The Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board has awarded student loans at 100 percent to 139 first year students at Mukuba University for the 2020/2021 academic year.
Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board Acting Communications Officer Chiselwa Kawanda said this is from a total of 145 students who applied for the student loans.
Ms Kawanda said all the 145 applications were for science based programmes.
She said the breakdown of the applicants was 101 males and 44 females representing 70 percent and 30 percent, respectively.
Ms Kawanda said 139 applicants were eligible for the award of student loans while 6 were ineligible, representing 96 percent and 4 percent, respectively.
She said only one student living with disability applied for a student loan representing 0.69 percent of all applications received and was awarded the student loan.
Ms Kawanda said a total of 43 applicants were from rural towns while 102 were from urban towns representing 30 percent and 70 percent, respectively.
She explainex that the loans for the first year students will cover Tuition fees, Accommodation fees, and book allowances.
Ms Kawanda said as the nation continues to fight COVID-19, all awarded students are advised not to report to the University until they are advised to do so.
She has since appealed to all students who have not been awarded loans not to report to the University unless they will be able to support themselves on the self-sponsorship mode of study.
On such articles you will not see a single anti Zambia diasporan like tarino spaka and anonymous ***** comment. It is because they are allergic to any positive development in their country of birth. They have been programmed by their new colonial master abroad to perpetuate a hate for their own roots. There is nothing worse than a brainwashed african *****s who doesn’t respect his own. Go figure
KZ is this what u have been reduced to blogging
Is that news? At my university here in Georgia (USA), nearly every freshman from Georgia has a Hope scholarship. This scholarship is not a loan. This is not publicized in newspapers.
Has it ever occurred to you that the whiskey or whatever tipple you enjoy is partly bought by the millions of pounds and dollars remitted by the very diasaporians you disparage?
Have you considered why they left in the first place? Please concentrate on creating jobs. Let us build the country together rather than being petty. We expect better from people holding the position you hold.
This is good.
I would like to know from the medical profession if the wearing of jewelry can contribute to the spread of the corona virus.Peter Carlos Hinds.
I thought that these students would be in their books.Not doing otherwise.Peter Carlos Hinds.
Where’s Mukuba University?
What have they done to deserve the Scholarships? I thought they should first get loans, then upon clearing some courses, then small potions of the loan can then be turned into scholarships. How is this institution working? I can still sense a big strain on government coffers without any tangible returns for future students!!
70 percent males and 30 percent female? This is alarming!
This is not news, HELSB does what its mandated to do and it becomes news. Ok, as a simple employer, I have also remitted NAPSA contributions for my 7 employees, LT make this your breaking news.
What have they done to deserve these Scholarships? I thought they should first get loans, then upon clearing some courses, then small potions of the loan can then be turned into scholarships. How is this institution working? I can still sense a big strain on government coffers without any tangible returns for future students!!
That’s my university… Thanks Professor Tailoka for job well done
Where indeed is Mukuba University? In Kawambwa?