Archive for the ‘Online Education’ Category

Ronald McDonald House Awarding Scholarships

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts has announced it will award a total of $50,000 to 25 high school seniors this academic year through its scholarship program.
Students of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, with $30,000 allocated to eligible Hispanic applicants on behalf of the Hispanic American Commitment to Education Resources Program, [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Greece: Cosmote Awards Scholarships to Students

In the framework of its corporate social responsibility programme, Cosmote a leading mobile telecommunications company in Greece awarded 10 scholarships and 25 honorary distinctions to first-year university students coming from other than Attica areas of Greece.
Each scholarship is worth 12,000 euros, and the honorary awards are 1,000 each. “Participation” is part of Cosmote’s CSR [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

DemandTec Awards Scholarships to Winners of First Annual ‘Model for Success’ Math Contest

Three High-School Students Win a $5,000 College Scholarship in Math Contest That Challenged Them to Create a Retail Sales Forecast
Yahoo News. DemandTec today announced the successful culmination of its first annual Model for Success program by awarding each of the three winners of the contest a $5,000 scholarship to be used for college, university, or [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Bank offers scholarships

QNB, the country’s top financial institution, has offered four new scholarships totalling QR176,000 to Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQ) for promising students.
“QNB is focused on community development and we are pleased to offer this scholarship programme to VCUQ students in our efforts to support educational excellence. We are confident that such support will provide [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Rhodes Trust awards scholarships to 32 students from U.S. schools

Thirty-two college students from across the United States have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2006, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.
The scholars, selected from 903 applicants who were endorsed by 333 colleges and universities, will enter Oxford University in England next October. The scholarships are the oldest of the international study awards available to American [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Malaysia To Offer Scholarships To 15 Top Foreign Students Annually

Malaysia will offer tertiary scholarships to 15 top students from foreign countries each year as part of the effort to position the country as a regional centre of excellence for higher education.
“We want the cream of the cream, meaning we want to select the best to come here and that is why 15 students will [...]

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Pupils ‘missing out’ on first-choice schools

Chris Johnston
Thousands of secondary school students have failed to win places at their first-choice school and more than 20,000 have launched appeals, according to a survey released today.
The survey, published in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), found that half of 11-year-olds in some parts of England have been forced to enrol at their school of [...]

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Syllabus for International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO)

Syllabus for International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO)
1. Science Skills and Safety :
Understanding scientific methods and working in the laboratory.
Identify and use basic laboratory equipment
Draw scientific diagrams of apparatus
Follow intructions inthe laboratory
Follow safety techniques when using equipment
Measure temperature and volume
Make observations using the five senses
Make inferences based on observations
describe the scientific method
record a science experiment using [...]

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Undergraduate Scholarships for International Students at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne is one of the UK’s leading teaching and research universities, with a wide variety of undergraduate courses. We offer a large number of:
International Undergraduate Merit Scholarships (IUMS) for international students who study for their first degree at Newcastle. All applicants are considered, based on the information given on their [...]

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships, University of Liverpool

The Faculty of Engineering has established a large number of entrance scholarships worth up to £2000. They are available to well qualified applicants who wish to be admitted into Year 1 of a degree programme (excluding programmes which include a Foundation Year).
Students offering overseas qualifications with excellent grades, including IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent) will be [...]

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Open Society Institute (OSI) 2006-2007 Undergraduate Exchange Program

The Open Society Institute (OSI) is pleased to announce the Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP) for the 2006-2007 academic year. UEP supports students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, and Serbia in the U.S. for one-year of non-degree academic studies. The program seeks to assist educational and civic development in Southeastern Europe [...]

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

New Zealand Development Scholarships (NZDS) - Open

Formerly known as NZAID Postgraduate Scholarships
Applications have closed for study commencing in 2006
The application deadlines given below are for study commencing in 2007.
New Zealand Development Scholarships (Open):
- are only available to students from selected developing countries,
- are for postgraduate study in specific areas of developmental relevance to the student’s home country,*
- cover tuition fees, [...]

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005