This article is brought to you in part by St Joseph’s Institution International School Malaysia.

It was another milestone for St Joseph’s Institution International School Malaysia as it unveiled its first International Baccalaureate Scholarship Programme in Malaysia. Held at the Tropicana Golf & Country Club, the scholarship programme received two generous donations of RM1.5 million each respectively from Tropicana Foundation – a charity organisation formed by Tropicana Corporation Berhad and Lasallian Asian Partnerships for International Schools (LAPIS).

St Joseph’s, a Lasallian educational institution, is a brother school of St Joseph Institution International Singapore. Staying true to its Lasallian mission and values to transform lives and nurtures students to be people of integrity and to make a difference in society, this scholarship programme is created to provide holistic education experience to talented and capable students.

The IB Scholarship will have a total of RM3 million fund in its founding year and it will offer fee waivers of up to 100% to 12 qualified applicants entering Year 12 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in August 2016. The IBDP is widely recognised as one of the world’s most challenging educational programmes. It is a rigorous and exciting two-year educational programme which gives students the opportunity to gain access to the best universities in the world.

This post was originally published in The Expat Magazine (March 2016) which is available online or in print via a free subscription.