Elechi_Scholars

 The University is centered around the three pillars of:     Teaching    Research    Community or Social development At the foundation of these is teaching. As custodians of knowledge, they represent the highest level of arbitration on science, arts, skills, values and culture. They pass this down to students, through structured curricula and teaching modules.  Closely tied to, and also the foundation of all teaching is research. Universities and research institutions are the incubators of knowledge and ideas that advance societal growth and civilization. Every societal problem should be studied, theorized, investigated, documented and piped back for testing and validation in the real-world--- this is what research entails Community or social development are not separate responsibilities per se. Rather, they represent the various channels through which the university interact with and give back to the society where they are found. It is the respo...

  Dear Student, I know you are excited about this scholarship , just as I am Before we hop right in, let me tell you a bit more about Elechi Scholarships and what we intend to achieve. Scholarships for education in Nigeria are marked by the following:   Very limited scholarship opportunities   Unsustainable one-time disbursement of funds to students per annum    Limited of total lack of follow-up on the use of the funding for educational purposes   Very limited funding for research purposes in the core sciences and arts to advance knowledge Now, you have heard about all the problems, right?  How does  Elechi Scholarships try to solve these problems? First, we try to test and validate a funding model that is not very popular but works in many other places:   Introduce a periodic, sustainable and dependable scholarship scheme for students   Refrain from bulk payments of Scholarship awards to students   Deduct tuition fees and ...