GSIS calls low income gov’t workers to avail its college scholarship program
By Jennifer C. Tilos
DUMAGUETE CITY, June 17 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has urged employees anew to avail of its College Scholarship Program where 200 slots are available this school year.
Regional Manager Vilma Fuentes of GSIS Bacolod said the deadline for filing of application is on June 30.
The employees with the lowest salary grades would nominate their children to the enhanced scholarship grant.
In a press release, GSIS President and General Manager Robert Vergara said, “As part of celebrating our 75th anniversary this year, the current Board of Trustees revised the scholarship program to ensure that our low-income members will be given the opportunity to send their children to colleges and universities that provide quality education.”
The GSIS will accept scholarship nominees from members with a salary grade of 24 or below, or its equivalent from May 15 to June 30, 2012.
The nominee must be a child of the member and an incoming freshman accepted in the schools identified by the pension fund.
Fuentes said, the scholar will be entitled to the actual cost of tuition and miscellaneous fees not exceeding P20,000 and a monthly stipend of P2,000.
The scholar may also opt to take a four- or five-year course but must meet the scholastic requirements set by the school for student retention under the program.
Aside from the scholarship program, the GSIS is granting its members, a P4,000 educational assistance, which is payable in five years at six percent interest rate, said Fuentes.
Nominees to the program should be freshmen who have been accepted to the following schools: Negros Oriental State University; Silliman University; St. Paul University-Dumaguete; Adamson University; Adventist University of the Philippines; Angeles University Foundation; Assumption College; Ateneo de Davao University; Ateneo de Manila University; Ateneo de Naga University; Ateneo de Zamboanga University; Baliuag University; Bataan Peninsula State University; Batangas State University; Benguet State College; Bicol University; Bukidnon State University; Bulacan State University; Cagayan State University; Camarines Sur State Agricultural College; Capiz State University; Catanduanes State College; Cavite State University;
Cebu Doctors’ University; Cebu Institute of Technology; Cebu Normal University; Cebu State College of Science and Technology; Central Luzon State University; Central Mindanao University; Central Philippines University; Centro Escolar University; Centro Escolar University-Malolos; Colegio de Dagupan; Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology; De La Salle University; De La Salle University-Dasmariñas; Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University; Eastern Samar State University; Eastern Visayas State University; Far Eastern University; Filamer Christian College; Holy Angel University; Holy Name University; Ifugao State College of Agriculture and Forestry; Isabela State University; Jose Rizal University; Kalinga Apayao State College; Leyte Normal University; Leyte State University; Liceo de Cagayan University; Lyceum Northwestern University; Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas; Lyceum of the Philippines University-Manila; Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation; Mapua Institute of Technology; Mariano Marcos State University; Mindanao Polytechnic State College; among other universities and colleges in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao identified by GSIS. (/mbcnJCT/PIA-Negros Oriental)