Digicel, sponsors of West Indies cricket, in collaboration with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Thursday launched the Digicel Cricket Scholarship, which will give young West Indian cricketers the opportunity of playing cricket in England and other major cricketing nations, according to a release from Digicel.
Windies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is to be the [...]
In another demonstration of how ‘homes build lives,’ the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County has raised more than $28,000 since May for its college scholarship program through golf and fishing tournaments.
The Spring Charity Golf Tournament held at the Crooked Creek Golf Club in Fuquay-Varina raised more than $19,000. The Fourth Annual HBA Fishing Tournament [...]
The Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF), the non-profit subsidiary of the Caribbean Hotel Association, announced on 26 January the beginning of its 2007/2008 Scholarship Program for Caribbean hospitality employees, educators, and students wishing to pursue studies or professional development courses related to the tourism industry.
In 2006, the CHF reached a record amount of US $144,500, which [...]
The Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF), the non-profit subsidiary of the Caribbean Hotel Association, announced today the beginning of its 2007/2008 Scholarship Program for Caribbean hospitality employees, educators, and students wishing to pursue studies or professional development courses related to the tourism industry. Application forms are now available at the CHF website www.caribbeanhotelfoundation.org, and from the [...]
The Higher Education Act mandates that colleges cannot require students to fund Federal Family Education Loan Program loans through the preferred lenders suggested by their financial aid offices. Therefore, students and parents should keep in mind that it is their decision when it comes to which company funds their FFELP student loans including the subsidized [...]
A $1,000 scholarship being given by Chevron at the University of Colorado’s school of engineering and applied sciences is available – if you happen to be a supporter of “GLBT” issues.
“Unbelievable,” is how one parent put it after a son, an engineering student in Boulder, Colo., was notified by the school through an e-mail of [...]
The Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States offers one-year scholarships to U.S. undergraduates and graduates to study Chinese at the Mandarin at any of the approved Chinese language centers. A list of the centers is available online at www.tw.org/language/prgms.html.
Paper application forms are available at:
Center for Chinese [...]
Cebu congressman and house deputy majority leader Eduardo Gullas announced recently that the government has allotted P1.12-Billion for the scholarship benefits of more than 76,000 students in the country for next year.
Gullas himself an educator and one of the owners of the Cebu-based University of the Visayas and Gullas Medical College said, the scholarship fund [...]
The single-lender rule that prohibited student borrowers from consolidating their student loans with the lender of their choice was repealed June 15, 2006 when President Bush signed into law the emergency supplemental spending package, H.R. 4939. This has paved the way for student borrowers to consolidate their federal student loans with the lender of their [...]
Amberlee N. Hall has been awarded a $11,000 four-year Fraternal College Scholarship in a national competition with other students who are members of Modern Woodmen of Amer-ica. Modern Woodmen, a fraternal benefit society offering financial services, has local representatives and is based in Rock Island, Ill.
Hall, the daughter of Duane Hall and Cherri Free, Northport, [...]
The administration of Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza offers nursing and medicine scholarships to poor but deserving students in the province. The idea was hatched to address the migration of medical practitioners in the province to other countries in search for better opportunities abroad and to realize President Arroyo’s flagship program on job generation.
SP Santiago Cane, [...]
Earn While You Learn. UCLA Extension offers courses in the evenings, weekends and even online so you don’t have to take time out of your career to take a course, complete a certificate program or earn credit toward your degree.
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A 12-week course offering college credit costs less than a day of beauty [...]