ACTING Vice Chancellor of the Solomon Islands National University (SINU), Dr Jack Maebuta has humbly requested the Government to increase the scholarship awards for the local University to 30 percent.
Dr Jack had humbly made the request during the official opening of the SINU, Faculty of Education and Humanities (FEH) complex, at Panatina campus, Wednesday.
He said students who are assisted with scholarships only accounts for 7.5% of the total enrollment.
“In 2020, SIG awarded 640 scholarships and in this year it was reduced to 617,” said Dr Jack.
He added there are merited students who are struggling to pay for their fees.
“I would like to humbly request the Government as they have indicated that it will increase SINU’s operation grant to $60M and $100M for development grant in 2022 that they do likewise to scholarship awards. That is if they can increase the scholarship to at least 30 percent or more of SINU’s enrolment,” Mr Maebuta said.
Also he added other alternatives would be that companies sponsor 10 students each and some form of tax initiatives can be granted by the government.
By ESTHER NURIA
Newsroom, Honiara
