(Front, from third left) Gamuda Berhad director Dato’ Ir Azmi Mat Nor, Mohammed, Gamuda Berhad director Raja Dato’ Seri Eleena Azlan Shah, and Gamuda Berhad deputy group managing director Dato’ Ir Paul Ha celebrate with the 15 Gamuda scholarship recipients.
KUALA LUMPUR: Fifteen Malaysian students will further their studies in prestigious local and foreign universities under the Gamuda scholarship award.
“It is a scholarship that nurtures high-potential students into future leaders through a comprehensive talent development system within a collaborative, inclusive, diverse and equal-opportunity work environment,” said Gamuda Berhad chairman Dato Mohammed Hussein during the scholarship presentation ceremony recently.
Gamuda scholarship, said to be one of the toughest and most prestigious undergraduate scholarship programmes in Malaysia, goes beyond providing financial assistance because upon graduation, the graduates will be guided through a career development plan for fast-track career progression.
The 15 successful this year were shortlisted from 870 applications.
Total value of scholarship granted this year is RM4.4 million, which is the greatest amount thus far in Gamuda scholarship’s history.
For the past 20 years, Gamuda has allocated almost RM30 million worth of scholarships to almost 300 recipients.
Tania Goh, 20, from Kota Kinabalu will go for a civil engineering study in University Malaya.
She is among one of the eight women recipients of the scholarship.
“Receiving this scholarship means I can realise my dream to be an engineer without burdening my family,” said Goh, adding that other scholarships she had applied for were not successful.