Islamabad:  International Baccalaureate Organisation (IB) announced next application cycle for tuition-free scholarships in partnership with University of People for Educators to complete an online Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree.

With launch of fully-funded scholarships, IB aims to eliminate accessibility barriers to quality education and fill global need of more than 69 million teaching positions by 2030 as estimated by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) to meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). 

Applications for IB’s University of People scholarship reopened from now onwards and will close on March 17, 2023.

Tuition-free, non-profit and entirely online, UoPeople is an American University that offers students in 194 nations access to approved undergraduate and graduate degree programmes.

So far, eight scholarships are awarded to educators in Pakistan which signify concerted effort and dedication to address global lack of quality educators, it guarantees that more students have access to top-notch education in turn.

A recipient of scholarship Principal Ilmesters Neesha Feroz said: “Education has given me tools I need to implement to improve teaching strategy used by my team.”

Moreover, scholarship recipients will receive funding to cover application fee required by UoPeople and also assessment fee of all 13 courses to complete M.Ed. degree.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 19 2023

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