KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) has awarded 15 best performing students from the company’s Trust Schools in Chingola and Chililabombwe with international scholarships.
The 15 beneficiaries obtained six-10 points each in the grade 12 examinations in 2010 and were then sponsored by KCM to study ‘A’ Levels in various disciplines that includes Information Communication and Technology (ICT), Biology, Chemistry and Physics at Simba International School in Ndola.
The students have successfully completed the ‘A’ Levels programme to earn themselves the international scholarship.
KCM acting Chief Executive Officer, David Ng’andu said during the award of the scholarships to the students in Chingola on Tuesday that the company was proud to continue the tradition of sponsoring high-achieving students, its employees and their dependents at local and foreign universities since 2007.
“This is a part of the company’s programme announced in 2011 of sponsoring top students from its Trust Schools for degree study abroad,” he said.
Mr Ng’andu said the sponsored student would enroll for four-year degree programmes in various fields including Electronics and Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Metallurgy at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), a leading university in India.
He said a total of 17 students have been sponsored previously by KCM under this programme and were studying for degrees in various fields including medicine in both, India and Namibia.
Mr Ng’andu also announced that KCM had awarded separate scholarships to 42 high school students in grades 8 and 10 after they achieved exceptional grades in the 2013 grade 7 and 9 exams.
“The students, who are in government-run schools, are being provided with full-sponsorship until they sit for their next national examinations,” Mr Ng’andu said.
He said the scholarships, apart from being a reward for hard work and excellence, were also intended to enhance the skill base in the country.
Mr Ng’andu said KCM would continue to contribute significantly to the development of education and economic growth of the country.
“These programs of sponsoring students from the KCM Trust Schools for degrees abroad and at Government Schools for national examinations are examples of several initiatives undertaken by the company to develop skills for the country.
“KCM has awarded 302 people with scholarships to study in universities and tertiary schools in various fields such as hydro-geology in the UK, rock mechanics in Australia, medicine and other specialized nursing courses like in intensive care, pediatrics and radiography in Kenya and Zambia since 2007,” he said.
Unless they are coming to the UK, those scholarships are tainted
Here is where the best education runs supreme so I wouldnt not commend them at all I am afraid. We need to know where , might be USA or china which are clearly inferior.
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what are you saying?
Mushota: I think you don’t understand the world today. The British are busy sending their children abroad for school and you don’t know this? India has some of the best universities as evidenced by great scientists, doctors, physics, biology and mathematics teachers it has produced, including engineers. If you have lived in Zambia you will agree, otherwise your thinking may be warped and biased
I agree with mushota UK universities are the best in the world i can attest to that, all the chinese and Japanese are there. India , Russia, Malaysia, China , waste of time and resources.Better stay at UNZA guys.
Imwe, it is clear that up to today the best universities are still in America, where business, economics and science have been developed from their lower forms in Europe. It is no wonder that the best books in economics and business come from America. Science look at Apple computers, iPhone, etc. Probably the top 20 universities are all from the US.
Mushota got some inferior complex. That’s why she exhorts the UK in her postings. I have a prevelege in studying and living in United States and and the UK and what I have found is that the Americans are far ahead by over 50 years. Americans are more open minded. That’s why they are leading in most of the things. That’s why they command so much influence in the world.
Just follow this link compiled by the British and it will educate us abt best educational institutions in the world of which the UK got only 3 in top 10.
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india produces more scientists per year than the whole europe added. this is a fact
Reputation damage control; nice try!
THERE, THERE ZAMBIANS
EAT YOUR HARSH WORDS ABOUT KCM
THEY HAVE PROVEN THAT WE INDIANS ARE A FORGIVING RACE OF PEOPLE
DESPITE THE INSULTS, WE PERSEVERED AND ARE EDUCATING FUTURE LEADERS OF YOUR COUNTRY…WITH OUR MONEY
I REST MY CASE
Mr. Patel, public relations exercise cannot hide the facts that KCM employs more expatriates in senior positions than Zambians, it deals with foreign banks and suppliers than indigenous.
Please give me a break! what is 15 students sponsorship compared to the money these guys steal from Zambia in form of Tax Avoidance? Think guys THINK!!
He who has not travelled…praises his mother’s cooking.
Reminds me of ZCCM’s Medical and Education Trust (MET) it sure sent em students all over the world…though a sizable lot never came back.
I agree with mike,i don’t see any difference between the 15 and those at unza.The scholarship obtained does not mean our University offers less..