{"id":150506,"date":"2025-07-02T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150506"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:02:28","slug":"top-a-l-achievers-to-get-foreign-university-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/02\/top-a-l-achievers-to-get-foreign-university-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Top A\/L achievers to get foreign university scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, July 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Cabinet approved a new scholarship programme aimed at providing opportunities for Sri Lanka\u2019s highest-performing students at the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A\/L) examinations, to pursue their first degree at internationally ranked foreign universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with the government\u2019s policy objective of building a \u2018civilized citizen and advanced human resources\u2019, Rs. 200 million was allocated in the 2025 budget proposal to fund this initiative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the programme, scholarships will be awarded to students to complete degree programmes &#8211; up to a maximum of four years &#8211; at universities ranked within the world\u2019s top 500 and offering instructions in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 200 scholarships are planned to be awarded under this programme, with 20 to 50 students to be selected in 2025, for the first phase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligibility is open to students who have achieved the highest Z-scores in the main subject streams of the G.C.E. (A\/L) examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants will be selected through a formal interview process conducted by an expert panel comprising professors and doctors from local universities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal was presented by the Prime Minister in her capacity as the Minister of Education, Higher Education and Professional Education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, July 2 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Cabinet approved a new scholarship programme aimed at providing opportunities for Sri Lanka\u2019s highest-performing students at the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A\/L) examinations, to pursue their first degree at internationally ranked foreign universities. In line with the government\u2019s policy objective of building a \u2018civilized citizen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}