DILG now accepting nominations to One Town One Scholar Program
Posted on | Thursday, 28 April 2011 | No Comments
by Maritess B. Beñas
BANGUED, Abra - Nominations are now open to the One Town One Scholar (OTOS) program.
In an interview with provincial director Cresencio Calina of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the OTOS program is being implemented in partnership with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) but with DILG as the overseer because of the involvement of local government units in the nomination process.
Calina explained the process of the nomination to the OTOS program. Each town is given a slot of one scholar for the school year 2011-2012. The scholar should pass through the screening process to be carried out by a screening committee with the Municipal Local Government Operations officer (MLGOO) as member of the said screening committee.
The scholarship is given to deserving students who are willing to enroll in any four-year course and in any government school.
The screening committee would be following these policies: the nominee should be a graduate of public high school and must belong to the upper 10 percent of the graduating class where the student belongs. In case the municipality where the nominee comes from has no public high school, the nominee may come from a private high school.
The OTOS grantee has to submit his report card, a certification of the high school principal that the student-nominee is deserving to avail of the OTOS program, and a medical certificate from a government doctor that the nominee is physically fit to undergo college education.
The OTOS program is still part of the national government’s commitment in meeting the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). (JDP/MBB -PIA CAR,Abra)
BANGUED, Abra - Nominations are now open to the One Town One Scholar (OTOS) program.
In an interview with provincial director Cresencio Calina of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the OTOS program is being implemented in partnership with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) but with DILG as the overseer because of the involvement of local government units in the nomination process.
Calina explained the process of the nomination to the OTOS program. Each town is given a slot of one scholar for the school year 2011-2012. The scholar should pass through the screening process to be carried out by a screening committee with the Municipal Local Government Operations officer (MLGOO) as member of the said screening committee.
The scholarship is given to deserving students who are willing to enroll in any four-year course and in any government school.
The screening committee would be following these policies: the nominee should be a graduate of public high school and must belong to the upper 10 percent of the graduating class where the student belongs. In case the municipality where the nominee comes from has no public high school, the nominee may come from a private high school.
The OTOS grantee has to submit his report card, a certification of the high school principal that the student-nominee is deserving to avail of the OTOS program, and a medical certificate from a government doctor that the nominee is physically fit to undergo college education.
The OTOS program is still part of the national government’s commitment in meeting the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). (JDP/MBB -PIA CAR,Abra)
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