Three Jamaicans are among the top recipients of the much coveted Erasmus Mundus scholarship for 2015. The awardees Kim Lee Campbell, Nicole Ennis and Tami Palmer will pursue Masters degrees in September.

Lee is a graduate of the Edna Manley School of the Visual and Performing Arts, with a BFA Degree in Dance Performance and Choreography. She has been offered a scholarship to pursue a two-year International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage and will begin her course at the Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet ntnu in Norway. Although not an EU Member State, Norway is fully associated with the programme.

Ennis holds a first degree in Biology from Yale University in the United States and will pursue a Master in Quality in Analytical Laboratories starting at the Politechnika Gdanska in Poland.

Palmer who holds a BSc in Land Surveying and Geographic Information Sciences from the University of Technology and will move on to studies in the same field with a Masters of Science in Geospatial Technologies starting at the Universitat Jaume I de Castellon in Spain.

Speaking at a farewell ceremony held recently in honour of the recipients, EU Head of Delegation to Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei, noted "Our three scholars are from three different backgrounds. This is the first time that we have on our records a graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.This underscores the quality of instruction and calibre of students that can be found throughout Jamaica and is not limited to either of the two major universities."