Amity University Promotes Unique Educational Initiative At Green Middle East - 125 Free Scholarships On Offer For Deserving Talent
One of India’s leading private non-profit education groups, Amity Education Group, is offering talented students with a passion for the environment, the opportunity to take the first step on a career path in the sustainability sector, with 125 annual undergraduate & postgraduate programme scholarships offered through its new Dubai campus.
According to Riaz Bava, Assistant Vice President – Business Development, Amity Middle East, this exciting opportunity is part of Amity’s long-term commitment to developing deserving talent. “Amity’s focus on ground-breaking innovations in science and technology already attracts the young innovators of the future to our growing number of international campuses, and we believe that the nurturing of young talent is extremely important.
“We offer life-changing opportunities not only to those students who have the means to join our family of world-class educational institutions, but to those who need a helping hand.”
With campuses around the world from India and Mauritius to Singapore, the UK and US, as well as Dubai, Amity plans to expand its network to 25 countries in the next few years.
To support Amity’s recruitment drive, the university is exhibiting at the inaugural Green Middle East exhibition and conference in Sharjah, which is being held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah and in association with waste management experts, Bee’ah.
“We are focusing on education because if we are going to work towards a sustainable future we must educate and engage with tomorrow’s consumers,” commented Saif Al Midfa, Director General, Expo Centre Sharjah.
Located within Dubai International Academic City, Amity offers undergraduate courses in a number of disciplines including solar and alternate energy, civil engineering, nuclear science and technology and nanotechnology.
“We have filed over 150 student patents in the last few months and currently have 250 ongoing research projects, including a number in the environmental and sustainable energy fields,” added Bava.
“This being our first year of operations we have selected recruited a total of 85 students on our various courses of which 53 are girls students and 32 are boys. Amity University intends to have two intakes a year, in February and September,” said Bava.
The scholarship programme is open to prospective candidates including Emiratis, female students, meritorious students, and mean’s tested applications.
“Through our diverse programme of science and engineering courses we hope to address the disparity between business and science degrees, as only one per cent of the emirates’ students currently opt to follow an undergraduate career in the field of science,” said Bava.
“As testimony to the university’s unmatched focus on research, Amity’s 3,500 strong faculty is credited with filing the maximum number of patents by any university in India in the last one year,” said Bava.
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