THE privately run Naung Lon Foreign Education Centre (NLFE) will start offering scholarships next year to help underprivileged students study abroad.
“Our program is aimed at helping poor students get an international-level education,” said U Pe Nyunt, the principal of centre headquartered in MGW Tower in Botahtaung township, Yangon.

He said the centre will select 10 students a year based on their background information, including family income, matriculation exam scores and political affiliation.

He said the scholarship program was being conducted with support from an oil company that wished to remain unnamed but that has recently discovered gas in upper Myanmar.

The chosen students will be provided with support to attend a one-year diploma course in Singapore.

To be eligible for the scholarship, students must take one year of English-language training at the centre for a fee of K300,000, including examination fees for Test of English Language as Foreign Language (TOEFL) and International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

Students who take the training but do not receive scholarships will be helped by the centre in their efforts to find other scholarships and suitable programs for overseas study.