{"id":9756,"date":"2016-08-09T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:14:19","slug":"downloading-uwc-scholarship-application-form-fee-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/downloading-uwc-scholarship-application-form-fee-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloading UWC Scholarship Application Form & Fee Waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That government school students might not know how to download the form should have occurred to me a long time ago, but it didn’t. Students asking me about it alerted me to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students at governments schools, firstly, might not have much experience on the internet apart from using social media — mostly Facebook — on their mobile phones. They most likely get their first experience with internet on a desktop and\/or laptop when they are lucky enough to continue their education after SLC<\/a>, the national level examination that most of them fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, if they do or when they do, they might not know how to navigate themselves on the platform to know how to download something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Printing is another problem all together! When I went to speak to the graduates<\/a> of Dolagiri School<\/a> two years ago, the Principal was kind enough to make copies of the sample application form I had taken along.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some relevant data on the percentage of households with the named household facility, according to the National Population and Housing Census 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Household facility<\/th>Nepal<\/th>Urban<\/th>Rural<\/th><\/tr>
Computer<\/td>7.28<\/td>23.66<\/td>3.37<\/td><\/tr>
Internet<\/td>3.33<\/td>12.11<\/td>1.24<\/td><\/tr>
Mobile phone<\/td>64.63<\/td>84.07<\/td>59.98<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I would be impressed if a government school has computers, printers and internet access that students have regular access to AND use. Forget a child attending such a school — even in Kathmandu — having a computer at home, let alone a printer and internet access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when government school students I have talked to recently — about my life<\/a> and UWC Scholarships<\/a> — contacted me with requests for instructions on how to download the application form, I realized how much of an assumption I had made about the different worlds of Kathmandu.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While when I am talking to them, I am acutely aware of many aspects of their world<\/a>, because I used to live in that world one time<\/a>, there are aspects that just escape me, for obvious reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I am reproducing below pretty much the instructions I gave them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Yes, I do realize that those who don’t have easy access to a computer and therefore internet might not even see this blog post. HOWEVER, I am connected — through Facebook — to a number of those students I have spoken to at government schools.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, go to the blog post about the scholarship<\/a> and, once there, follow the instructions on the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1.2<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Or, go to the UWC Nepal website<\/a>, and follow the instructions below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1.1<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Clicking on the Nepali application form will take you to this page. To download it, follow the instructions below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2.<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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While I am at it, I thought I would also highlight something I hadn’t mentioned in the blog post about the application: the application fee and the provision for its waiver (though if you go to the post<\/a> now you’ll see I have updated it with that information).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Application<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The fee of Rs. 2,000 — approximately US$20 — could be equivalent to more than a month’s school fee<\/strong>, which, unable to pay, a significant percentage have to seek external support, as was the case with the Dolagiri School graduates<\/a>. Students who are not able to afford the fee, they’ll need to submit a letter from their principal with details to that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, if I could, I would have produced this blog post in Nepali to make it considerably more accessible to the target students for a vast majority of whom the medium of instruction is Nepali<\/a>. The issue is that, embarrassingly, I don’t know how to type in Nepali. Were I to try to do it anyway — with help from keyboard-layout map for Devanagari (the Nepali script) — it would probably take me a whole day to produce the blog, as opposed the half-an-hour it has taken me to produce this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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