Islamabad: Scores of Pakistani students have reached in Cuba while several hundreds are expected to leave soon on a Cuban Government scholarship aimed at providing free education and boarding facilities to one thousand Pakistani medical students.
Of those 26 of these Pakistani students have reached Cuba on 12th of February last, and about 368 more Pakistani [...]
Young women are sometimes told that once you have a child, all your dreams of having a life and pursuing an education are over. Some young mothers often realize that they cannot go to school, afford to pay daycare and maintain a household, so they give up their dreams of pursuing higher education. Through the [...]
Uganda has begun implementing a free universal secondary education (USE) programme in 700 public and 280 private schools in the first phase of a scheme aimed at making education accessible to all, officials said on Monday.
Education Minister Namirembe Bitamazire said her ministry had released 7.3 billion Ugandan shillings (US $4.2 million) for public and private [...]
As college-bound students and their families scramble for sources of funding to pay for the coming school year, a new free Internet-enabled resource helps them on their quest.
The just-released “Braintropolis Scholarships” digital book (also called electronic books or ebooks) gives readers a convenient treasury of informative and helpful scholarship-centric articles, covering everything from the
basics (e.g., [...]
This month, thousands of graduates of the Class of 2006 will don their caps and gowns, proudly walk across the stage and receive their diplomas. And many of those graduates won’t be the traditional image of 20-somethings preparing for their first full-time jobs or families.
They will be adults who have gone back to school, sometimes [...]
Students planning to attend Texas A&M International University in the fall should apply for financial aid before August to take advantage of the maximum range of financial assistance available, an administrator said.Laura Elizondo, director of financial aid, said TAMIU awarded more than $27 million in financial aid last year. She said students should apply before [...]
The Victoria College is offering summer programs to help out high school students who are not college-ready and middle school students who excel in class.
VC received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Board that will allow it to offer a program called Summer Scholars to upcoming 11th-graders.
“It is a four-week program, and what we [...]
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 40 percent of psychologists are self-employed, with clinical psychologists earning anywhere from $50,000 to over $100,000. The average salary for a psychology professor was $82, 554 for the academic year of 2005-2006, according to the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The demand for psychology [...]
Combine the rising costs with increased pressure on schools to offer the most accurate and complete loan option information to families and/or students, and it is no surprise that Senator Ted Kennedy’s Student Loan Sunshine Act, a bill that – if passed – will require all higher education institutions that accept federal funds to publicly [...]
There is so much information about college financing that it’s hard to choose which website or books to read. But, as one Chinese proverb goes, “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
In the case of paying for college, we’d want to ask Ben Kaplan. Kaplan amassed nearly $90,000 by winning more than two [...]