CHED sets scholarships for ‘lifelong learners’

EDUCATION TRENDS

Janelle Q. Janipin

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Commission on Higher Education is now offering scholarship opportunities for “lifelong learners” as a part of the K to 12 Transition Program.

Lifelong learners are the students who graduated from high-school before 2016 under the old curriculum and for those who did not enter college level.

CHED offers this opportunity for the lifelong learners for them to study at college level and encourage them to enroll this schoolyear 2017-2018 for them not to join senior high-school for two more years.

They can apply for full scholarship, partial scholarship or private education student financial assistance (PESFA) scholarship.

General qualifications for lifelong learners: you should be a Filipino citizen, high-school graduate, candidate for graduation with earned units in college, passer of ALS/PEPT, availed of only one CHED scholarship or financial assistance program; not a graduate of any degree program and  combined annual gross income of parents/guardian don’t exceed P300,000  (in highly exceptional cases where income exceeds P300,000, the CHEDRO StuFAPs committee shall determine merits of the application).

The course under the said program are information technology, agriculture and related fields, teacher education majors, science and math, engineering, health sciences, arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, business administration and related courses, architecture, maritime, communication  and others to be determined by the Ched regional office.

If the student is qualified to be part of the scholarship they need to answer the Ched StuFAPs application form and directly submit it along with other requirements to state university and colleges where they are enrolled.

The application for lifelong learners will be this month until April.

The Ched regional offices will release results on August and September this year.