What factors should be considered when deciding on scholarships that are provided by BLCEA?

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Permalink Reply by Abu Bilal BH on January 17, 2010 at 2:10am

Mahdi,

Masha'Allah this is a very good initiative. In my opinion, the following are key factors that would influence my decision:

1- Financial Situation
2- Grades
3- Drive and Ambition
4- ExtraCurricular Activities

I don't think gender, specialty or anything else plays a role. I would want to give the scholarship based on merit and hard work. The most important and primary factor is Financial Situation. This is the purpose of these scholarships. Students who have the capability but have financial limitatons need this scholarship support which would make
their dreams come true.

Grades, having drive and ambition, and enrollment in extracurricular Activities are all secondary factors that can help you identify candidates who Insha'Allah will be able to take study seriously and finish successfully Insha'Allah.

I would suggest that you have them submit essays about themselves and why they think the board should choose them.
Afterwards, You would then interview them to further identify the candidates. Pray Istikhara once you choose the candidates.

I would like to caution that you should be fair and give equal number of scholarships to both male and female.

Another approach that I feel would be worthwile is to post candidate profiles (without Names & Gender) and have a poll on your website. Let members of the site help you. Please dont post family names, you know what might happen!!

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Permalink Reply by Abdallah Issa Dais on January 18, 2010 at 10:16am

I think financial situation and grades are very important factors. However, people of Beit Hanina have to be given the priority for many reasons. Firstly, these scholarships are intended for Hanayna as they are the ones who donated land for the purpose of education - part of their land and property is used by Al-Quds University. Secondly, we need to encourage students to stay in their homeland and not to take education as an excuse to leave home. We want more Hanyna here. Thirdly, graduates from Beit Hanina can do more to benefit their town than students who live in other places.

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Permalink Reply by mohammad najjar on January 18, 2010 at 10:22am

I support these scholarships and should be based on academic stature and previous commitment and scholarly work done. I know things are limited there thus making it difficult to achieve such expereince easily, but I would favor categorizing the scholarships into science-medicine, engineering, education, etc. these fields have to produce scholars in the field who will ential return the service to the community. I think it should be limited to people from BH and I support the girls getting it equally as the guys would as well. There should be a contest based on essay form and background expereince entrenched with those who have high academic grades and calibre to succeed. The overall thing is for the scholarships to be used wisely and make people succeed.

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Permalink Reply by Mahdi A. Sbeih on January 19, 2010 at 2:07pm

These schoalrships are provided to the people of Beit Hanina as the first choice and if there are no Hanayna candidates, the association will cosider candidates who aren't Hanayna. This is as Abdalla mentioned because the land was donated to the association by Hanayna.

The idea of having candidates write an essay is a great one and I will pass this idea to the association for sure.

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Permalink Reply by ameera amin mohamd ibdah on June 18, 2010 at 3:27am

انا أرى ان المنح الممنوحة يجب أن نستغلها استغلالا صحيحا ولا تكون محتكرة ولا بأس ان تمنح لمن هو من القرية اولا , لان الارااضي لاهل البادة اولا واخرا
فمثلا اذا كانت الام حنينية هل يستطيع ابناؤها الحصول على المنح ؟
,اخيرا أسأل سؤالا هل أخذ المنح أناس من غير القرية ؟ الجواب نعم واكيد وهذا ليس خطأ ولكن ليكن ذلك مطبق على الجميع وليس على اقرباء المسئولين
ولذلك اقترح ان تمنح المنح لمن يستحقها حسب المعدل والنظر في ظروف الطالب المادية للراغب بالمنحة ,و لا تكون العصبية القبلية هي اساس المنح,ام أن القانون لا يسمح بذلك ؟ واذا كلا يسمح لم أخذها اناس من غير القرية؟
وهناك نقطة أخرى أن ينظر بطلب من تقدم السنوات الماضية للطلبة سبق ان طلبوها ويعطى حق الاولوية بغض النظر عن البلد .
لكي تحقق هذه المنح الأجر لمن استحدثها وتكون صدقة جارية لمن سهلها للطلبة , المتفوقين والمحتاجين من بلادنا المنكوبة في ظل هذا الاحتلال البغيض لنخرج علماء وأطباء وغيرهم لنرتقي بوطننا باذن الله

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Permalink Reply by ameera amin mohamd ibdah on June 18, 2010 at 3:58am

ameera amin mohamd ibdah said:

انا أرى ان المنح الممنوحة يجب أن نستغلها استغلالا صحيحا ولا تكون محتكرة ولا بأس ان تمنح لمن هو من القرية اولا , لان الارااضي لاهل البادة اولا واخرا
فمثلا اذا كانت الام حنينية وزوجها ليس من القرية ؟ ,هل يستطيع ابناؤها الحصول على المنح ؟
,اخيرا أسأل سؤالا هل أخذ المنح أناس من غير القرية ؟ الجواب نعم واكيد وهذا ليس خطأ ولكن ليكن ذلك مطبق على الجميع وليس على اقرباء المسئولين
ولذلك اقترح ان تمنح المنح لمن يستحقها حسب المعدل والنظر في ظروف الطالب المادية للراغب بالمنحة ,و لا تكون العصبية القبلية هي اساس المنح,ام أن القانون لا يسمح بذلك ؟ واذا كلا يسمح لم أخذها اناس من غير القرية؟
وهناك نقطة أخرى أن ينظر بطلب من تقدم السنوات الماضية للطلبة سبق ان طلبوها ويعطى حق الاولوية بغض النظر عن البلد .
لكي تحقق هذه المنح الأجر لمن استحدثها وتكون صدقة جارية لمن سهلها للطلبة , المتفوقين والمحتاجين من بلادنا المنكوبة في ظل هذا الاحتلال البغيض لنخرج علماء وأطباء وغيرهم لنرتقي بوطننا باذن الله

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