Engineers Fiji will advice TSLS on an yearly basis on the types of engineering programmes required and number of awards to be allocated by the Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the two organisations.
TSLS says the collaboration aims to foster a partnership that benefits aspiring engineers and the engineering industry.
They say the MoU will allow constructive information and data sharing that will allow quality of scholarship intakes and allocation of awards for the engineering programmes.
TSLS says Engineers Fiji will provide essential input by providing industry mentoring to the TSLS sponsored students in engineering prgorammes and allow students membership to Engineers Fiji.
Engineers Fiji Vice-President Terence Erasito says the engineering industry needs more diploma and post–degree students to fulfil the industry needs.
He says as Fiji is a developing country, a major influence on the growth of the economy is the quality of education and the ease with which secondary school graduates have access to tertiary level programs.
Erasito says fulfilling the needs of Fiji’s workforce will inevitably assist with Fiji’s growth.
TSLS CEO Hasmukh Lal says Engineers Fiji is the industry peak association of the engineering profession in Fiji.
He says TSLS has started to partner with industry peak associations so that they can become the advisor in terms of the needs existing in the profession, for instance the number of civil or mechanical engineers the industry needs and so forth and these types of data will assist TSLS on yearly basis in terms of allocating scholarships both at TVET and degree level locally and internationally.
TSLS has awarded 5,001 scholarships to engineering students from 2014 to date.
There are 505 scholarships awards available in the 2024 academic year for the engineering services priority area.
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