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Who Deserves to be Funded?

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  Let’s kick off with a generalist view and say that all students deserves to be funded. All students ; yes regardless of sex, religion, political affiliations, and perceived potentials. This is the utopian dream; everyone deserves an economic chest to fund their academic aspirations. Robbin’s in his classical definition of economics exposed the rather complex relationships between ends and scarce means. Our ends; the desire to see every student dream funded does not in any way match our means. So the conclusion came in very early; everyone who deserve it cannot be funded. In transitioning from a utopian to this dystopian world, how do we navigate this complex relationship —- one between our ends and scarce resources? Which of the needy students should receive this scarce resources ? What are the criteria for this capital allocation? Every society and institution has responded differently based on their peculiarity, available means, priority and vision. The funding...

Let us be that Bridge!

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Are you a private individual or a group or a company, an association or body and want to extend scholarships to university students... Elechi Scholarships is there for you! We have positioned ourselves as the bridge between funders and the students. Reach out to us today via Email:  elechischolarships@gmail.com  or Mobile: +2349160253290 The future belongs to those who takes that step. 

Undergraduate Scholarships: The information Bottleneck is Real

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  Early results from our last webinar have started coming in. The data does not lie! The Greatest impediment to access to scholarships is unfamiliarity or lack of knowledge about the availability of these scholarships. Many undergraduate students do not know about the existence of myriads of opportunities to access funding to support their studies. This knowledge however, is not self-inflicted; it is a product of deficiency of resource persons/structured platforms to guide them. When you correlate their familiarity with their source of information; the pattern stands out. A very unstructured way of getting information relying heavily on WhatsApp and friends. The university contributes to less than 15%. Therefore, young students lack who to run to, lean on or guide them over scholarship applications. This is an area that Elechi Scholarships strives to fill in the gap. Students deserves to be fully informed about the possible Scholarships available to them as early as poss...