Oyu Tolgoi awarded 30 students with full scholarship

Oyu Tolgoi awarded 30 students with its company scholarship today
reaffirming its vision, “Natural resources to enduring value, knowledge
and skill” for Mongolia.

Since 2010 the company has provided
scholarships and other educational benefits to 3,252 students by its
tailored leadership and career development programmes.

Oyu
Tolgoi scholarships consists of full academic year tuition, monthly
allowance and living expenses for rural students on a needs basis.

This
year the scholarship award ceremony was held virtually where 20
students received a scholarship to study at the university of their
choice and ten students will be studying a new curriculum on mining
geotech at the Mongolian National University of Science and Technology
developed under the MoU between the mine and the university.

The
purpose of this programme is to prepare globally competitive
geotechnical engineers locally, using resources and training at the
world-class Oyu Tolgoi mine.

Scholarship recipients will also be

given an opportunity to enrol in Oyu Tolgoi’s Youth Development

Programme designed for their personal development.