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Best learners awarded with substantial cash incentives

Astrido Barth-Philander (middle) from Dr Lemmer High School is one of the top performers in last year’s Grade 12 examinations. This week he received a cash prize of N$4000. He is congratulated by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alfred llukena (right) and Standard Bank Namibia’s Head of Marketing Thaddius Maswahu.

Astrido Barth-Philander (middle) from Dr Lemmer High School is one of the top performers in last year’s Grade 12 examinations. This week he received a cash prize of N$4000. He is congratulated by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alfred llukena (right) and Standard Bank Namibia’s Head of Marketing Thaddius Maswahu.

Standard Bank Namibia said this week it has awarded cash prizes worth N$260,000 to 104 top performing Grade 10 and 12 learners of 2013.
 The award ceremony was recently held in Windhoek and the announcement was made earlier this week.
The bank said “This forms part of Standard Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Ministry of Education in investing a total of N$1.3-million for education over a five-year period through its Academic Excellence programme.”
As a Corporate Social Investment initiative, Standard Bank Namibia’s Academic Excellence programme is incentive driven and rewards the top three best performing Grade 10 and 12 learners in each region with a cash prize.
The top performer in each region for both Grade 10 and 12 received N$4000, while the first runner up received N$3000 and the second runner up N$2000.

The school of the top performer in each region was awarded a cash prize of N$1000.
Thaddius Maswahu,
 Standard Bank Namibia’s Head of Marketing, said he has no doubt that this award ceremony will encourage learners across Namibia to aim for the sky in all their endeavours and become valuable and great leaders in Namibia in the respective fields they venture into.
Standard Bank said its ‘Investing in Academic Excellence’ programme aims to enhance the academic performance of learners at schools in Namibia across all 13 regions.

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