Japan’s Rs. 358 mln support to continue public sector schols
View(s):The Japanese Government’s Grant Aid for Human Resources Development Scholarship (JDS) Programme introduced in Sri Lanka in 2010 to provide opportunities to the executive level public sector officials to undergo Master Degree Programmes in prominent universities in Japan, is to be continued to 2020.
After the first framework (2010-2013), the second framework ends this year. However in response to the request from Sri Lanka, Japan has agreed to continue this programme for further period of four years. Accordingly, the third framework has been designed for the period of 2017 – 2020 to provide 15 scholarships per year to undergo Master Degree Programmes in Japan. After considering the necessity of further career development of JDS fellows, the Japanese Government has agreed to offer PhD programmes at most to two slots per batch.
The selection process of the first batch of the third framework will commence in September 2017. In order to facilitate these officials, the Government of Japan has offered a grant assistance of Japanese Yen 262 million (approximately Rs. 358 million) to Sri Lanka for the year 2018.