The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Saturday urged the Public Services Department (PSD) to be more transparent in selecting scholarship recipients.
Its Youth Chief Alan Sim said students and parents have doubts whether the PSD really followed the selection criteria of academic performance, extra co-curriculum activities, family background and performance during the interview.
“Parents are disappointed when [...]

Winner of Peter Norrie Leadership Scholarship Announced
Katherine (Kaz) King, of Wellington’s Cambridge Hotel, has been named the first recipient of the Peter Norrie Leadership Scholarship.
The Wellington Branch of the Hospitality Association of NZ (HANZ) has established the twelve month scholarship to support up and coming leaders in the hospitality industry.

“As this book shows, Linux systems are just as functional, secure, and reliable as their proprietary counterparts. Thanks to the ongoing efforts of thousands of Linux developers, Linux is more ready than ever for deployment at the frontlines of the real world. The authors of this book know that terrain well, and I am [...]

Celebrating nearly 100 years as The Bible of the Mechanical Industries , the 28th edition brings together volumes of knowledge, information and data gathered, revised and improved upon from experts throughout the mechanical industries. Extraordinarily comprehensive yet easy to use since it premiered, Machinery s Handbook provides mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, [...]

Celebrating nearly 100 years as The Bible of the Mechanical Industries , the 28th editionbrings together volumes of knowledge, information and data gathered, revised and improved upon from experts throughout the mechanical industries. Extraordinarily comprehensive yet easy to use since it premiered, Machinery s Handbook provides mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, [...]

Jennifer Alcantar: California State Grant, Cinco De Mayo Committee Scholarship, Napa Valley College Foundation Scholarship — Lola M. Thorburn Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Sam Anthony: Wood Family Scholarship.
Ana Archundia: St. Helena Junior Women’s Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Wilson Barr: Golden State Seal Merit Diploma, Wood Family Scholarship.
Kris Bartolucci: St. Helena Native Sons Scholarship.
Jake Beltrami: Rusty [...]

The race for the brawniest and brainiest is on.
Ontario universities — the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier among them — are breaking new ground in their efforts to attract top-rated student athletes. Come September, for the first time ever, they will offer athletic scholarships of up to $3,500 to qualified freshmen.
Currently, such scholarships are [...]

Actor Hugh Grant will sponsor a scholarship at his old school in memory of his late mother.
The ‘Love Actually’ star will pay the annual fees of 12,840 pounds for one student every year at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London, where Grant studied in the 1970s.
The scholarship will be named after Grant’s mother Fymvola, who [...]

Lawmakers from all corners of Oregon are backing a new approach to college financial aid as the elixir to the state’s college-affordability woes.
But the plan is running into an affordability gap of its own, after fiscal analysts found that the costs could be 30 percent higher than originally thought.
On Friday, the House Education Committee unanimously [...]

The Catholic Schools Foundation held its 17th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner celebration at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on March 28. Troy Brown, wide receiver for the New England Patriots and trustee of the Catholic Schools Foundation was the evening’s featured speaker.
The dinner is held annually to celebrate and support the Inner-City Scholarship Fund [...]