SOME BARBADIAN STUDENTS at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies are getting uneasy about what they say is the Government’s failure to pay their bursaries.
More than 20 students have not received the $1 800 bursary since academic year 2014/2015 when it was supposed to be disbursed, according to reports from Jamaica, and with a new academic year on stream, they want to know how soon the money will be paid.
Student representative Saashen Sealy, speaking to the SUNDAY SUN from the campus, said he had a meeting with Minister of Education Ronald Jones last month to discuss the problem.
“I spoke to the minister personally in January and he told me they were working to have the matter resolved,” Sealy said. “He told me approximately 20 students were still to get bursaries but up to this point we have not received them.”
The bursaries are awarded to Barbadian students at the three campuses to assist in paying tuition fees that the Government stopped paying in full in 2014. (MB)
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