{"id":4078,"date":"2018-07-17T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2018-07-17T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T21:24:14","slug":"campbells-announces-bvi-scholarship-recipient-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/news\/campbells-announces-bvi-scholarship-recipient-2018-4078\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbells Announces BVI Scholarship Recipient for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
Campbells is pleased to announce that Dant\u00e9 Frett has been awarded our British Virgin Islands undergraduate scholarship for 2018.<\/p>\n
Dant\u00e9 is an ambitious student who will be journeying to England in the autumn to attend University College London (UCL) to pursue a 3-year Bachelor\u2019s degree in Natural Science. He will be majoring in molecular and cell biology and minoring in organic chemistry. Dant\u00e9 then plans to use this degree to pursue a career in public health, research and education back in the British Virgin Islands. In addition to having excellent grades, Dant\u00e9 is a very well-rounded individual who is actively involved in several programs and extracurricular activities such as the Caribbean Youth Science Forum, Rotary International Model UN Debate Team and student council Vice President of the Naparima College Environmental Club.<\/p>\n
“I would like to extend my sincerest gratitude to Campbells for awarding me this year’s scholarship. I am grateful not only for the financial assistance provided to fund my tertiary academic endeavours but also for the continuous support that will be reinforced through Campbells\u2019 summer internship programme,”<\/em> said Dant\u00e9 Frett. He adds: \u201cCampbells is one of a few, if not the only, local private organisations that provides this opportunity to BVIslanders regardless of their intended field of study, and their investment in developing the BVI is commendable<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to support this promising young local student with this year\u2019s 2018 scholarship,<\/em>\u201d said Mo Haque QC, Partner in the firm\u2019s BVI office. \u201cDant\u00e9\u2019s solid academic achievements and goal orientated attitude are what we look for in a scholarship recipient and we are proud to support him in his educational endeavours.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Dant\u00e9 Frett is the second recipient of the Campbells BVI Scholarship, which launched in 2016. The scholarship is available to BVIslanders and applications are accepted for both legal and non-legal undergraduate degree programmes, with preference given to applicants pursuing law.<\/p>\n Campbells offers a US$20,000 per annum scholarship in the British Virgin Islands, subject to agreed performance parameters being achieved by the scholarship recipient. Scholarship applications are accepted for both legal and non-legal studies but preference will be given to those wishing to study law. Applicants must be a BVIslander to be eligible for our BVI scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campbells is pleased to announce that Dant\u00e9 Frett has been awarded our British Virgin Islands undergraduate scholarship for 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[22,16,14,1133,2116,20,2119,2115,2108,2107,1268,2110,18,2117,301,2118,2109,513,23,17],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Campbells BVI Scholarship:<\/strong><\/h3>\n