{"id":20288,"date":"2019-08-26T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:04:16","slug":"isma-awards-scholarships-to-50-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/isma-awards-scholarships-to-50-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ISMA awards scholarships to 50 students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian School Muscat\u2019s Alumni (ISMA),\u00a0raised Omani Rial seven thousand<\/a> (OMR 7,000 or roughly USD18,250) sufficient enough to sponsor fifty (50) students in scholarships, more than three times the total number of scholarships given last year.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe school alumni made their debut kindle program last year, issuing out a total of sixteen (16) scholarships to Muscat\u2019s students who require financial assistance.
\nThe president of ISMA reminded the students who received the scholarship to make good use of the kind gesture and for higher educational achievements. The president advised the students to replicate the tradition the alumni have initiated when they are in a position to do so.
\nIn the ISMA President’s words;<\/p>\n

As alumni of ISM, we all have the responsibility in preserving value and inspiring excellence with the school we all cherish. We want to ensure that children continue to receive a quality education in ISM, irrespective of their economic stature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

State scholarships have decreased substantially<\/h2>\n

Students who benefited from the scholarship were chosen based on two essential criteria; their financial capability and academic performance.<\/strong> Beneficiaries must have good academic records with the school and a proven financial inability.
\nDuring the ceremony where the cheque was issued to the student council members, ISMA committee members called on the other old students of the school to buy-in into the kindle initiative as a means of payback to the school.<\/strong>
\nOne of the executive team members, Chethan Mallya, remarked that sponsorship of the deserving students inspires all the alumni to pitch in and help out in every way possible. The alumni expressed gratitude to all who made the scholarship a reality for the students.
\nPreviously, ISMA also raised more than Omani Rial five thousand (OMR5000)<\/a> through a charity cricket match for the same purpose.
\nIn other countries, there have been cuts in scholarships and private personalities<\/a> had to pitch in to support students in the pursuit of courses in universities. In Alaska alone, two thousand five hundred scholarships<\/a> were discontinued.
\nThe more prestigious the school, the\u00a0harder\u00a0it is to\u00a0get\u00a0a merit\u00a0scholarship\u00a0because they have lower acceptance rates, higher yields, and more top students. Lower ranked schools tend to give more merit\u00a0scholarships because they want to attract more top students. Thus, the alumni of schools could do well to sponsor students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indian School Muscat\u2019s Alumni (ISMA),\u00a0raised Omani Rial seven thousand (OMR 7,000 or roughly USD18,250) sufficient enough to sponsor fifty (50) students in scholarships, more than three times the total number of scholarships given last year.\u00a0 The school alumni made their debut kindle program last year, issuing out a total of sixteen (16) scholarships to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[783,875,1207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}