THREE Filipinas have earned educational funding under the “Asean-UK SAGE [Supporting the Advancement of Girls’ Education] Programme” and the British Council’s “Women in STEM” scholarships. Both scholarship schemes aim to address gender disparities in access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
THREE Filipinas have earned educational funding under the “Asean-UK SAGE Programme” and the British Council’s “Women in STEM” scholarships.
Meanwhile, the other was made available to women from South Asia, East Asia, wider Europe and the Americas. Recipient of the Asean-UK SAGE Women in STEM scholarship is Maria Andrea Kristina Onglao, who is taking up Master of Science in Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning in London’s Imperial College.
Asean-UK SAGE is the UK’s flagship education program in Southeast Asia aiming to improve foundational learning outcomes in basic literacy and numeracy, support girls and marginalized groups to access education, and break down gender barriers in digital skills and employment, thus empowering young women to flourish to their full potential. It was made available for the first time to eligible women in Asean member-states and Timor-Leste.
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