Scholarship scheme to boost research launched

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012
Scholarship scheme to boost research launched

The government has unveiled a new scheme to grant one scholarship per educational institute, with the possibility of offering them to private organisations at a later stage.

Speaking at a seminar, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said a lot of previous research reports had been discarded or shelved and that new scholarships should be granted on businessdriven subjects relevant to industrial and trade fields.
One key condition in this scheme – dubbed initially “one scholarshipone educational institute” – is that private firms that make profits through projects funded by scholar