United World College National Committee in Sri Lanka offers scholarships to students

The United World College National Committee in Sri Lanka (UWC SL) invites high school students to apply for entry in 2018 to the UWC Scholarship Programme.

The deadline for submitting applications is 23:55, Saturday, 17 February 2018.
Applications can be downloaded at https://uwcsrilanka.wixsite.com/sluwc/apply and then submitted by post or email or be completed online. Interviews will be held in Colombo at the end of February.
 

If you have any difficulty accessing the application or have any questions please
email infosluwc@gmail.com or message SL NC on https://www.facebook.com/ncsrilanka. The facebook page will also be updated from time to time with details on information sessions and advice on the application process, so we suggest checking this regularly.
 
UWC SL will select applicants based on their merits and nominate selected students to UWCs based on their financial needs. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds and students affected by the war are encouraged to apply. This year, there are full and partial scholarship offers from UWCs in Hong Kong, Norway, India, and the Netherlands along with two unfunded positions in the United Kingdom and China.

Requirements
1.       Eligibility: Applicants to this scholarship program must meet the following two conditions:

-          Citizen of Sri Lanka

-          Have completed GCE O’Levels or equivalent prior to September 2018 and not yet entered a bachelors’ degree programme or similar
-           Must be not younger than 16 and under 18 years old on the 1st of September 2018
2.       Requirements: Successful applicants should demonstrate the following qualities:
1.       Intellectual Curiosity and Motivation 
A genuine urge to learn about the world around oneself and the ability to recognize the details and
grasp the breadth of issues (for example global and local concerns) involved in any given topic and to analyze them thoroughly.
2.       Active Commitment
The ability to develop and readiness to reflect, question and confront one’s own values, to measure one’s behavior within family and community against one’s values, and to act on one’s own beliefs accordingly and responsibly.
3.       Social Competence
The ability and readiness to make contact with other people, to interact respectfully with them, to work together with them in a team and to achieve solutions; the ability to express oneself adequately in different situations and to different people.
4.       Resilience, Personal Responsibility, and Integrity
The ability to look after oneself physically and emotionally during the challenging and transforming
experience that a UWC offers; the personal motivation to adhere to UWC’s common moral and ethical principles, a sense of humility and an ability to listen and value another person’s opinion and experience.
5.       Motivation for UWC
Passion, ability, and serious incentive to contribute to and actively promote UWC’s values.
3.       Preference: Other things being equal, preference will be given to a student who would not
otherwise have access to such an experience or who would gain the most from the opportunity.
Therefore, students from rural areas, war-affected areas and students from disadvantaged backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this program.