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The University of Cebu Lapu-lapu Mandaue (UCLM) campus is going to give scholarship grants to 300 deserving students in maritime, giving opportunities to students all over Visayas and Mindanao to immediately earn dollars after graduation.
UCLM launched this scholarship program on November 22 to promote its search of beneficiaries specifically those from Southern Philippines. The program will start on June 2008.
A veteran in providing world-sought seafarers, UC’s Lapu-lapu and Mandaue Campus will help to fill the manpower requirement of its partner, the Norwegian Shipowners Association (NSA), through providing full scholarship grants to 300 potential students.
Each scholar will be given full educational expenses, such as board and lodging privileges, book requirements, on top of the free tuition fees.
Extensive academic support will also be put in place through extending scholars with supplementary lectures and training upgrades, textbooks, hands-on computer-based training, shipboard trips, among others.
This full-blown scholarship program will also allow scholars to avail of the 10 to 12 months shipboard training—aboard international-plying NSA vessels with monthly allowance of at least US0.
“Here in Cebu, UC is the only accredited center where we get cadets for our programs,” said C/M George Frange, NSA assistant project manager.
“It goes back during the time when the project was just starting and the Norwegians personally went around the Philippines and handpicked select schools to source cadets from,” Frange emphasized.
With over four decades of providing world-class education in the Asia Pacific region, UC is one of the few NSA-recognized institutions, accredited by the Norwegian Training Center, and recognized by 40 shipping companies and principals all over the world.
NSA has a total of 1,774 ships, 60 of which are mobile offshore units. Its vessels sail with a mixture of over 60 nationalities. Forty percent or 24,000 of the 60,000 seamen manning the ships and rigs are Filipinos.
The NSA’s venture with UC has been ongoing at the UC Maritime Education and Training Center, where over 13 batches of sponsored cadets have taken to the sea for their apprenticeship.
Starting June next year, the program will be duplicated in the UCLM campus. Eventually, NSA through UC intends to educate and train as much as 1,500 promising young minds, in the coming years.

UCLM offers 300 scholarship grants

The increasing global need for competent seafarers has paved the way for the increase in scholarship grants offered at the University of Cebu. This time, it is UC Lapu-Lapu Mandaue Campus that gets the boost of 300 full scholarships for deserving incoming students of BS Marine Technology and BS Marine Engineering.
This program of UC’s partner Norwegian Shipowners Association (NSA) will start on June 2008 and is open for students from the Visayas and Mindanao. It is hoped to fill the manpower requirement of NSA by providing for the full educational expenses of 300 students, such as board and lodging privileges, book requirements, on top of the free tuition.
Scholars will also get extensive academic support through extending scholars with supplementary lectures and training upgrades, textbooks, hands-on computer-based training, shipboard trip, among others.
UC invested US.5million for the students’ dormitory, mock bridge computer laboratories, machine shops, and other facilities.
For its excellence in the field, UC is one of the few schools in the country accredited by NSA. “Here in Cebu, UC is the only accredited center where we get our cadets for our programs,” said C/M George Frange, NSA assistant project manager.
“It goes back during the time when the project was just starting and the Norwegians personally went around the Philippines and handpicked select schools to source cadets from,” Frange emphasized.
NSA has a total of 1,774 ships, 60 of which are mobile offshore units.
UC Maritime Education and Training Center also offers NSA scholarships. NSA scholars will spend their first two years learning the theories and doing hands-on training at UCLM. On their third year, the scholars will do one year shipboard training ─ aboard international-plying NSA vessels with monthly allowance of at least US0.
When they graduate and join NSA vessels, they’d get around ,500 to ,000 each month.

UC will start screening NSA scholarship applicants this coming January. To get the necessary forms and for more information, call 344-7871 and 345-6666. Or visit UCLM along A.C. Cortes Ave., Mandaue City.