, at Masters or Doctoral (Ph.D) study in the U.S, Canada, Europe and is increasingly being adopted in Asia-pacific and Africa, hopefully, in Nigeria soon.
The Federal Government on Friday announced that it had stopped postgraduate training programmes for Nigerian lecturers and scholarship awards to students to study in “mushroom” and low-ranking universities abroad.
The decision takes effect from this year, 2017.
The government also condemned a situation in the past where lecturers were sent by their institutions to study in “mushroom and bottom-of-the-league universities abroad”, under the Academic Staff Training and Development intervention of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund programme.
The Executive Secretary of TETFUND, Dr Abdullahi Baffa, said this in Abuja when he received the leadership of Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria led by its chairman, Chuks Ukwuatu.
He said, “From 2017, we have stopped all that, public funds would only be spent to train scholars in top-of-the-league universities across the world.
“We are sending scholars to pursue higher degrees abroad but we are not putting the interest of the country in trying to know what these scholars are studying and where they are going.
“Our scholars who are supposed to be teaching and conducting research in tertiary instructions, who are supposed to be training and supporting the provision of high level manpower that would drive the nation’s economy should be trained in the best universities in the world.”
According to him, TETFUND has also stopped the beneficiary institutions from sending their scholars to attend mushroom conferences, warning that public funds would only be spent to support scholars in attending real academic conferences.
It was an evening of excitement and celebration as successful as 2016/17 Chevening awardees from Nigeria mingle with the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, and past Chevening Scholars from Nigeria.
“I think it’s a global opportunity to meet with other scholars and to be a part of the alumni, and above all to be able to get the investment where you can come back and develop Nigeria as a whole, so, it’s been a fantastic opportunity, and I am happy to be privileged to be a part of the global network,” she said excitedly.
This year, Nigeria had the most applications for Chevening scholarship, about 4000. The High Commissioner also stressed on the importance of funding the programme so that more Nigerians could be beneficiaries as he called on the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to encourage their best to apply for a Chevening scholarship, as the scholarship needs more people in the civil service and government sectors.
Big names such as Channels television’s John Momoh, Nigeria’s Comptroller general of Immigration and many more have benefitted from the awards, including the Ministry of Foreign affairs Permanent Secretary, Audu-Rafiu Olusola Enikanolaiye. Supporting the network would in turn not just aid social networking, but provide opportunities for future generations of Nigerians.
Credit: Leadership News
