Last call for SEARCA scholarship applications

FILIPINOS have until next week to apply for SEARCA’s (Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture) graduate and postgraduate scholarships in agriculture and related sciences in 2014-15.

Applications should be sent to the Commission on Higher Education, which will forward them to SEARCA in Los Baños, Laguna, not later than July 30.

Other Southeast Asian nationals may apply through their respective ministries of education, agriculture, forestry, fisheries or rural development. Applications will also have to be received at SEARCA not later than July 30.

Scholarships are for master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees. They cover tuition and other school fees, books and supplies allowance, thesis/dissertation support, health insurance, round trip fare from home to study post and a monthly stipend of $500.

Grantees may enroll at the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, UP Diliman, UP Visayas, Kasetsart University in Thailand, Universiti Putra Malaysia in Malaysia or Bogor Agricultural University or Gadjah Mada University, both in Indonesia.

Priority study areas are biological and social sciences, economics and statistics, forestry and fisheries and environmental science.

Headed by Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit Jr., SEARCA aims to build the capacities of Southeast Asian institutions working in agriculture and rural development through its core programs of graduate scholarship, research and development and knowledge management.

A total of 417 Filipinos so far have received SEARCA scholarships.