MANILA — As the school opening is fast approaching more deserving youths continue to avail free tuition and allowance from the Quezon City government’s Scholarship and Youth Development Program (SYDP).
According to SYDP head Rogelio R. Reyes, more high school graduates from the city’s 46 public high schools are beginning to file application for scholarship while existing scholars begin renewal application for continuous scholarship.
Reyes said that under the program every year, the valedictorian, salutatorian and 1st to the 8th honorable mention of the graduating class from public high school of QC are qualified to apply for the program.
These scholars who are valedictorian and salutatorian can get as much as P40,000 for tuition and P10,000 allowance per semester for the course that they choose.
The 1st to 8th honorable mention on the other hand can receive a free tuition fee as much as P15,000 and P5,000 allowance per semester.
The tuition payment is directly paid to the school of their choice through a check.
The allowance, on the other hand, can be continuously received by the SYDP scholars through renewal step where they will provide the SYDP office with the computation of their grades through class cards, presentation of statement of accounts and others.
The scholars of SYDP will continue to receive the free tuition and allowance until they finish their selected four- or five-year course.
In addition, Reyes said that high school graduates who got 85% and above average grade can apply as regular scholar also.
“They can get a total of P5,500 per semester. The P4,000 will be for the tuition fee while P1,500 will be for the allowance.
The scholars availing from this program are required to maintain high grades.
However, it does not right-away terminate the scholarship.
“The scholarship can be terminated also but before we do we give first warning to the scholars especially during the renewal of their scholarships,” the SYDP chief added.
Last year a total of 2,342 SYDP scholars were added to the existing list of its scholars benefiting from the program.
“This is a great help for students like us especially if we enter a university of our choice. The amount of 5,000 allowance lessens the burden of my parents,” said Anamie Bagnol, a 2nd year Human Resource Development Management course at Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Sta. Mesa, Manila.
“It serves as a form of discipline on my part because I learned to value the scholarship I enjoyed and it trained me to persevere more,” shared Michelle Ramos, a 2nd Year student of B.S. Accountancy from National University who availed of the scholarship because she graduated valedictorian from a public high school.