Analysis on the Need of Scholarship for the Poor Students at International Islamic University Islamabad (Need Assessment)

Abstract

Education is the most important tool to escape from poverty and get better life however many families can’t send their children to get higher education because of poverty after merely completion of secondary school they send them to do farming or any other labor to earn because they cannot afford the expenses of education. Scholarships are the grants awarded to students to   peruse their dreams regarding higher education .scholarship are usually criterion based enjoyed by the higher achiever on merit neglecting the poor student who are where passionate and have dream of higher education but due to financial or social problem don’t get higher marks to satisfied the criteria set for merit scholar ship. So the purpose of this study is to identify that the children of the poor must be thus educated at common expense to minimize their problems and maximize their achievement as scholarship open door of study for poor students. Main aim of this study were to explore the need of scholarship for the poor students, find out the perception of poor students about the need of scholarship, explore problems faced by poor students in getting higher education and analyze the relationship of scholarships and academic achievement of poor students. It also explore the  need of scholarship for poor students and how it affect their academic achievement  this study also aims to find the perception of poor student regarding scholarship and what are the problem faced by poor student. This research was descriptive and quantitative in nature. Instrument was questionnaire. Population of study included 66 male and female perspective students from international Islamic university Islamabad. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample 6 students of total population were selected as sample of study from international Islamic university. Data was collected through personal visit of researcher to perspective students and questionnaire was used as for data collection Major findings includes 54% students face the financial problem, 12% students have less resources,16% cannot afford the expenditures of higher education, 7% students want to support their families by earning, 7% have more siblings who are also enroll in higher education, 3% students are orphan, have no guardian that can pay their dues of higher education.