| Izah Azahari |
THE Scholarship Section of the Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday held its ‘Jatidiri Berkat’ programme for Brunei government scholarship students of the 2018/2019 academic year, at the Civil Service Institute (IPA).
The programme is a pre-university departure session for students awarded with government scholarships in the country to prepare them for studying abroad.
Scholarship Section Head Julaihi bin Mohamat briefed the attendees on matters including overseas government scholarship rules and regulations as well as overseas scholarship allowances and facilities.
Julaihi noted that the scholarships received “should not be seen as a right, but considered as a national privilege for them”, because one day “the students will return to the country to dedicate their service.”
A number of agencies were invited by the Scholarship Section to deliver talks. These included the Ministry of Health, whose representatives delivered a talk on how to handle stress; the Ministry of Religious Affairs; and the Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIB) Supreme Council, which delivered a briefing on the appreciation of the MIB concept and the nation’s aspirations for the students to be “assets of the country”.
