UAE: Over 300 students apply in first year of Dh1.1 billion Hamdan bin Mohammed Scholarship Programme

UAE: Over 300 students apply in first year of Dh1.1 billion Hamdan bin Mohammed Scholarship Programme

Dubai: A total of 321 Emirati students from schools across the UAE have applied in the first year of the Dh1.1 billion Hamdan bin Mohammed Scholarship Programme.

The Programme was launched by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai.

Launched as part of the Dubai Social Agenda 33, with an endowment of Dh1.1 billion, the initiative will provide 100 scholarships annually to Emirati students who are accepted to top universities around the world.

In the first year, a total of 164 male and 157 female students applied for the scholarship. Students from American curriculum schools accounted for the highest number of applicants at 60 per cent of total applicants, followed by 13 per cent each from British curriculum schools and Ministry of Education curriculum schools, and 11 per cent from International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum schools.

First meeting

The details were announced as the steering committee for the Hamdan bin Mohammed Scholarship Programme hosted its first meeting to review the programme’s achievements since its launch on January 22.

The meeting was headed by Aisha Abdullah Miran, Director-General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), and was attended