The Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, has urged selected scholars for the 2017/ 2018 overseas MSC programmes to ensure discipline in the various universities of their studies.
The Executive Secretary, Dr Bello Gusua, gave the advise at the 2017/ 2018 PTDF Oversea scholarship induction programme for MSC scholars yesterday in Abuja.
He said that 195 scholars were selected for the overseas Master’s programme while 184 for PhD out of the 4,949 candidates that were shortlisted for the aptitude test.
According to him, the scholars are going to study in various universities in the world and are expected to be of high moral standing. He said the past beneficiaries of the fund had done tremendously well and had gotten commendation from the universities they studied.
Commenting on the process of selection, he said that apart from oil producing communities, five best candidates were selected for the programme from each state.
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