GOVERNMENT IS LIMITING its scholarships, grants and other assistance for education to Barbadian nationals.
The change is being facilitated through an amendment to the Education Act approved by the House of Assembly on Tuesday night.
The amendment limits the categories of people who will be eligible for bursaries, grants, awards, scholarships and exhibitions handed out under the act to citizens of Barbados.
Minister of Education Ronald Jones, who piloted the amendment through the Lower Chamber, said originally under the act citizens of Barbados, children of citizens and “children of a person who is ordinarily resident in Barbados and has been so resident for a period of seven years” qualified for the offerings, which included an ease on fees in secondary schools. (TY)
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