Full List of 2,500 Nursing, Midwifery Scholarships For 2021 Academic Year

By | December 31, 2020

The scholarships, new of a kind in Uganda, will be awarded to students who want to pursue certificates in; nursing, midwifery, comprehensive nursing, or psychiatric nursing.List for 2,500 nursing, midwifery scholarships ready

most of the slots will be awarded to comprehensive nursing course. File/photo

EDUCATION 

Government in a couple of weeks plans to release a list of 2,500 Senior four leavers who applied for certificate scholarships, in health related courses.

The scholarships, new of a kind in Uganda, will be awarded to students who want to pursue certificates in; nursing, midwifery, comprehensive nursing, or psychiatric nursing; here is an opportunity for you.

On November 6, 2020 a circular notice signed by the education ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Alex Kakooza, called students for interviews.

The interviews later took on November 23 to 27, this year at Mulago Paramedical School, Lira School of Comprehensive Nursing, Lira School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery, Kabale School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery, Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery and Hoima School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The others interviewing centres were Ntungamo Institute of Health Sciences, Fort-Portal School of Clinical Officers, Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mbale School of Clinical Officers/ College of Health Sciences, Kaabong School of Nursing and Midwifery and Moroto District Offices.

EDUCATION 

Government in a couple of weeks plans to release a list of 2,500 Senior four leavers who applied for certificate scholarships, in health related courses.

The scholarships, new of a kind in Uganda, will be awarded to students who want to pursue certificates in; nursing, midwifery, comprehensive nursing, or psychiatric nursing; here is an opportunity for you.

The other listed courses include environmental health science, environmental health assistant’s course and medical laboratory technique.

On November 6, 2020 a circular notice signed by the education ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Alex Kakooza, called students for interviews.

The interviews later took on November 23 to 27, this year at Mulago Paramedical School, Lira School of Comprehensive Nursing, Lira School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery, Kabale School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery, Arua School of Comprehensive Nursing and Midwifery and Hoima School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The others interviewing centres were Ntungamo Institute of Health Sciences, Fort-Portal School of Clinical Officers, Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mbale School of Clinical Officers/ College of Health Sciences, Kaabong School of Nursing and Midwifery and Moroto District Offices.

More so, Dr Safina Musene the Commissioner for Business, Technical, Vocation Education, and Training (BTVET), on Monday, December 28,2020 told ‘New Vision’ that most of the slots will be awarded to students who want to do comprehensive nursing.

Each of the five institutions offering this course will have 70 students on scholarship.

This will be followed by nursing with 80 slots in each of the five institutions owned by Government.

Dr Musene added, “Midwifery will have 50 slots in five institutions. There will also be 60 slots each of the two available institutes offering this course, 100 slots Psychiatric Nursing in one institution, 60 slots in each of the institutions offering Environmental Health Sciences/ Environmental Health Assistants Course and 100 slots in only one institution offering Medical laboratory techniques.

She has also advised students, “If you don’t get a chance to win a Government scholarship, you will find it easy to be taken up by other private institutions offering the same courses, though on private tuition payment system.”

For students who will win these scholarships, they will be lucky not to pay tuition, which ranges between sh3,500,000 to sh4,000,000 annually; for these two-years certificate courses.

Qualifications

The minimum requirement for these courses is five passes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Language and Mathematics at O’level, for all courses apart from Medical laboratory.

“These passes should have been obtained in one sitting,” Kakooza explains.