Twenty six Belizeans have been given the opportunity to travel to the Republic of China (Taiwan) on full scholarships to study in three major areas. The Belize Taiwan International Collaboration Development Fund Alumni Society Scholarships orientation luncheon was held on Saturday and Love News was there and here is that report.
HIPOLITO NOVELO
“Twenty six Belizeans who are recent recipients of a full scholarship from the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan gathered at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel with past recipients. According to the Ambassador of Taiwan to Belize David Wu, this year’s scholarship grant is the maximum handed out to Belizeans.”
AMBASSADOR DAVID WU
“It is the highest number of scholarships awarded to the Belizean students over the past few years. Belizeans students have the highest number to be awarded of the scholarship because we are very close diplomatic allies but also the students from Belize have done very well in Taiwan in the past 7 – 8 years.”
HIPOLITO NOVELO
“From the twenty six recipients, 15 will be pursuing their Bachelor’s degree while the other will keep their heads in the book if they want to obtain their Master’s and one individual will be pursuing a Doctorate degree.”
“In the three major categories, one is agriculture; I think that it will be very useful for them when they come back to Belize to develop the agriculture of this country and management and also high tech because the high tech now in Taiwan is very advanced so, I think they started in three major categories. We have two types of scholarship one is ICDF – international collaboration development fund and this ICDF program will be taught in English, Taiwan scholarship is another type of scholarship it is taught in Mandarin because Mandarin now Is a very popular language; so, they will spend one extra year to learn this language first in Taiwan and then the program now will be taught in Mandarin.”
HIPOLITO NOVELO
“The scholarships include full tuition, accommodations and allowance.”
AMBASSADOR DAVID WU
“We hope now after they started, they can come back to contribute their learning to their home country but we also have, since last year, I think two of them have already gotten a job in Taiwan; they are now the teacher, they are now teaching English in Taiwan.”
According to Ambassador Wu, over two hundred and thirty scholarships have been granted over the past years.
