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- Photocopy of the CXC and CAPE academic results

- Complete the attached application form

Applicants shall produce, at the moment of the application, a copy of their birth registration

form, 1 picture, copies of their school leaving certificates and grade slips, copies of their

CXC and CAPE results.

Applicants can also deliver documents at the Scholarship Office headed by Ms. Kelli Ann

Garrick in the Ministry of Finance, whose email addresses and telephone numbers

respectively are the following: kelliann.garrick@mof.gov.jm, 322-1046/932-5024.

The selection criteria are very clear, favoring those applicants with the best academic

results and who, due to their serious economic and financial situation (members of low-

income families), are unable to enroll in universities overseas. The number of scholarship

spaces always depends on our actual economic reality. The selection, which can be very

tough for the members of the Committee, involves a number of specialists (a Cuban doctor,

the head of the Cuban Teachers team, two consultant professors, an official from the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Head of the Scholarship Unit from the Ministry of Finance, an

official from the Ministry of Health, and some others) who go thoroughly through each

applicant’s file to determine who best meet the criteria.

SCHOLARSHIPS IN CUBA

ACADEMIC COURSE 2016-2017

Requirements

a) Birth Certificate. The applicant must be younger than 25 years old.

b) Have an education level equivalent to Cuban senior high school, i.e. 12 grades of

education.

c) Original Report Card containing the subjects taken in Senior High School or equivalent

level. This document must include all the subjects taken by the applicant in every year of this

level and their respective marks. This document must be translated into Spanish and duly

authenticated by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign

Trade of Jamaica and the Cuban Embassy in Kingston.

d) Students who have completed their senior high-school education must have passed 5

basic subjects. For the students applying for medicine it is mandatory to have passed Biology

and Chemistry.

e) Students must come from a low-income family, preferably from rural areas.

f) Applicants must submit a letter attesting to where their parents work.

g) Documents certifying that the applicant does not have no criminal records.

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