York University International Student Scholarship & Award Program

The Global Leader of Tomorrow Award (4)
Value: $10,500 (renewable for a further three years of undergraduate study - four in total)
Eligibility:
•must have outstanding academic achievement (’A’ average or equivalent)
•must be nominated by your high school
•demonstrated record of community service, achievement in the arts or sports, and excellence in other areas of individual endeavour
•preference […]

November 9th, 2005

International Undergraduate Scholarships 2006 - 2007

The University of Strathclyde, Scotland’s third largest university, with around 15,000 students is a major international centre for research and teaching. It has all the benefits of a large, established university: wide range of research opportunities and courses, high standard of teaching and good quality facilities for academic work and for social life.
The University offers […]

November 9th, 2005

Wal - Mart Foundation : 2006 Scholarship Opportunities

Each year students of all ages and all backgrounds are reaching for their dreams of going to college. The Walton Family Foundation and Wal-Mart Foundation help provide these opportunities through various education initiatives such as the scholarship programs. Last year alone, Wal-Mart and SAM’S CLUB’S gave over $45 million for our company-wide education […]

November 8th, 2005

National Merit® Scholarship Program

The National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®)— a test which serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.3 million entrants each year — and by meeting published […]

November 8th, 2005

Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarships

In 2006, the Foundation expects to award 80 scholarships of up to $5,000 and 50 honorable mentions of $350 on the basis of merit to sophomore and junior-level college students who:

Have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment;
Have demonstrated commitment to careers related to tribal public policy or health care, and are Native […]

November 8th, 2005

Research Fellows in Economics of Innovation and Technological Change

The Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano invites applications for two positions as Research Fellows in Economics of Innovation and Technological Change
Sterling: Annual base gross salary: 19.500,50 Euro corresponding approximately to a net salary of 970 Euro per month. The position is full-time (36 months) and based in Milan (Italy).
Candidates’ profile:
Candidates […]

November 5th, 2005

Indonesia Education System

During The Fist Long Term Program (PJP I) some important changes occurred as a result of the national education development successes of the period. In the early stages of PJP I, the national education system was still based on three laws, Laws No. 4 of 1950 and No. 12 of 1954 on the Principles of […]

November 3rd, 2005

USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association (APAA) Scholarship Program

PURPOSE
The USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association (APAA) Scholarship Program was established to award scholarships to outstanding Asian Pacific American students at the University of Southern California (USC). Recipients will be selected on the basis of academic achievements, personal merit and ability to contribute to the Asian Pacific American community. The student’s demonstrated financial need will […]

November 1st, 2005

PORTUGUESE & COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: PHD STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, PORTUGAL

PhD Studentships in Portuguese NLP
The NLX-Natural Language Group at the University of Lisbon has various positions to work on the following topics: corpus and treebanking, ontologies, shallow and deep linguistic processing. This work is carried on in view of areas such as e-learning environments, the semantic web, question-answering or machine translation.
The PhD studentships are for […]

November 1st, 2005

Sumpah Pemuda

The Young Indonesians’ Oath (Sumpah Pemuda) is a declaration that came out of a meeting attended by organizers of various associations based on ethnicities. They agreed to merge themselves into one new body named Young Indonesia (Indonesia Muda), a proper name since a good chunk of the members were literally young — in their […]

October 28th, 2005

Undergraduate Exchange Program

The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP) supports students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, and Serbia in the United States for one year of nondegree academic studies. Applicants must currently be enrolled as a second-year student at a university in their home country to be eligible.
The program seeks to assist educational and […]

October 28th, 2005

Taman Siswa, a legacy of Ki Hadjar Dewantara

Indonesia has picked May 2 as National Education Day to honor Suwardi Suryaningrat for his contributions to the country’s education system.
Among the legacies of Ki Hadjar, who is better known as Ki Hadjar Dewantara, is Taman Siswa school, which he established in 1922.
What is it about Taman Siswa that makes it so special and important […]

October 25th, 2005