{"id":153039,"date":"2025-11-15T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153039"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:41:16","slug":"applications-open-for-interest-free-student-loan-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/15\/applications-open-for-interest-free-student-loan-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications open for interest-free student loan scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education has announced the call for applications for the Interest-Free Student Loan Scheme, allowing students to enrol in 131 degree programmes offered by 18 government-recognised degree-awarding institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department, issuing a notice, stated that students who sat for the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A\/L) Examination in the years 2022, 2023, and 2024 are eligible to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for these 131 degree courses offered by the 18 recognised institutions can be obtained by visiting the official website of the Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline for submitting applications is November 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education has announced the call for applications for the Interest-Free Student Loan Scheme, allowing students to enrol in 131 degree programmes offered by 18 government-recognised degree-awarding institutions. The Government Information Department, issuing a notice, stated that students who sat for the G.C.E. Advanced Level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153039","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=153039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153040,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153039\/revisions\/153040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}