Dagupan enrolls 500 college scholars this year

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=772087
• Saturday, June 13, 2015

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DAGUPAN CITY, June13 (PNA)--The city government has enrolled to different colleges and universities here at least 500 students from the ranks of indigent families in Dagupan City as its scholars starting the first semester of the scholastic year 2015 to 2016.

The Mayor Belen T. Fernandez Scholarship Program has initially benefited some 500 deserving students of poor families who have no chance to continue their education as their respective families are too poor to send them to school and finish a course.

"We opened the window of opportunities this year to deserving sons and daughters of poor families who have no chance to further their study after high school. With this scholarship program, they can finish their course in four years provided they maintain a grade of 80 per semester and have not failed any subject, " said Fernandez.

The city government allotted Php10,000 per student per semester till they graduate, saying the amount will go directly to the colleges and universities where they were enrolled, Fernandez said.

The mayor signed a memorandum of agreement with the owners of Lyceum Northwestern University, University of Luzon, University of Pangasinan Phinma, Colegio de Dagupan and the Pangasinan Maritime Academy (PAMA) where the students were enrolled.

The scholars were given two options to take--either a collegiate course or vocational and technical education, the mayor said.

"We hope that after graduation and after landing a job, the scholars will help their parents and their siblings," Fernandez said. Most scholars grabbed the chance to earn college degrees.

This is the first time that the city is bankrolling scholarship grants to children of poor families in Dagupan.