Scholarship grants

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 22

Scholarship grants

Four scholarships have been provided by the New Zealand Government to the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, at a cost of $U543,000. They are primarily for the study of engineering by Asian graduates. Two scholarships have been awarded and $U525,500 of the grant has been paid. The other scholarship recipients have yet to be selected. Twenty-four-year-old Tariq Mahmood Qureshi, of Gujranwala, Pakistan, is studying for his master’s degree in structural engineering, and 26-year-old Virraphol Taesmbat, of Lopburi, Thailand, is studying water science and engineering.

Students at the institute are drawn from Government service, business and industry, and the academic staff of the region’s engineering schools. They continue their studies, at graduate and postgraduate level, of problems especially applicable to Asia. The institute now attracts qualified engineering graduates from 18 Asian nations. The New Zealand Ambassador to Thailand (Mr E. H. Halstead) recently met the two scholarship holders and discussed some of the problems of engineering, tedinological advance, and development in Asia.