Career Advancement Scholarship deadline extended

The deadline for the Career Advancement Scholarship application which is sponsored by the Berkshire Business & Professional Women’s Organization has been extended to April 15. The scholarships are for Berkshire County women ages 25 or older who have returned to school to advance their careers.
Contact June Roy-Martin, Scholarship Chair at (413) 442-4166, ext. 119 […]

March 31st, 2008

SLEMCO’S annual scholarship events nears

Many Teche Area students who graduate this spring are looking for scholarship money to attend college in August.
Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation, a state organization, is offering a scholarship program and will be accepting applications for 20 college scholarships, worth $2,000, to be awarded in a random drawing at the cooperative annual membership meeting June […]

March 9th, 2008

Zonta Club offers scholarship for 2-day trip aboard ‘Inland Seas’

The Zonta Club of Leelanau County, an international women’s service club, will offer a scholarship aboard the Inland Seas Education Association’s
schoolship Inland Seas to a young woman in the ninth, tenth or eleventh grades.
As part of the Zonta-sponsored “Young Women in Science” program, the scholarship recipient will spend two days sailing aboard the Inland Seas […]

March 9th, 2008

Sri Lanka: Scholarship for English teacher to visit UK

The Bell Sri Lanka Scholarship has been created to give a Sri Lankan teacher or educational manager an opportunity to attend a two- week, all expenses paid English language programme at Bell Bedgebury Language Centre in the UK.
It also builds on Bell’s previous charitable work in Sri Lanka, where money raised by friends of Bell […]

March 9th, 2008

Agency offers scholarship competition

The Circle of Concern is accepting applications for its 2008 scholarship competition.
Completed applications are due by Friday, March 28, at the Circle of Concern, P O Box 444, Valley Park, Mo., 63088. Awards will be announced May 1.
The competition is open to graduating high school seniors who live or attend school in the Parkway, Rockwood […]

March 9th, 2008

AULA´08, The International Educational Opportunities Exhibition

Ifema has already set the dates for the staging of the sixteenth edition of the fair, AULA´08, the International Educational Opportunities Exhibition, which will take place at its usual venue, Feria de Madrid, between 2nd and 6th April 2008. Over a number of years this event has consolidated its position as the leading Spanish event […]

February 25th, 2008

Moody’s Reviewing Some Student Loan Securities After Auction Interest Rates Rise

Moody’s Investors Service said higher auction rates for securities backed by student loans could lead to a downgrade of some that have low collateral.
The ratings agency said under-collateralized subordinate tranches of student-loan backed securitizations “have become vulnerable to downgrade risk to the extent that this higher than usual pricing is sustained.”
Student loan lenders package loans […]

February 5th, 2008

Study abroad application deadline approaching

MTSU students who want to broaden their educational lives by experiencing other cultures in other countries have a new source of funding to help them pay for their study-abroad trips.
However, time is of the essence because students wishing to take advantage of these opportunities have tight deadlines to meet.
The MT Abroad Office is offering a […]

February 5th, 2008

Summer Study Abroad ’08: Sign up now to participate

The summer study abroad program is one of UD’s most successful and attractive programs and provides students with the unique opportunity to take time to expand their cultural horizons without leaving their education behind. Each year the program grows and improves, and this year is no exception, according to Sally Raymont, the program’s director.
Summer study […]

February 5th, 2008

Scholarship applications available for RYS clients

Applications for the Virginia Walker Memorial Scholarship are available for individuals who have been served by Regional Youth Services, a private, non-profit agency.
Anyone who has received foster-care-related services through any RYS program, regardless of age, and wants to take college or trade-school courses may apply for the scholarship, which will be a minimum of $500.

February 5th, 2008

SpinLife.com Announces New College Scholarship Program

SpinLife.com, the country’s largest internet retailer of mobility equipment, announced today the development of the SpinLife Innovation in Motion Scholarship program designed to aid college students in their academic endeavors. The annual scholarship is open to students who are manual or electric wheelchair users enrolled at an accredited 4-year institution and applications will be accepted […]

February 5th, 2008

Contestants needed for 2008 Miss Dogwood Scholarship Pageant

Entries from contestants in the Miss Dogwood Scholarship Pageant are now being accepted. The pageant will be held at 3 p.m. March 29 at the Siloam Springs High School Performing Arts Auditorium.
The pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Arkansas, Miss Arkansas’ Outstanding Teen and the Miss Arkansas Teen Beauty pageants. The Dogwood winners […]

February 5th, 2008