Sanral paves way for engineering students

The engineering sector received a welcome boost when the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) Northern Region welcomed 23 deserving students from Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West into their scholarship and bursaries programme at a luncheon in Pretoria last week.
A press statement released by the agency last Wednesday informed that the scholarship, which covers school fees, textbooks and uniform, is open to high school learners who display exceptional academic ability in Mathematics, Physical Science and English, with preference given to those in rural schools.
“Bursaries are awarded to students who have successfully registered for their undergraduate or postgraduate studies in engineering related to construction, the built environment and road management studies,” the statement read.
In order to ensure that recipients get the best out of the programme, Sanral has developed a buddy system where the students are able to build a relationship with one another in order to share any information required for academic projects and assignments.
During the induction event held at the agency’s Central Operations Centre in Pretoria, Educational Programmes Coordinator, Gcina Sentletse reportedly expressed the agency’s excitement about being able to invest in each candidate’s future: “We had to choose the very best from the many applications we received. Looking at the calibre of our recipients, we are excited for the future of South Africa. Sanral encourages young people who would like to build a career in civil engineering to apply for its scholarships and bursaries. The next round of applications for bursaries will open on 1 June 2018, while scholarship applications will open on 1 July 2018. All applications must be in by 30 September 2018.”
By the time of going to print Sanral could not provide the names of chosen learners in the province or their schools.

Story: Herbert Rachuene
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