What kind of college is a good fit?

Engineering colleges, polytechnics and partner institutions serving rural and semi-urban, first-generation students — exactly the students FAER exists for.

Do we need to run anything ourselves?

No. FAER runs the programme. What we ask is that your students hear about it and that a faculty member is willing to guide a team.

Our college has never entered. Does that matter?

No. Most colleges have a first year. What matters is one team with a real problem and one faculty member to guide them.

Put your students in front of FAER.

Fifty-plus colleges send teams to the Scholar Awards every year. What it takes from you is smaller than you think — and the students it reaches are the ones nobody else was going to tell.

Talk to us See the winners

Four things, and none of them cost you

What a school or college actually does.

You tell your students

Reach is the rung FAER cannot climb alone. Most students who could win have simply never heard the Scholar Awards exist.

You name a faculty guide

A FAER team is guided by a faculty member at their own college, named on the project and there through the year.

Technology Barrier Reduction

Seeing it is the first rung.

For a child who has never set foot on a college campus, the barrier isn’t ability — it’s never having seen what’s on the other side. FAER brings rural school students onto campuses like yours: into the labs and libraries, around mathematics, language, sport and the everyday life of higher education.

You already have the place. What FAER brings is the students who would otherwise never walk through the gate.

See how TBR works