The Budapest Times - Hungarian newspaper in English
- ️Fri Jul 24 2020
I’ve thought long and hard about what to write about in this, my first column of 2025. I recently returned from Sierra Leone where I read about Hungary’s Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme. Last year, 32 students from Sierra Leone were awarded scholarships to study in Hungary for their bachelor’s and master’s degrees with one of the 32 pursuing a Doctorate. I am strangely heartened by this, even though it had absolutely nothing to do with me at all.
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