Late Professor Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation post graduate scholarships

Late Professor Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation post graduate scholarships
The Foundation was set up in the year 1995 in honour of the Late Professor Stephen Oluwole Awokoya.Professor Awokoya was the first (1946) Nigerian graduate in Chemistry. He was the first (1952) Minister of Education in Western Nigeria, and he later became the Federal Permanent Secretary and Chief Federal Adviser on Education. He was also a Director at the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris for many years.The Foundation has been awarding post graduate scholarships in science related disciplines to qualified candidates since 1996.The process for the award of the scholarship starts with the application by the candidates. Each application has to be supported or nominated by a dean of one of the various faculties or a head of department, related to Science or Science Education at a tertiary institution in Nigeria. The scholarship awardees are chosen based on excellence in educational performance and stated long-term objectives.A total of Seventeen (17) students have benefited from this scholarship program as of the year 2002.The postgraduate scholarship award covers tuition and board, and it was formerly of the order of Fifty Thousand Naira (=N=50,000) per student per annum, and was increased to One Hundred Thousand Naira (=N=100,000) per student per annum in the year 2002. It is renewable each year, for a maximum of three years for a PhD programme and two years for a Masters level programme, provided the awardee maintains a good record of academic performance as attested to by the authorities of the University he or she attendsContact:Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation for Science Education101A, Adeniyi Jones Avenue,Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.Tel: 234-1-4809294Fax: 234-1-4922651E-Mail: contact@soawokoyafo undation. orgWebsite:http://www.soawokoy afoundation. org