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Versan sends off scholarship recipients

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Versan Educational Services held its annual Farewell Ceremony last Saturday 2008 at the Medallion Hall Hotel. The event was a gathering for the more than 250 Versan students preparing to study overseas.

The ceremony was a tremendous success with more students attending the ceremony than ever before. With the record number of Versan students going aboard to study, the Farewell Ceremony was filled to capacity with a number of students squeezing into the hall for information about what to expect while studying aboard.

The event featured an array of information with college student speakers, Jamaican companies and our director Sandra Bramwell Riley. The student speakers all past Versan students studying aboard, Dominique Lyew (Stanford), Elaina Chai (MIT), Lauren Chai (MIT), spoke about the educational expectations of the first year of college which serve as useful information to our outgoing students heading aboard. Rebecca Stuart, a past Versan student and currently at Lewis and Clark College, spoke about the financial aspects of studying overseas such as using loans to alleviate the college expense as well as tips to cut the cost of college expenses especially during a recession year.

The various companies featured at the farewell ceremony spoke about the services they were offering to students studying overseas. Caribbean Assurance Brokers Limited was offering students and parents alternative, affordable healthcare plans. 5linx was also present at the ceremony shopping their newest innovation the VOIP telephone so that parents and students can keep in contact visually as well as audibly while they are overseas studying. Also, The Math Clinic was at the function to offering its educational courses in Math and Physics for students who would like to get a head start in college by offering courses over the summer.

Sandra Bramwell, was the final speaker at the event and she discussed general college survival tips as well as offered her congratulations and well wishes to the ongoing students for their hard work over the past year.

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