Texas A&M International University students will have an opportunity to study abroad thanks to a generous gift from the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation.Shirley Gonzalez, foundation board member, explained the $150,000 gift represents an especially strong interest to assist TAMIU students by the late Guadalupe Martinez. Martinez passed away this spring after a lifelong tradition [...]
TAYLOR’S College Petaling Jaya in partnership with three Malaysian corporations is offering scholarships worth RM2mil to bumiputra students.
The inaugural Biasiswa Perdana Kolej Taylor’s was launched recently with the help of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad, Berita Harian Sdn Bhd and Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
The scholarships comprise three tiers with full and [...]
Brenau University has plans to offer two full scholarships each year to “deserving students from Zimbabwe” in a stepped-up program to expand the international scope of the Brenau campus and, in turn, hopefully make life better in that destitute African country.
The catalyst for all this is Anne Nixon, a Gainesville woman whose family adopted, “in [...]
Students were recently honored at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus for their scholastic efforts during a scholarship awards reception held on the campus. Some 61 students received scholarships during the spring semester from various campus programs, as well as external programs. The awards totaled more than $55,000. The spring recipients include:
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The Kiwanis Club of Decatur awarded three scholarships to Decatur students heading for college this fall.
The club’s annual Pancake Day each February helps pay for the scholarships, which are $1,000 each, as well as other programs that help children and youths.
Whitney Irvin received the scholarship designated for a 2006 graduate of Decatur High School. The [...]
The Australian High Commissioner, Dr Greg French, announced that Australia would provide six masters-level scholarships targeted at the public sector in Sri Lanka for the 2007 academic intake.
‘I am pleased to announce that Australia will continue to support education in Sri Lanka through the newly announced Australia Scholarship program’, the High Commissioner stated other day.
‘In [...]
Port Coquitlam’s Art Knapp Plantland & Florist raised $5,500 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation at its 9th annual Ladies Night on May 7.
The evening included a fashion show and offerings from Skindulgence Spa, Clothing, Curves, Starbucks, Pallas Athena Greek Kouzina, Creekside Fashions, Must B Wines, Body Shop, Pampered Chef and Mirabel Seafood.
Art Knapps is [...]
College costs keep spiraling upward, and now the cost of borrowing to pay for higher education is about to spike, too.
Students and their parents have taken comfort in a half-decade of ultra-cheap college loans, loading up on debt to cover the bills. About 8 million people borrowed $60 billion this year in education loans issued [...]
Scholarship applications are now being accepted by the Cowboy Capital Rodeo Association from any college or trade school students who meet the following criteria; have a permanent Bandera County address, completed at least 30 hours of college work or one-half of trade school course work, enrolled as a full-time student taking 12 or more hours, [...]
The federal government is contributing $25,000 to a scholarship fund created in the name of the first Canadian woman soldier to die in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the Capt. Nichola K. S. Goddard Memorial Graduate Scholarship at the University of Calgary is a “deserving and admirable cause” and he hopes his government’s contribution will [...]
The single-lender rule that prohibited student borrowers from consolidating their student loans with the lender of their choice was repealed June 15, 2006 when President Bush signed into law the emergency supplemental spending package, H.R. 4939. This has paved the way for student borrowers to consolidate their federal student loans with the lender of their [...]
A RISING star at a top Edinburgh hotel has won a prestigious scholarship to master the management trade in Switzerland.
James O’Donnell of the Balmoral Hotel will travel to the Swiss Hotel Management School, recognised as a world-class hospitality business school.
The 24-year-old will learn new leadership techniques from management maestros as part of the prize.