APART from freeing families of "poor but deserving students" from the financial burden of paying the high cost of tuition fees, educational grants have been made easy to acquire with the emergence of mobile technology.
This holds true with the opening of online applications to scholarships provided by Edukasyon.ph and Punlaan School to women for senior high school (SHS) in hotel and restaurant management for school year 2016-2017 opening this June. The educational technology social enterprise is excited with its alliance with the private technical-vocational (tech-voc) school, Edukasyon.ph CEO Linartes M. Viloria said.
"This will be a big help for our students who want to pursue a career in hotel and restaurant management," she said.
Punlaan School Di re c tor Anna Marie Jacinto said, "We are happy to be working with Edukasyon.ph for our online scholarship applications. We want to reach out to more potential scholars and give more opportunities to senior high-school students nationwide. "
Through this partnership, students can now send the needed information and documents for their applications wherever they may be. With the help of mobile devices, they can apply and submit the requirements by just logging on the site: http:// edukasyon.ph/en/institutions/ the-founda ion-for-professional-training-inc-punlaan-school / quick-apply/new.
"Through our online scholarship application, it will be easier for them to apply online from their homes, mobile phones or computer centers to this scholarship. No need to travel all the way to school to apply," Viloria said.
For the school year 2016-2017, there are 80 available slots for full scholarship for Filipino women, with benefits such as free tuition fee, free laboratory ingredients and transportation allowance starting on the seventh month.
"It will be a challenge to occupy the slots before the May 6 deadline, but it is a challenge we gladly take on, because our partnership with Edukasyon.ph expedites the application process, taking the process online. We are excited to meet more applicants and change more lives of young women through these educational opportunities," Jacinto said.
Edukasyon.ph was formed in 2013 by French-Filipino Henry Motte-Muñoz, a graduate of the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School, the only Filipino who made it to the Class of 2015 Asia 21 Young Leaders, and one of 10 Filipinos included in the Forbes 30 under 30.
He was inspired to launch an education web site in the country because of the poor sources of information on academic opportunities in the country and overseas.
A pioneer school in the German model of dual training in hotel and management industry, Punlaan offers t raining programs in hospital it y and culinary arts.
It was granted a permit by the Department of Education to offer the tech-voc track in hospitality and culinary arts, an enhanced dual training program in food and beverage services. Under the program, the school integrates theory and hands-on experience throughout the year in-school phase and 12 months on-the-job training (OJT) in any of its over 70 hotel and restaurant partners.
Motte-Muñoz expressed elation by the tie-up between the two organizations, saying that this is helpful not only for the students it caters to, but also for the whole education-reform movement.
"This signals that slowly, people are increasingly investing in Philippine education. It is our sincerest hope that this partnership with Punlaan School not only springboards future partnerships with other scholarship-granting bodies, but also to inspire Filipinos to make educated choices in their education and career through Edukasyon.ph," he said.
Source: Scholarships for female SHS students now open
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