Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Goa Higher Education to amend "Goa Scholars" to remove anomalies

Prakash Kamat in Panaji
Tuesday, July 2: Goa Higher Education Dept is in the process of amending its flagship educational scholarship scheme"Goa Scholars",meant to promote pursuit of post-graduate studies by younger population of Goa,by way of recognizing the meritorious&outstanding candidates with a Scholarship to undertake Post-graduate (Masters/Doctoral)studies in Institutions of proven excellence,in India or abroad
 The amendments are primarily remove the anomalies which deny level playing field to students from different streams.
Goa Director,Higher Education Prasad Lolienkar told this Blogger that two main amendments to be effected this year itself include:
1. To nullify predominance of engineering students hitherto by virtue of higher marks in the stream as compared to students of other schemes.Scheme will be modified to ensure that other stream students too become eligible.
2. To ensure that cultural marks will get weightage only at the interview,here onwards and not at selection stage as had been happening.www.twitter.com/@PrakashWKamat

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