MANILA, Philippines - About $40 million have been set aside for Filipino scientists, researchers and educators to earn doctorate degrees, United States Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas, Jr. said.
The two governments raised the amount also for those Filipinos to go to American universities to gain their PhDs "and come home as Jose Rizal," Thomas said in a speech to launch a weather station in Corregidor.
The diplomat also said that the grant will allow American professors to visit the country's educational institutions for teaching, research or educational exchanges with Filipino scholars.
The project is one of the thrusts of a recently signed science and technology bilateral agreement between the two nations to expand scientific linkages and undertakings in the country, Thomas added.
More children will also be having access to science materials and instruction through the treaty, the ambassador said.
The Philippines is among the thirty countries which the US has science and technology agreements with, laying out a system of cooperation, support and sharing of S&T developments, according to the US state department website.