Doha, January 30 (QNA) - The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE) announced the updated government scholarship program, its general guidelines, and most important features, for the academic year 2024/2025, in partnership with the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau and the Ministry of Labor.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Higher Education Affairs at the MOEHE Dr. Harib Mohammed Al Jabri reviewed the general objectives of the updated government scholarship plan, including economic growth in terms of investment in human capital and the quality of educational outcomes, noting the role of the private sector in this context.

He noted that one of the goals of the new government scholarship plan, for which registration will be open from June 15 until Aug. 15, is to ensure equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, and talent development, stressing that the government scholarship is an opportunity for all Qatari students to obtain a government scholarship provided that the necessary and required conditions are met.

In a related context, Al Jabri discussed the three main scholarship programs, which are the internal scholarship program for 5 universities inside Qatar within Education City universities, and the external scholarship program for the best 300 universities according to the classification of tracks and specializations, which allows the students to choose the university that suits them according to the specialization they desire, in addition to the Amiri Scholarship Program allocated to the best 24 universities according to the general classification in the world for foreign scholarships, with the conditions required for each of them.

He indicated that government scholarships were previously limited to outstanding students, while now they also include talented people in specializations such as sports, art, and innovation, for example.

Within the context of his presentation, Dr. Harib discussed the various internal and external scholarship tracks, including 8 tracks, as well as their specializations, regulations, privileges, facilitation of procedures, and financial allocations granted to scholarship students, while ensuring that they are distributed in the scholarship countries in a controlled manner, which also gives them other additional cultures, as well as replacement plans and nationalization in the government sector through the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau and the Ministry of Labor, and the percentages required in some internal government scholarship programs, including the "Tomouh" program by 70 percent, the bachelor's study program by 80 percent, and the Academic Bridge Program and the success rate for joining it is 70 percent, indicating the desired increase in the number of scholarship students according to the 2024 budget.

The Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Higher Education Affairs at the MOEHE noted that those who were unable to register for a scholarship during the aforementioned period will have the opportunity to register and enroll for two other periods from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, 2024, to enroll in the spring semester, and from March 15 to April 15, 2025, for summer semester admission.

He said that the government scholarship plan inside and outside Qatar previously included 700 male and female students, but now includes 1,500 male and female students annually.