KAMPALA- The Higher Education Student’s Financing Board has today released the list of the eleventh cohort of the approved student loan beneficiaries of academic year 2024/25 showing 43% of the loan beneficiaries are female.
These make 790 students out of the 1838 students who were successful.
This is the highest percentage of the successful female candidates since the inception of the scheme.
The board also awarded 29 persons with disabilities to do various course in sciences and humanity programmes.
While releasing this cohort at media centre today, minister of state for higher education John Chrysostom Muyingo said 25.4% of the awardees are undertaking diploma programmes across different disciplines.
Muyingo added that government is now putting emphasis on vocational studies because they play a vital role in preparing students for successful careers, thus encouraged learners to take up these diploma programmes.
MUYINGO ADDS:
It is also important to note that 43% of the successful applicants are female, 790 female out of 1,838.This is the highest percentage of successful female candidates since the inception of the scheme.
I am happy to note that, the Board has this time exceeded the 30% affirmative action towards the female students since inception. I would like therefore, to encourage the girl child to study sciences and tap into the opportunities offered by government to study on government loans.
I am happy to report to all Ugandans and more so my Honorable Colleagues, the Members of Parliament, that the Board has already taken the strides in ensuring that the Loan Beneficiaries have been largely selected on District Quota system. 60% of the offers have been equitably distributed among the 137 Districts of the Country.
This is a commendable effort in the right direction towards ensuring regional balance in the offering of education according Minister of state for Higher Education JC Muyingo.
