LCWU announces scholarships for deserving students

Lahore, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore has announced scholarships for its students belonging to remote and unprivileged areas.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor chaired the scholarship committee and decided that the students from Interior Sindh, Punjab, FATA, Northern Areas, KPK will be the beneficiaries of 20 scholarships. According to the distribution all above mentioned areas will get five scholarships each.  

The Vice Chancellor called the deserving students (who fulfill all scholarship criteria) and awarded the following scholarships to them.

The mentioned (non-residents) students of LCWU at BS level will be entitled to full Silver Scholarships: Two from Gilgit, One from Kohat, One from Ranjapur, Two from Sindh, One from Baluchistan and one full Golden Scholarship to the resident student of BS program of LCWU from Hunza.

Addressing to the meeting Vice Chancellor Dr. Sabiha Mansoor said that LCWU’s aim is to emancipate young Pakistani women and to transform them through higher education from being silent, passive and helpless citizens into highly empowered leaders of society. “The importance of higher education for young women is a slogan whose significance is only being realised in the 21st century.

Lahore College for Women University, with its glorious past and rich tradition as one of Pakistan’s largest and oldest institutions providing education to women, is one such centre of academic excellence contributing towards a progressive Pakistan. The university has reserved a substantial sum of money to be dispersed as need based scholarships to the financially constrained students.

LCWU has distributed scholarships worth total Rs. 26 million on need based scholarships at the start of the financial year. This allocation of university resources is in keeping with the vision to make higher education accessible to students from all walks of life, she added.

Dr.Masoor further said that LCWU, which was then known as the Lahore College for Women, was established in 1922 as a seat of higher education for the women of Lahore and the surrounding areas but the management does not ignore the students from remote areas. It took the college 80 years to be elevated to the status of a full-fledged university, which now caters to students from across the provinces of the country.

The university is now opening its doors to more and more students, especially young women from constrained financial backgrounds, enabling them to fulfill their dreams of academic and extracurricular achievements.