53 students to receive built environment bursaries from DPWI
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) will on Tuesday, 1 February, award bursaries to students who excelled in matric last year for studies in the built environment. The DPWI has a bursary programme linked to an overall Skills Pipeline Project whereby students are encouraged at school level to consider careers in the built environment.
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The programme is aimed at increasing the number of built environment professionals from previously disadvantage groups to represent the demographics of the country and ensure transformation of the built environment sector. It further serves as feeder to the departmental Internship and Young Professionals Programme and later forms a pool of qualified built environment professionals to serve the state in the delivery of infrastructure projects.
The bursary accommodates the following study areas: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Marine Engineering, Property Studies / Real Estate, Actuarial Science, Quantity Surveying, Construction Project Management, Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Town and Regional Planning. Bursary recipients are required to enrol for a bachelor's degree in any of these fields of study and at a traditional university in the country.
The bursary covers tuition, accommodation, meals, textbooks, project and compulsory study resources and a monthly allowance.
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