By Liza Agoot with reports from Aiza Caramto, OJT/Philippine News Agency
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Commission on Higher Education-Cordillera Administrative Region (CHED-CAR) is still accepting applications for the scholarship under the Student Financial Assistance Programs (StuFAPs) until April 30.
“One of the thrusts of CHED is to provide access to quality education among financially disadvantaged but academically deserving students,” Christine Soriano, CHED-CAR StuFAPs Coordinator, said on Friday.
As of April 11, there are 1,143 students who applied for the StuFAPs, 614 of who are senior high school graduates and 529 are students who earned units in college.
There are three categories under the program- the State Scholarship Program (SSP), Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA) and the Grant-in-Aid (GIA) or the Tulong Dunong Program (TDP).
The SSP full scholarship applicants must have a general weighted average of at least 90 percent nd 85 percent for partial scholarship.
PESFA applicants must be high school graduates and those graduating in high school whose with a general weighted average of 85 percent and the applicants for the GIA or TDP must have a passing grade in all subject.
Those who qualify under the SSP will receive PHP30,000 assistance per academic year, PHP15,000 for the grantees of PESFA per academic year, and from PHP6,000 to PHP12,000 for those who qualify for the GIA or the TDP depending on the tuition and other fees prescribed by the higher education institutions (HEIs).
Soriano said to qualify, the applicants will be taking a college program listed under the CHED’s priority courses; Filipino citizen; high school graduate; the family’s annual gross income must not exceed PHP300,000.
She said grantees can only avail of one CHED scholarship.
For school year 2018 to 2019, there are 7,377 students in the Cordillera who availed of the CHED’s StuFAPs scholarship program. There are 6,975 grantees who qualified for the GIA, 254 grantees who qualified under the SSP and 148 qualifier for the PESFA.
Soriano said a total of 42 HEIs in the region have participated in the CHED scholarship programs.
She added that the General Appropriation Act of 2019 allocated an amount of PHP2.65 billion for the scholarship programs of CHED nationwide.
Interested students who graduated from Senior high school, and those with earned units in college, must present their certificate of grades, latest Income Tax Return (ITR) of parents or guardians and certificate of good moral character to the CHED regional offices or through their school scholarship coordinators.
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