FURTHER EDUCATION
St. Antony's School educates children up to 10th Standard (age 16). All students that have left after taking the Government examinations have passed with high marks. All students have either gone on to take further education in other schools or on to training schemes. Wherever possible, if the families of the students can not afford to pay for the further education, The Kanji Project is helping with some funding.
The equivalent qualification to our 'A' levels, is the examination taken at the end of Plus 1 and Plus 2 standards. This has to be undertaken in other schools as St. Antony's currently does not have the space or facilities.
Some of the older girls from Shanthi Lumine children's home are studying nursing in Tiruvannamalai while other school leavers are training as engineers and motor mechanics, and another as a teacher.
Nursing Students Prabhu Engineering Student Sakthi Engineering Student
Buvan, a 17 year old girl, who studied at St Antony's, has been given a free place to study medicine in the college of her choice. Buvan scored the best marks in her class out of 30 in her 12th standard exams.
Buvan Scholarship to study Medicine Nursing Student Ramadhass
Ramadhass left St. Antony's in 2008 and is studying a 4 year course to qualify for his Bsc in Nursing. The photo above shows Ramadhass with Maria who runs the school and children's home.