For the 2023/2024 educational yr, St. Lucia’s Division of Infrastructure, Ports and Transport beneath its Renewable Vitality Sector Improvement Venture (RESDP) awarded scholarships to seven females to pursue programmes of examine at Sir Arthur Lewis Group Faculty.
The Renewable Vitality Sector Improvement Venture (RESDP) is geared toward lowering St. Lucia’s dependence on fossil fuels by conducting geothermal exploration drilling to find out if there’s a viable geothermal useful resource of appropriate high quality to pursue the institution of a geothermal energy plant.
In complete, 32 scholarships are being awarded, financed by the Canada Clear Vitality and Forests Local weather Facility. The scholarships goal females and is geared in direction of lowering the gender hole in technical schooling and jobs inside the vitality sector which existed through the mission appraisal stage in 2021. Accessible knowledge on the time, revealed a major gender hole in STEM schooling and inside the workforce.
Talking on the Awards ceremony held on the SALCC, the Human Useful resource Officer of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports and Transport, Grace Lyn Louis Victorin, applauded the ten scholarship awardees from 2022 and the seven new awardees for this yr encouraging them to place within the required efforts to efficiently full this system and never be deterred by the educational, social and cultural challenges which they may face. She expressed the hope that the scholars’ research within the technical subject be their pathway to lifelong success.
Curt Harris, Dean of Educational Partnerships and Internationalization of the Sir Arthur Lewis Group Faculty, recognised the worth of this initiative indicating how comfortable the establishment is to be a companion and lauding the affect it has had on feminine college students. He counseled the RESDP mission, acknowledging the variety of alternatives that can be opening up in Saint Lucia’s vitality sector
The scholarships present every awardee with tuition for the 2 years of examine, a uniform allowance, a laptop computer, transportation allowance, a college provides allowance and a instrument package. It additionally supplies the chance for college kids to have prolonged paid internships inside the vitality sector.
There are 15 scholarships nonetheless obtainable and scholarship recipient Shurpal Dorville is looking on all college students to make the most of this chance, as college students want solely to focus solely on their research since every part else is offered for and that the scholarships additionally opens doorways to careers within the vitality sector.
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