2018 Ontario tuition waiver scholars

The Aga Khan Academies are very pleased to announce that the 2018 tuition waivers for universities in Ontario, Canada have been awarded. The 2018 recipients from the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad are Arsh Lalani, Jemin Patel, Nakib Ramani, Amitha Vallapuram and Zahra Quadri.

The tuition waiver programme is part of a historic agreement signed between the Aga Khan Academies and the Province of Ontario to work together on mutually benefical educational partnerships. In recognition of shared values and standards, the tuition waiver programme provides access to world-class higher education in Ontario, Canada to outstanding Academies graduates in need of financial support. The agreement also includes a teacher secondment programme in which Ontario teachers are seconded for a period of time to the Aga Khan Academies in Mombasa, Kenya; Hyderabad, India and Maputo, Mozambique. 

Since the signing of the agreement in 2015, 10 need-based, full tuition waivers have been offered annually to Academies students from both the Mombasa and Hyderabad campuses. Recipients are selected by a committee through a rigorous process.

"I couldn't be more excited to be going from a place where I discovered my passion to a place where I will discover the world," said Amitha, who has secured admission to the University of Toronto to study computer science, mathematics and statistics. We wish her and the others all the very best, and would like to thank all those who have been involved in getting them this far!