Our society put an immense importance on learning and education. We even put a higher top priority on education abroad. This is for the fact that everything from education, language to business is getting global. And getting the best knowledge and skills is to get it from countries that excelled in the field that you have chosen. Internship abroad is one way of enhancing one’s skills, acquire exposure to international setting.
Internship abroad is an expensive enterprise for the parents and student. In fact, parents with foresight of the exorbitant expenses of internship abroad saved for years for their child’s education abroad.
Now, not only universities and colleges are interested in internship abroad but also countries. Asian countries like Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Singapore are now an internship destination for students around the globe. Not only Northern but also Southern countries are encouraging there students to go abroad for internship by offering them grants. This is just evidence that countries are helping their citizens go global by funding abroad internship grants and scholarship.
An example is the Environmental Management and Research Association of Malaysia that is attracting Malaysian students with fervor for environmental management to get interested in applying for the K. Kumarasivam Young environmentalist Internship Award.
The selected candidate will be placed in a two week internship abroad in the core of environmental abroad. The scholarship will cover the expenses for accommodation, travel, living expenses and allowances. Last year’s intern students are placed in countries such as Thailand, Australia, Korea and Germany.
Thus, scholarship such as this one is supported by the countries government. This is also to ensure that the work force in their country is globally competitive.