Tri­nis con­tin­ue to shine in the pan­theon of acad­e­mia.Once more, for­mer Na­pari­ma Girls' High School stu­dent Em­ma Per­ot has done her al­ma mater proud by win­ning the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent Schol­ar­ship, in the Unit­ed King­dom, for Trinidad and To­ba­go.Per­ot, a Law stu­dent, is its most re­cent re­cip­i­ent.

To date, Per­ot has just com­plet­ed her first year at the Uni­ver­si­ty's Kent Law School. Shar­ing in Per­ot's suc­cess and mile­stone is her proud moth­er Guardian South Bu­reau man­ag­er Hazel Ross-Per­ot.Re­flect­ing up­on her choice of a uni­ver­si­ty, the young Per­ot said: "When I was con­sid­er­ing my uni­ver­si­ty ap­pli­ca­tions and choic­es, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent ap­pealed to me in many ways. Among them were its beau­ti­ful 300 acre Can­ter­bury cam­pus, its stu­dent com­mu­ni­ty, and of, course, its award-win­ning Law School.

Per­ot added: "You can imag­ine my de­light when I learned I was the re­cip­i­ent of the Chan­cel­lor's schol­ar­ship. I would like to thank Prof Sir Robert Worces­ter for his gen­eros­i­ty, and the sup­port and en­cour­age­ment his schol­ar­ship pro­vides."Mov­ing a vote of con­fi­dence, Prof Sir Robert Worces­ter said: "Once again, I am de­light­ed to be in a po­si­tion to help yet an­oth­er re­mark­able young per­son from Trinidad and To­ba­go. It is a coun­try with which I have many per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al con­nec­tions. I wish Em­ma every suc­cess with her stud­ies here at Kent. I have no doubt she will go on to great things."

About the Kent Schol­ar­ship

It was es­tab­lished in 2008 by Prof Sir Robert Worces­ter, Chan­cel­lor of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent. It is avail­able to all new full-time in­ter­na­tion­al ap­pli­cants, ei­ther un­der­grad­u­ate or post­grad­u­ate. The Chan­cel­lor's Schol­ar­ship for Trinidad and To­ba­go is worth £1,000 GBP, to­wards the cost of tu­ition fees. The clos­ing date for ap­pli­ca­tions for the 2011-12 schol­ar­ship is Ju­ly 31, 2011.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Kent has con­sis­tent­ly been rat­ed as one of the best uni­ver­si­ties in the UK ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Stu­dent Sur­vey. The 2011 Guardian uni­ver­si­ty guide saw Kent ranked 27 out 118 uni­ver­si­ties and the Com­plete Uni­ver­si­ty Guide, pub­lished by The In­de­pen­dent news­pa­per, places Kent 38th-main­tain­ing its po­si­tion as a lead­ing UK uni­ver­si­ty.

The in­sti­tu­tion has a strong in­ter­na­tion­al im­pact, with long-stand­ing part­ner­ships with over 100 uni­ver­si­ties in main­land Eu­rope and ex­ter­nal net­works with lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties glob­al­ly. It is the on­ly UK uni­ver­si­ty with spe­cial­ist post­grad­u­ate cen­tres in Brus­sels and Paris.