30,000 scholarships for students of scientific and technical careers

Registration for the Bicentennial Scholarships ending March 15, 2009. The award will be held on May 5, 2009. Those wishing more information can access www.becasbicentenario.gov.ar where you will find information on the application requirements and actions to the Programme.

During the presentation of the plan, the education portfolio holder, said: "In the past 15 years the sector has grown from fewer college tuition is now trying to encourage through this scheme. This initiative responds to a strategy to encourage young people to choose careers related to the scientific-technical. "

In addition, Tedesco said: "This bursary scheme has a historically unprecedented magnitude in Argentina, our country never had a program of this scope for scientific and technical careers, leaving the deficit to careers in science and in a linked approach to development productive and social equity. "

He added: "With this scholarship policy will in the next five years around 150 000 students with scholarships in these races, which means an investment of 1.5 billion pesos. Thus we show that the priority of education ceased to be rhetoric and became a reality "

Finally, the Minister said "These grants are part of the actions we have been carrying out with the aim of improving higher education, and improvement plans of racing, the budget increase for infrastructure and salaries and on the other hand, the improving the teaching of science and mathematics in primary and secondary schools "

Meanwhile, Abal Medina, said: "The importance of following betting on state policies that carry out a production model of development of the country, in times of turbulence for the global economy."

The program is for students who come from low-income households and would-be university or scientific-technical technical programs in the branches of Natural Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Applied Sciences and Exact Sciences, and Engineering.

As part of the process of economic growth and re-industrialization of the country, the initiative of the National Ministry of Education to increase the number of young people in careers considered strategic for the development of production and aims to ensure the permanence of students in the university system.

The Bicentennial National Scholarship Program, which will benefit 30,000-student has an annual budget of 145 million pesos for 2009. Students will receive a financial subsidy benefit to be paid annually in 10 monthly installments of 500 pesos for the case of undergraduate courses and 350 pesos for technical programs.

Registration for the Bicentennial Fellowship begins October 15, 2008 and ends on March 15, 2009. The award will be held on May 5, 2009. Those wishing more information can access www.becasbicentenario.gov.ar where you will find information on the application requirements and actions to the Programme.