DISCOVERY Bauxite for 2022 continued its supports of youth in education.

The programme, valued at $8 million, includes financial grants and bursaries to 80 students attending tertiary institutions, and awards the 62 top-performing boy and girl in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations from the 31 all-age and primary schools in the company’s operating areas.

“The awards recognise academic as well as all-round performance and achievement, and we are satisfied that most have exhibited the high standards set by the qualification criteria,” said Discovery Bauxite’s vice-president and Country Manager Delroy Dell.

In congratulating the recipients, he pointed out that the success achieved by previous awardees, many of whom became distinguished doctors, lawyers, educators, government leaders, scientists, and engineers in their professional lives, was built on a disciplined approach to their studies which if followed could open similar career paths for the present awardees.

He said that the examination results indicated a determination to achieve excellence by the scholars who are from over 50 districts and townships across the company’s mining and shipping operational areas, and that their success is a credit to the interest in their well-being demonstrated by their teachers and parents. Dell was speaking to a representative set of scholars from the cohort of 150 students who have been awarded grants and scholarships by his company for the 2022-23 school year.

Discovery Bauxite also offers six major university scholarships per year for students pursuing first degree courses across engineering, social sciences, natural sciences, business, agriculture, medicine, education, and sports disciplines.