A group of full time Strathclyde MBA students has kick started a scholarship fund. Called ‘Touching Lives’, the aim is for current full time MBA students to contribute to a student scholarship fund which will be open to applicants to the full time MBA programme for the 2009-2010 session. Whatever money is raised by the students will be matched by Strathclyde Business School.
The idea was sparked by one of the students and his experiences of applying for a scholarship to study at Strathclyde and he wanted to help future students get the same experience and benefits of studying as he has had over the past year at Strathclyde.
Rajendran Chandranathan, along with fellow students Sandy Wilson, Uloma Jide-Afonja, Luis Garcia and Nitin Mehta, hope classmates will get behind the plans to ‘touch lives’ and help future students get on to the MBA programme. So far, students have been enthusiastic about the plans.
Applicants to the fund will be chosen on work experience and merit and will also be expected to write an essay with a ‘Touching Lives’ theme. The Touching Lives group will then make recommendations to Strathclyde Business School’s admissions panel for a final decision.
Rajendran explains, “With my experience of the Strathclyde MBA I was keen to help another student gain a similar experience so came up with the initial idea of a student scholarship. I got together with some fellow students who were also enthusiastic about the idea and we hope to get all our fellow full-time MBA students to contribute as much as they can to help a student next year.
“We envisage this as a rolling initiative, with each future cohort helping to support a scholarship for the next year. It is a chance to give something back; for the students, by the students.”
More information on the scholarship fund can be obtained by emailing touchinglives@lists.strath.ac.uk