This scheme adds to a list of benefits that the company's employees now enjoy and includes housing loans, a saving scheme, health scheme and PC loan, plus more.
The Batelco Scholarship Scheme aims to achieve a number of goals that includes helping to defray employees' expenditure for their children's education, and increasing the number of students benefiting from scholarships, thus complementing the role of the Ministry of Education. Additionally, Batelco's support helps towards supplying the market with a qualified workforce to help push forward the national economy wheel.
'By offering further benefits to its employees, Batelco aims to highlight the importance and value of its workforce,' said Batelco Human Resources & and Government Relations General Manager Shaikh Ahmed Al Khalifa.
'The Company's management is confident that employees appreciate this initiative. Such endeavours have a positive impact on the company and the kingdom as a whole,' he added.
Some 77 employees' children have so far benefited from the scheme since its launch in 2000.
Shaikh Ahmed stressed that the scheme's committee applies transparent and fair selection criteria and conducts regular reviews in order to enhance the scheme so that more candidates can benefit in the future.
Batelco scholarship scheme offers more atudying opportunities for employees' children
For the 8th consecutive year, Batelco continues with its employees' scholarship scheme that offers 10 scholarships a year to employees' children to study at the University of Bahrain.
- Bahrain: Thursday, November 15 - 2007 at 10:25
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About Batelco
Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) is the leading integrated communications provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain and an emerging force among the regions key telecommunications players.
Batelco serves both the corporate and consumer markets in the most liberalised and competitive environment in the Middle East, and remains committed to delivering cutting-edge telecommunications to its customers in Bahrain and the MENA region. The Company's management and staff are driven by an enthusiasm for delivering the best customer experience based on innovation, affordability and reliability of products and services.
Batelco's specialised services cover the full spectrum of telecommunications solutions for residential and business customers and span a comprehensive range of mobile services, international roaming, high-speed Internet connections, satellite services, WiFi, MPLS IP-VPN network provisioning and management, Datacoms services over fixed, wireless and internet platforms, managed services, systems integration and enterprise solutions.
Batelco has invested $1.4bn in Bahrain's telecom infrastructure over the past 26 years, including significant investment in Next Generation Networks infrastructure which has reinforced the Kingdom's position as a leading communications hub. The Company's shares are listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange with a total capitalization of approx $3.2bn as of September 2007.
With an ongoing strategy to grow overseas, the Batelco Group incorporates joint venture operations in Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorThursday, November 15 - 2007 at 10:25 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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