FOUR Hong Kong students and one from Malaysia have been awarded scholarships by the Jardine Foundation for degree courses at Oxford and Cambridge universities, in the UK, beginning this October.
In addition, a Japanese student has been given an award for post-graduate studies at Oxford.
These bring to 44 the number of students who have received the awards since the programme was inaugurated in 1982 to mark Jardine Matheson's 150th anniversary. Thirty-one of the students are from Hong Kong.
The scholarship provides students' fees, accommodation and board, and transportation for a period up to three years. The average value per student is now around approximately HK$600,000.
This year's successful candidates are: Nicholas Campsie, 18, of Island School, Hong Kong, will be reading Philosophy, Politics and economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
Alan Lau, 18, of St Joseph's College, Hong Kong, will be reading Engineering and Computer at Exeter College, Oxford.
Kelvin Lau, 18, who finished his Form 1 to 3 education at Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong, and completed Forms 4 and 5 at Repton School, Derby, UK, will be reading Medicine at Oriel College, Oxford, one of only three overseas students who will be reading Medicine at Oxford.
