COIMBATORE: To attract more Indian students to the United Kingdom, the GREAT Britain
Campaign (GREAT), today announced its "largest ever" scholarship
programme for India worth almost one million Pounds (about Rs 100
million) for the coming academic year.
Announcing the scheme, Andrew Soper, Counsellor (Prosperity), British High Commission, Delhi, told reporters here that there would be 370 scholarships for 260 Undergraduate and Post Graduate Course in England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.
The courses offered ranged from Engineering, Law and Business to Art and Design, Biosciences and IT and the scholarship will be tenable for Sept 2014 and Jan 2015 intakes, Soper said.
Stating that there was good market and demand for higher education in India, which was growing, he said that foreign students studied in England got significantly higher salary than in any part of the globe.
Moreover, the students can continue to stay in England and can get visa to work for three years with a minimum salary of 20,000 Pounds a year, which can be extended for another three years, he said.
When asked how the local students looked upon the challenge from foreign students, particularly India, Soper said that the Government has taken stringent steps to protect them, who can feel their place of study and the Nation as 'home away home.
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Announcing the scheme, Andrew Soper, Counsellor (Prosperity), British High Commission, Delhi, told reporters here that there would be 370 scholarships for 260 Undergraduate and Post Graduate Course in England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.
The courses offered ranged from Engineering, Law and Business to Art and Design, Biosciences and IT and the scholarship will be tenable for Sept 2014 and Jan 2015 intakes, Soper said.
Stating that there was good market and demand for higher education in India, which was growing, he said that foreign students studied in England got significantly higher salary than in any part of the globe.
Moreover, the students can continue to stay in England and can get visa to work for three years with a minimum salary of 20,000 Pounds a year, which can be extended for another three years, he said.
When asked how the local students looked upon the challenge from foreign students, particularly India, Soper said that the Government has taken stringent steps to protect them, who can feel their place of study and the Nation as 'home away home.
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