In a bid to attract more high-quality students, the University of Cincinnati announced two scholarship programs aimed at students transferring from community colleges.
The university will award four $6,000 per-year scholarships to community college students who graduate with a 3.75 cumulative grade-point average and are admitted into Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for two-year [...]

The Victorian government today announced $1.1 million in university scholarships to boost skills under the ICT Industry Plan.
Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Marsha Thomson, said the scholarships are spread across five universities and aim to attract high-quality students in ICT postgraduate research.
Thomson said the government is working with industry to develop specialist skills and [...]

CHEYENNE n The Hathaway Scholarship Program was approved Monday by the Senate Education Committee.
The bills creating the scholarship and funding the program are expected to reach the Senate floor this morning.
The bill creating the scholarship program, Senate File 85, was approved unanimously by the committee after adoption of an amendment offered by Sen. Charles Townsend, [...]

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has announced that the State will send 290 people abroad for post-graduate training this year.
Specifically, 120 people will go abroad to pursue their Doctorates, while 80 students will study for Master’s Degrees. An additional 90 students will take part in combined courses with part of their training time [...]

Richland 1 received five awards Jan. 20 from the state Department of Education for its outstanding adult education programs:
PALMETTO GO-GETTERS
Given to Richland 1 and Richland 2 for combined efforts that awarded students 371 high school credentials in 2004-05.
PALMETTO PERFORMERS
Given to Richland 1 and Richland 2 for their combined efforts in 2004-05 to effectively reach the [...]

The Law News Network - Clifford Chance is to offer two legal scholarships a year to Indian advocates and solicitors to sit the Qualified Lawyers’ Transfer Test (QLTT) in Mumbai or Delhi.
The UK Law Society is introducing semi-annual QLTTs in Mumbai and Delhi to allow Indian lawyers to qualify as English solicitors without having to [...]

The Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in Brunei Darussalam has announced in a press release the offer of Taiwan Scholarships to Brunei students to further study at colleges or universities in Taiwan.
The Taiwan scholarship programme is aimed at encouraging foreign students including from Brunei, with good records and high potential, to study in Taiwan [...]

BANGKOK - The Education for Development Foundation (EDF) and the Thai Muslim Women’s Friends Group have unveiled a project to find scholarships for at least 1,200 children who lost their parents in the violence plaguing the country’s southern border region.
The three-year scholarships provided under the project entitled, “Under the Same Sky” will be given to [...]

Lottery-funded scholarships are persuading many of the state’s brightest students to stay in South Carolina for school.
University officials credit the scholarship program with slowing the Palmetto State’s exodus of talent.
Nearly half of South Carolina students with SAT scores above 1390 plan to attend a college in the state, compared to just 16 percent five years [...]

Surprise Announcement Made Guaranteeing Full Scholarships to All 700 Qualifying Students Attending 20th Annual Fattah Conference on Higher Education
U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah made a surprise announcement today that all 700 students attending the 20th Annual 2006 Fattah Conference on Higher Education will receive full scholarships upon their acceptance for graduate school at any one of [...]

They knew what they came for, and it wasn’t just the money.
Brittany Contrascere, 18, a senior at Shelby High School with a 3.5 grade average, was among 23 seniors competing for nearly $80,000 in MedCentral College of Nursing scholarships Saturday.
“I’ve been accepted for nursing at Kent State University, but I’m not going,” Contrascere said. “I [...]

Back in December of last year, Xavier University received an early Christmas present in the form of a $250,000 check from philanthropist Sidney Frank, chairman and CEO of Sidney Frank Importing Co. Inc. The stipulation was that the funds be used for scholarships to deserving students.
“There was an overwhelming response from students regarding these scholarships,” [...]