Nearly 40 students qualify for the 2025 Cambridge Scholarships from Arusha Meru International

The Arusha Meru International School is once again rolling out the second season of its scholarships offering for students to undertake Cambridge Level studies at the education institution in the city.

A total of 38 students from various schools in Arusha Region who successfully excelled in the qualifiers exams have just been awarded with scholarships to study the international Cambridge curriculum at Arusha Meru International School (AMIS).

The candidates, according to a statement from the school management, are the ones who performed well in the 2025 instalment of the annual academic competition known as the “Youth Talent Hunt Scholarship.”

The scholarships, valued at 100 million Tanzanian shillings, are dished out to the winners through the Board of Governors for the Arusha Meru International School (AMIS).

Using the annual talent hunt program, AMIS will award scholarships that cover the students’ tuition fees for the successful candidates throughout the 2025 academic year.

Speaking at the award ceremony, the Head of Arusha Meru International School, Mustapha Nassoro, said the winners were selected from among 200 students who sat for the academic aptitude examinations.

“The goal of these annual exams organized by our school is to support parents with limited income but who have always wanted their children to access international education through the Cambridge curriculum, and also to reduce the cost burden of this education,” he said.

This was the second season of the academic competition.

So far, the scholarship program has already taken aboard more than 90 students in the Arusha region.

The program has managed to reduce the costs of tuition fees by more than 230 million shillings, while also raising awareness about the school and its international curriculum offerings.

On his part, the school Academic Master, Samwel Maura added that the qualifier tests, that are held at AMIS premises every June, motivate students from Grade 1 to Form Six to study diligently, knowing the competitive nature of the scholarship.

“It encourages many students to spend more time studying various subjects so they can compete and potentially win in these exams,” Maura maintained.

One of the candidates, Deborah Macha, who is a Form Four student at St. Monica Secondary School, said she always dreamed of enrolling for the international Cambridge curriculum.

“However, due to my parents’ financial status, I had to continue at my current school. When I heard about the scholarship exam at AMIS, I decided to take it—and thankfully managed to score 75 marks, which qualifies me for the partial scholarship,” Deborah shared her excitement.