Monday 5 May 2014

MSRG rules of eligibility to apply for the Grants

In order to guarantee a fair selection process for the winners of the 3 grants offered at the end of the course, we announced the following rules that will be applied on any applicant of the grants. to be eligible to apply for the grant you must:

1- show commitment to attending the course.
The course consists of 14 sessions, each one is considered to be 2 training hours with a total of 28 training hours. you must at least attended 60% of the training hours to be eligible to apply for the grants, this equals 8 hours. We consider being late more than 10 minutes at the start of the session as absence of 1 hour, and skipping a whole sessions as absence of 2 hours. Make sure to sign your name in the presence list when you come at the beginning of the sessions.

The whole course is planned ahead and we are not intending to change any dates or times in order to give you a chance to schedule your time easily. If any changes are to take place, we will announce it early enough, so no short notices. You can see the schedule of the course by clicking here.

2- Participating in home assignments
Home assignments are a vital part of our course, as it represents a part of the practical sessions we intended to deliver. So, commitment to participation in the home assignment is a true indicator that you explored the full experience of our course.

In order to be eligible to apply to the grants you should submit at least 75% of the home assignments. correct answers are not regarded, just submission is enough to show your commitment. We are planning to have a home assignment for each session. It will be announced at the end of the sessions, as well as on our webpage about the Workshop MSRG that contains the workshop chronicles. Click here to go to this page.

Submission will be decided for each individual assignment weather to be online or to be handled at the next session.

3- Post-test exam score.
At the beginning of the course, we gave you the pre test that aimed to measure your knowledge level about various topics dealt with during the course. These scores serves as a base-line that enables us to measure the change that the course introduced by comparing it with your scores of the post test which would contains the exact same questions of the pre test.

Another use of the post test is to estimate the level of knowledge you acquired, and weather it is sufficient to be able to carry a research. in order to be eligible to apply to the grants you should at least score 75% at the post test.

To sum up:

Do you want to apply for the grant? we will till you what to do
  • Attend at least 20 training hours
  • Submit at least 75% of the home assignments
  • Score at least 75% at the post test at the end of each course.

Good luck

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