Scholarship fair shows ethnic-minority students where to get help, keep degree dream alive
- Zubin Foundation holds event to keep minority students on track to university
- Scholarship recipients raise awareness of where the help is, and how to get it
Many ethnic-minority students do not go to university because they cannot afford the fees and are unaware that help is available.
To change that, the Zubin Foundation, a non-profit think tank on social policy, organised a scholarship fair on November 9 at law firm Linklaters’ office in Central, to encourage them to hold on to the dream of getting a degree.
Nearly 100 ethnic-minority students and parents attended the event, where 13 tertiary institutions and non-profit organisations set up booths to explain university application procedures and the financial assistance available.
Shalini Mahtani, the think tank’s founder and chief executive, said education offers the hope of upward social mobility and scholarships can make a difference to people from ethnic minorities.
“Many ethnic-minority youths would love to study beyond the HKDSE but simply cannot do so because of poverty,” she said, referring to the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education, the main public exam for entrance to university.