Sweden offers hundreds of postgraduate scholarships to UgandansPublish
Date: Oct 31, 2013
One of the Swedish Universitynewvision
By Innocent Anguyo
The Swedish government is offering hundreds of scholarships to
Ugandans to pursue courses at masters and post-doctorate level.
The full scholarships cater for tuition fees, travel grant and living
allowance. The scholarships will be pursued in Swedish institutions of
higher learning. At least 300 courses are up for grabs.
According to Niklas Dahlberg, of the Swedish Institute, applications
for the scholarships ( for the next academic year) will be online
effective December 02 of this year. To get further details on how to
access the applications, visit, www.studyinsweden.se.
Asked to reveal the number of scholarships accessible to Ugandans,
Dahlberg said he did not know the exact numbers but was quick to add
that the scholarships would come in hundreds.
However, to be eligible for the scholarship, a student has to apply to
Swedish institutions of higher learning that have the sole privilege
of admitting students before they can access the scholarships. To get
information on admissions, visit www.universityadmissions.se.
Also, mandatory is an application fee of approximately sh350, 000
payable before submission of the application form. All applications
are done electronically and so is payment of the application fees.
The scholarships were announced by the officials of the Swedish
Institute, which is in charge of Swedish scholarships. The
pronouncement came during the Swedish Day celebrations which were held
at Makerere.
Other activities of the Day included presentations by the Swedish
Institute on why Sweden remains a top destination for quality higher
education; quiz on Sweden; photo exhibitions; presentation by Ugandan
scholars in Sweden and screening of a Swedish movie.
Swedish Ambassador Urban Andersson, flanked by the Director General of
the Swedish Institute Annika Rembe, encouraged Ugandans to apply for
the scholarships saying Sweden was a hospitable country devoid of
racism.
Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof John Ddumba Ssentamu
commended the government of Sweden for the generous support to the
University saying a great proportion of research funding for Makerere
came from the Swedish International Development Coperation Agency
(Sida).
“Many Makerere staff have received funding from Sida to undertake
graduate education. Since 2000, over 120 people have completed PHDs
and over 30 have completed masters degrees,” said Prof Ddumba.
“Sida funding has enabled us to acquire modern laboratory equipment
and upgrade our internet bandwidth which has seen us improve our
online library resources with a system of more than 20,000 e-journals
accessible all over the country,” added Ddumba.
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