Financial Times - Dialog Telekom awards merit schols to A/L students

Dialog Telekom is once again presenting awards to Sri Lanka’s top scorers at the local Advanced Level examinations with Dialog Merit Scholarships.

The new batch of scholars recently received their awards from Education Minister Susil Premajayanth. Over the past three years, Dialog Telekom Ltd has helped improve education for Sri Lankan youth by way of its scholar initiatives. A substantial amount of focus has been placed on empowering outstanding students from the 25 districts in Sri Lanka to accomplish their future aspirations. Mr Premajayanth thanked Dialog for its contribution and for helping to “improve the standard of education in Sri Lanka to give students the chance to excel”. Echoing these sentiments was Prof. M.T.M. Jiffry, a member of the University Grants Commission, who complimented the company saying, “This is a good example set out by a company to promote human resources in the country. Dialog does a lot of other work in other areas of education too and other companies should take this as an example and have such programmes as technology is the future of our country and the world today.”

Each year Dialog along with the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission identifies the best performing students in the country at the GCE Ordinary and Advanced level examinations. The selection of students is based on the students’ academic performance at the examinations, at district level, in the 25 administrative districts. Scholarships are awarded to the top 30 students who qualify to follow mathematics at secondary level, as well as the top 25 students who qualify to pursue undergraduate university degrees in the field of engineering (electronics, electrical, and computer).