Australia

Border-Gavaskar scholarship winners in Australia

June 19th, 2006

Three young Indian cricketers arrived here Monday to undergo an intense six-week coaching stint under the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship at the Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE).
Mumbai’s Kshemal Vaingankar, a right-arm pace bowler, Karnataka’s Gaurav Dhiman, a right-hand opener, and Vadodara wicket keeper Pinal Shah have been picked by an Indian cricket board committee headed by [...]

Australia offers scholarships to Arab students

June 3rd, 2006

Australia has announced a scholarship programme for students from Arab and other Middle Eastern countries who wish to take tourism and hospitality management courses.
Australia’s International Centre for Excellence will provide scholarships for studies in five leading universities in the country.
Gai Kennedy, economic advisor and official in charge of cultural affairs at the Australian embassy in [...]

Australia hot for Shanghai students

March 1st, 2006

Australia is becoming a popular place for local Shanghai students to continue their studies, a trend that was obvious at the 11th China International Education Expo Tour, which was held in Shanghai over the weekend.
Nearly 40,000 students and parents crowded the annual international education tour organized by the Ministry of Education.
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Australia-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia

December 29th, 2005

The Australia program targets junior government officials seeking a graduate certificate, graduate diploma, or master’s degree in international and development economics at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government (APSEG), the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Nationals from the following five countries are eligible to apply: Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Mongolia, and Vietnam.
Candidates must [...]

2009-2011 Rotary International World Peace Fellowship Scholarship

April 18th, 2009

The Rotary International World Peace Fellowship, which culminates in a master’s degree, is now available for the academic years 2009 – 2011 at one of five universities in England, Japan, Australia, Thailand or Argentina.
Applicants should have a bachelor’s baccalaureate degree and the training and background to gain admission to a graduate program at one of [...]

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

November 13th, 2008

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and [...]

MAXIMUS Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend of $0.10 Per Share

October 16th, 2008

MAXIMUS, a leading provider of government services announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, payable on November 28, 2008 to shareholders of record on November 14, 2008.
MAXIMUS is a leading provider of government services and is devoted to providing health and human services program management [...]

Independent Review of MAXIMUS-Administered California SCHIP Program Yields Exceptional Results

October 11th, 2008

MAXIMUS, a leading provider of government services, announced today that it received exceptional results under an independent review performed by The Lewin Group for its administration of California’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Healthy Families program with an error rate of just 0.04%.
Under the Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) program administered by the Centers [...]

Australian Government Scholarships

March 31st, 2008

It was announced on the 26 April 2006 that Australia will double the number of educational scholarships it offers in the Asia-Pacific region. The new program, will be called Australian Scholarships, and will provide nearly $1.4 billion in funding over five years for more than 19,000 scholarships. (Note tables below) The program was announced as [...]

ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship for International Qualifications at NTU

March 31st, 2008

The ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarships are offered by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for students from the Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN (except Singapore). ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The scholarship is tenable for an undergraduate degree programme on a full-time basis at NTU.