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EDUCATION SUB – COMMITTEE MENTORS OF FDNF SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
  • Chairperson – Ms. Penda Gibril Tommy
  • Ms. Iris Cassell
  • Ms. Lydia Ade Forster
  • Ms. Fatou Jeng
  • Ms Mary Decker
  • Ms Njilan Johnson
  • Mr. Minyan Jobe Ms. Sagarr Mendy
  • Ms. Hannah Acy Peters
  • Ms. Therese Cardos
  • Ms. Nellie Lloyd-Evans

 

 


Scholarship Prizes Objectives

  1. Create good-hearted scholarly competition amongst student to increase average performance.
  2. Increase the value and prestige of scholarly excellence so that students can immediately recognize the value of hard work and excellence.
  3. Provide a support mechanism for excelling students in an environment in which role models have dramatically changed.
  4. Develop a repository of data on excelling students for purposes of recruitment, recommendation to Universities, and other such purposes.


Selection Model
Awards Committee

  1. An Awards Committee is to be formed for the award of each and every scholarship or prize (hereinafter award).
  2. The Committee shall be composed of persons of high integrity and knowledge in the domain in which award is to be made.
  3. Awards Committee may at its own discretion develop objective and quantifiable criteria for selection.
  4. For each award to be made, at least 3 nominations shall be made by at least 3 nominators.

The Committee shall not give awards to relatives of Awards Committee members and employees of Sponsor companies

No Title Criteria Award
1. Francis Degaulle Njie Scholarship Prize
for Mathematics – Grade 12		 Excellence in the study of Mathematics Tuition – D1,500
Books  – D1000
Exam fees  -D1500
Stipend – 1500Total Award: GMD 5500.00
2. Francis Degaulle Njie Mathematics Scholarship Prize
for Mathematics – Grade 11		 Excellence in the study of Mathematics Tuition – 1,500.00
Books  –  1,000.00
Stipend – 1,000.00Total Award: GMD 3500.
3. Francis Degaulle Njie Mathematics Scholarship Prize
for Mathematics – Grade 10		 Excellence in the study of Mathematics Tuition – 1,500.00
Books  –  1,500.00
Stipend – 1,000.00Total Award: GMD 4,000.00
No Title Criteria Award
1. Francis Degaulle Njie Prize for Excellence
ALL GRADES, HIGH SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY
  1. Excellence in a study area
  2. At least 3 First Positions
  3. Selection by at least ¾ of the Awards Committee
  4. Tangible Demonstration of notable accomplishment such as an invention, book, patent, trademark, etc
 GMD 20,000.00Cash