KOCHI: The British Council has selected eight students from India, including one from Kochi, Deepak Nagappan Anitha, for the British Council IELTS Scholarship Award.
Each will receive an award of `3,00,000 towards the cost of tuition fees. The award winners will begin a fulltime postgraduate programme at any overseas university that uses IELTS as a part of its admission requirements and as a reliable measure of English language proficiency.
Deepak Nagappan Anitha completed his BTech in Computer Science and is working as a software engineer.
Deepak will be joining the University of Manchester.
Mike Nithavrianakis, British Deputy High Commissioner, Chennai, and Paul Sellers, director of South India at the British Council, presented the awards at the British Council, Chennai.
The British Council IELTS Scholarship Award was launched with the objective of assisting Indian students intending to study in universities abroad.
In keeping with its mission to promote global sharing of knowledge and ideas, IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is the world's leading English language test designed to evaluate ability to communicate in English for education, immigration and professional accreditation worldwide.
The British Council IELTS is immensely popular with Indian students. The IELTS is recognised by over 6,000 institutions in 125 countries worldwide. The choice of universities is wide for Indian students, with over 2,500 institutions and programmes in the US alone accepting the IELTS.
The scholarship programme directly benefits both individuals and the countries from which they come, while at the same time promoting higher education links between India and other countries.