The Taiwanese Embassy is once again accepting applications for its scholarship program for Belizean students to go study in that country.
Today, the Embassy hosted their annual scholarship briefing, and 7News attended. Here's what the Taiwanese Ambassador told us about how you can get into the programme:
H.E. David Wu, Taiwan Ambassador to Belize
"Today is the briefing for the year 2014 scholarships awarded by Taiwan. There are 2 kinds of scholarships; one is called ICDF, that's stands for International Cooperation and Development Fund and this program will be taught in English and it will be divided into post-graduate and under-graduate. Last year we had 21 students who were awarded this ICDF scholarship. The other one is called the Taiwan Scholarship. This scholarship is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan and this program is study is Mandarin Chinese. For those who speak English when they go to study in Taiwan for this scholarship, they need to learn one extra year of Mandarin in the language center."
"It will be very tough, but if they can overcome the difficulties - they can really benefit by learning Mandarin because nowadays Mandarin is very important and very useful for the huge market of Asia where Mandarin is the number language spoken. I encourage Belizean students, if they are willing to accept the challenge and to go to Taiwan to study in Mandarin - very tough, but if they overcome the difficulty they can benefit more."
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2014, and links will be posted on our 7News website for persons who want additional information.
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