BY JUNELYN KELLY
The Solomon Islands Tertiary Education and Skills Authority (SITESA) released the provisional Solomon Islands Government (SIG) Scholarship list on Wednesday this week.
The list was published on SITESA’s website – www.sitesa.gov.sb.
SITESA labelled the publication as a ‘provisional list’ – meaning it is not the final one.
Categories published include:
– Combine Pre-Service with 725 awardees
– In-Service Public Service with 53 awardees
– In-Service Private with 133 awardees
911 awardees in total were published.
Categories not yet published include In-Service Teacher and In-Service Closed.
A total of 1,440 spaces were purported to be in the scholarship list that was endorsed by Education Minister Tozen Leokana on Thursday, February 5.
This means 529 names are still missing, or are yet to be published.
Following weeks of calls from public for the SIG scholarship list to be published, a ceremony was held on Feb 5 in which Education Minister Leokana officially endorsed; what was said to be the official list.
That list was never showed to media. However, Island Sun was told it had 1,440 spaces and was expected to be published the next day, Feb 6.
But it did not happen.
Six days later, on Feb 11, the incomplete provisional list was published.
SITESA has not come out with explanations for the delay in publication after the official endorsement of the list by the education minister.
SITESA has not explained the incomplete provisional list.
None of the officials at the scholarship office could be reached yesterday for comment. Island Sun is following up on the matter.
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I just want to know when will the final list of SIG scholarship 2026 release