Thai university to offer scholarships to Myanmar students

The Rangsit University of Thailand will hold a seminar in Yangon along with its university entrance examination to select Myanmar students who deserve scholarships, the local weekly Voice reported Sunday.
The seminar will take place on March 21 at the Park royal Hotel and two scholarships will be awarded each for five majoring subjects -- International Business, Information and Communication Technology, Communication Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Economics and International Hospitality Management.
The Rangsit University is the fifth leading university in Thailand having interchange programs with 50 universities from European, American and Asian countries which the scholarship winning students can select for their further study, the report said.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand government will also provide scholarships to pre-graduate Myanmar university students to help develop the country's human resources, an earlier report said.
The subjects to be studied in New Zealand cover basic education and health, administration, trade and development, and prevention of dispute and peace building.
In recent years, other countries such as Singapore, South Korea and China have also extended different scholarships to Myanmar students for the country's human resources development. These scholarship sponsoring institutions include Singapore's PSB Academy and TMC Education Group, South Korea's Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and National Institute For International Education (NIED) and China's Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).
The study subjects are respectively linked with the fields of journalism, mass communications, public relations, accounting and finance, international business management and marketing, logistics management, e-business and e-commerce, construction management and property, and hospitality and tourism.