Dale Hansen, WFAA-TV’s sports director, will sponsor scholarships at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Hansen says The Hansen Foundation plans to raise $100,000 during its first year with a golf tournament and other events.
The first scholarships will be awarded for the 2007-2008 school year. Each scholarship covers four years of tuition, [...]
The Philippine Science High School System (PSHS) under the auspices of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announces scholarships offer for school year 2006-2007 to deserving graduating elementary pupils who are willing to be trained under a curriculum designed to prepare them for careers in science and technology.
Said initiative of the DOST supports the [...]
The Penans, a minority group and one of the most backward communities in Sarawak, can come out of their stagnated state if organisations like Petronas give a helping hand, The Star reported.
Stating this, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu urged the national oil company to “head-hunt” and adopt one or two Penan students a [...]
Thirteen of Africa’s brightest students from across the continent are benefiting from scholarships granted by the Western Union Foundation in 2005-2006 to help them continue their postgraduate studies. In Africa since 1995, Western Union Money Transfer® Service wanted to celebrate this 10 years important milestone by reinforcing its commitment to support education in the continent. [...]
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, or HSF, has awarded $25.3 million in scholarships to Latino students for the upcoming academic year and will accept applications for next year’s scholarships starting Aug. 1.
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s scholarships average $2,500 per student.
Sara Martinez Tucker, president and CEO of HSF, said, “It is essential to our country’s future that [...]
As higher loan rates hit students this weekend, Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pitching a measure to cut interest rates and beef up financial aid to college students.
The timing and broad goals of the legislation, however, have some Utah education and political leaders worried it may just be [...]
One summer day in 1993, when child psychology and Chicano studies junior Abraham Castro was 7 years old, he found himself standing alone outside a Southern California restaurant.
The people his family had paid to drive him across the Mexican border, dropped him off there and told him his mother would come for him soon.
“I didn’t [...]
WHAT STUDENTS AND PARENTS NEED TO KNOW
The rules for college loans are undergoing a host of changes. Here are the biggest changes and what they mean for you:
Fixed rates on Stafford and PLUS loans:
Since late 1992, the two largest federal student loan programs have come with a variable interest rate. Starting July 1, the rate [...]
Maryland students and families are getting hit with one of the largest interest rate hikes on student loans ever. Families across the country are pinching pennies so they can afford to send their children to college. They are willing to sacrifice a lot for a college education, but it is getting harder and harder as [...]
About 30 per cent of student-loan recipients in the previous student-loan programme have defaulted mainly because they cannot find jobs or earn less than Bt4,700 a month after graduation, student-loan fund manager Prempracha Supasamout disclosed.
He said the student-loan programme, which was open to students from low-income families until last year, had approved loans to 2.5 [...]
Local grads cashed in in a big way on post-secondary school opportunities, thanks to their high marks, leadership skills and community involvement.
Colby Ramsay, who graduated from Penticton secondary school, tops the list with the $140,000 Morehead Scholarship he won to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scholarship covers all the costs [...]
The Government of Japan is offering scholarships to Indian students for the academic year 2007 under the Japanese Government (Mombukagakusho:MEXT) scholarship programme.
Indian students, who wish to study in Japanese universities as undergraduate students, technology students or professional training college students, can avail the programme, a press release issued by the office of the Consulate General [...]