The Prudential Vietnam Life Insurance Company on Nov. 6 granted IT scholarships each worth 2,400 USD to 11 students who achieved outstanding results in the entrance exam of the FPT Aptech Institute.

The scholarship awardees will be enabled to participate in a two-year Aptech international programming course at the Hanoi-based FPT Aptech training centre.

Over the past three years, a total of 120 students from Hanoi, the northern port city of Hai Phong, the central provinces of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa, the central cities of Hue and Da Nang and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have received similar IT scholarships from the Prudence Fund.

Established in 2003 by the UK Prudential Insurance Group, the Prudence Fund has doled out 2.7 million USD (around 50 billion VND) to support IT, English and sport training programmes in Vietnam .

In addition, Prudential has also initiated many corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes with an annual budget of roughly 15 billion VND to back community activities in the country, focusing on education, support for children, social security and dissemination of financial knowledge for people./.