Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme For Innovation and Development (PRESSID)

Posted on: Fri 22-08-2014

As part of efforts to achieve the goals of Vision 20:2020 and the Transformation Agenda, the Federal Government of Nigeria technological advancement, as well as studies in the top 25 universities in the world. To this end, the Federal Government has instituted the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID). The Scheme, which sponsors graduates that have obtained First Class Honours degrees from any recognized and approved university, was established in January 2012 and has awarded a total of two hundred and five 205 shocholarship under two editions (the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 academic sessions).The PRESSID Implementation Committee now invites qualified candidates to apply for the third edition (2015/2016 academic session)

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR THE SCHEME

Interested candidates should:

1. be graduates from the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 academic sessions, who would have completed their National Youth Service (NYSC)by October 2014;

2. have obtained First Class Honours degrees from any recognized and approved University in the following disciplines and aim at postgraduate degrees in the specified and allied programmes:

a. Sciences: Nuclear Physics, Operations Research, Industrial Chemistry, Quantitative Genetics, Biometrics, Molecular Biology etc;

b. Medicine: Clinical Sciences, Dentistry Oncology, Human Genetics, Forensic Medicine, Physiotherapy, Hepatology Nuclear Medicine, Geriatrics, ophthalmology etc.

c. Veterinary medicine: Veterinary Parasitology, Theriogenology, Public Health, etc;

d. Basic Medical Sciences: Biochemistry, Physiology, Dentistry, Anatomy, Medical Biochemistry, Human Nutrition, Nursing Science, Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Microbiology, Physiotherapy, Pharmacology, etc.

e. Pharmaceutical Sciences: Durg formulations, Natural products, Drug design, Phytochemistry, Ethnopharmacology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology etc;

. In the case of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, candidates must have a minimum of 2 Distinctions in their Part 3 and Part 4 MBBS examinations or in their final results

In all cases, candidates must:

a. Not be above 30 years of age by October 2014

b. be computer literate and

c. bt ready to be bonded and to work, preferably, as academic staff in any public university or research institute for a minimum period of five (5) years. Please note that universities in the United States of America require candidates to sit for the Graduate Record Exams (GRE) before they can secure admission.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Interested candidates should visit www.nuc.edu.ng and click on 'Apply for PRESSID' link (banner or menu) to complete the application, which closes on 18th October 2014. For futher enquires, please contact the Committee through [email protected].

ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE INVITED FOR

FURTHER SCREENING

Professor Julius A. Okojie, OON

Chairman, PRESSID Implementation Committee

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