Deputy Chief Education officer, Joy Adamson served as Chairman of the committees for this year’s National Development/Commonwealth Scholarships.
Choosing the recipients for this year’s National Development and Commonwealth Scholarships, was not an easy task.
This was the admission of the Chairman of the committees for the National Development Scholarships as well as the Commonwealth Scholarships, deputy chief education officer, Joy Adamson.
Her comments came as the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation officially announced the names of the six recipients who were awarded National Development Scholarships for 2017, as well as the lone recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship.
“[We were] charged with a very difficult task. First, selecting the areas [of need] that had been submitted from all across Barbados, both in the public and private sector, then shortlisting the persons for the interviews. We had three days of interviews where we actually had to select the individuals and then there was the hard, hard task of whittling it down, so that we had the priority [areas],” Adamson explained.
“We came up then with six persons for the National Development Scholarship and we made recommendations for the Common Wealth Scholarship. I think we sent forward three names and we had one person being successful, so it is an honourable task, and I feel very proud when I see the recipients at the end,” Adamson said in the presence of the awardees and their relatives as well as Ministry officials, whilst on location at the Ministry this week.
She meanwhile encouraged the scholarship awardees to be ambassadors for Barbados, whilst studying abroad. “Not only by the grades that you get on that transcript that we will be seeing every year, but also how you carry yourself when you are in Canada, the UK and New Zealand, to be that Ambassador for us,” Adamson told the scholarship winners. (RSM)