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Published on August 9, 2007

Of 921 recipients in the first batch of scholarships, 93 have come back to Thailand to further their degrees.

"Some don't have problems getting admitted into universities overseas; they simply prefer to study in their home country," Wijit explained.

In the first batch, there were 178 recipients who insisted from the very beginning that they would enrol in Thai universities.

Wijit says he does not see this return of students as a failure of the project. "It constitutes only 10 per cent," he said, adding that it was most probably because the students were not fluent enough in the language used in the country they had gone to.

Wijit also pointed out that the number of scholarship recipients selected in the second year stood at just six. The scheme is now known as the Scholarship for Community Development.