British Council grants scholarships to five excellent students

Alison Ball (L), director and country exams manager of the British Council in HCMC and Le Anh Tho (R), BC assistant director in HCMC pose with some of the scholarship winners - Photo: Tuong Vi

The British Council has granted IELTS scholarships to five excellent students who obtained1 6.5 and above in their IELTS (International English Language Testing System) tests. At the ceremony at British Council’s headquarters in HCMC each recipient was awarded VND60 million (equal to 2,000 UK pounds) in cash and a certificate to them who are about to start their courses at universities in the U.S., UK, and Australia.

The five high school students will study in the U.S., U.K. and Australia - two will study bachelor degrees, one will do a foundation pre-university course and two will do A-Level high school programs. They performed well in written applications, English essays, presentations and interviews.

In 2010, British Council launched the British Council IELTS program for people in Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, Myanmar, and India with a total investment of 80,000 pounds. Since March, 1,600 applications have been submitted for the scholarships.

IELTS has been available for over twenty years and is now one of the leading international English testing systems with over 1.5 million candidates in the past 12 months in over 125 countries and more than 6,000 organizations worldwide. Over 3,000 higher education institutions recognize IELTS, and all Canada, Australia and the UK-based universities accept IELTS.

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