The British High Com­mis­sion and the Pro­man Foun­da­tion have signed of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) to in­crease the num­ber of Chevening Schol­ar­ship awards of­fered to Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als.

It specif­i­cal­ly tar­gets stu­dents in­tend­ing to study at ac­cred­it­ed uni­ver­si­ties in the Unit­ed King­dom in process en­gi­neer­ing, chem­i­cal en­gi­neer­ing, en­er­gy, and sus­tain­abil­i­ty dis­ci­plines.

Chevening is a UK gov­ern­ment in­ter­na­tion­al awards pro­gramme that has been aimed at de­vel­op­ing glob­al lead­ers since 1983.

One ad­di­tion­al Chevening Schol­ar­ship will be of­fered each year for the next two years while the schol­ar­ship will be avail­able to stu­dents pur­su­ing post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in process en­gi­neer­ing, chem­i­cal en­gi­neer­ing, en­er­gy, or sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

British High Com­mis­sion­er to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Jon Dean, ex­pressed en­thu­si­asm about the part­ner­ship, say­ing, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Pro­man Foun­da­tion will pro­vide tal­ent­ed stu­dents from di­verse back­grounds to pur­sue a mas­ter’s de­gree in the UK. The ad­di­tion­al schol­ar­ship will not on­ly con­tribute to the growth of ex­per­tise in crit­i­cal sec­tors such as en­er­gy and sus­tain­abil­i­ty but al­so un­der­scores the con­tin­ued strong ties be­tween the UK and Trinidad and To­ba­go.”