Uíge - The United Kingdom (UK) ambassador to Angola, Roger Stringer Mbe, will present, on Thursday in the northern Uíge Province, the Scholarship Program named "Chevening" to students from the local Higher Institute of Educational Sciences (ISCED).
Speaking to the press this Wednesday, after a courtesy meeting with the provincial governor of Uíge, José Carvalho da Rocha, the diplomat said that these were scholarships to pursue undergraduate and master's degrees in the United Kingdom, intended for students from ISCED-Uíge.
Roger Stringer Mbe, who arrived this Wednesday afternoon in the northern province of Uíge, said that mastery of the English language is one of the main requirements for access to scholarships.
He also informed that, during the meeting he held with governor José Carvalho da Rocha, he addressed various issues about the development of the province, with emphasis on the agriculture sector and other issues related to the province´s development.
However, on the first day of the visit of Ambassador Roger Stringer, flanked by the vice-governor for the Political, Social and Economic sector, Sónia Arlete Fernandes Domingos Cahombo, and the municipal administrator of Uíge, José Raimundo Almeida Teca, he visited the falls of the Luango river, the Uíge Technological Center, as well as the Congo Ethnographic Museum.
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