New Scholarship from Africa High Achiever Foundation

Be aggressive and accomplish your ambitions!

5 scholarships of £2,000 appear charge fees 

The University of Nottingham Foundation courses accommodate an access avenue to called degrees in arts, business, engineering, science and amusing sciences and are an befalling to accretion the abilities and adeptness bare to undertake a bachelors amount while belief at a world-class university 

The areas of abstraction below: 

• Engineering Foundation Year
• Science Foundation Year
• Foundation Certificate in Business
• Foundation Certificate in Arts and Amusing Sciences 

Eligibility:

You can administer for this scholarship if yo:

• are a civic of (or assuredly domiciled in) Africa AND
• are classed as an across apprentice for fee purposes AND
• already authority an action to alpha a full-time Foundation programme at Nottingham in September 2012 

Dead Line:

The closing date for applications is 29th June 2012 – 12 mid-day (UK time) 

Our Foundation courses

We action four Scholarship programmes: the Foundation Certificate in Arts and Amusing Sciences, the Foundation Certificate in Business, the Engineering Foundation Year and the Science Foundation Year.

The Foundation Certificates in Arts and Amusing Sciences and in Business are advised for all-e

mbracing acceptance with top bookish adeptness who charge an added year’s abstraction to adapt them for a bachelors amount in an arts, business or amusing sciences subject, either at The University of Nottingham or addition university. You will accommodated and accomplish constant contacts and will account from a absolute abutment network. 

The Engineering and Science Foundation Year programmes are accessible to UK and all-embracing acceptance whose academy abrogation abilities do not accommodated the requirements for undergraduate programmes in science, including computer science, and engineering. 

They accept been accurately advised to accommodate you with the best accessible accomplishments for access into our advanced ambit of undergraduate amount programmes. Provided you auspiciously complete the foundation year at Nottingham and canyon the accordant modules at the appropriate standard, you will be able to advance into year one of your called amount subject. 

For added advice about our Foundation courses amuse see our scholarship website 

Apply Now 

We aim to acquaint applicants of the aftereffect aural 6 weeks of the closing date 

For More Information Please Visit : http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/internationalstudents/scholarshipsfeesfinance/scholarships/scholarshipdetails/foundation-africa.aspx

International Office 

C Floor, All-embracing House

The University of Nottingham

Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road

Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK 

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5247

fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5155

email us

New Scholarship Developing Solutions For International Students

Deadline: 16th May 2012 – 12 mid-day (UK time)

Description:

The Developing Solutions Scholarships are advised for all-embracing acceptance who wish to abstraction in the University of Nottingham in UK and accomplish a aberration to the development of their home country. 

Do you wish to accomplish a aberration to the development of your home country?

105 scholarships – 30 x 100% charge fee and 75 x 50% appear charge fee

Eligibility:

You can administer for this scholarship if you: 

• are from Africa, India or one of the countries of the Commonwealth listed aloft AND
• are classed as an across apprentice for fee purposes AND
• already authority an action to alpha a full-time Masters amount programme (including MRes) at Nottingham in September 2012 in one of the areas of abstraction listed above. 

The areas of abstraction below: 

• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
• Faculty of Science
• School of Geography – courses accompanying to the breadth of Environment
• Institute for Science & Society – courses accompanying to the breadth of Science
• Institute of Work, Health & Organisations – courses accompanying to the breadth of Health
• Business School – courses affiliated to Operations Management 

Target :

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Montserrat, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, St Helena, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa 

Apply Now

We aim to acquaint applicants of the aftereffect aural 6 weeks of the closing date

International Office:

C Floor, All-embracing House

The University of Nottingham

Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road

Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5247

fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5155

Official Website : http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/internationalstudents/scholarshipsfeesfinance/scholarships/scholarshipdetails/dev-sol-masters.aspx

New Scholarship Professor Terry Sturmin in Australian and New Zealand

The Professor Terry Sturm Scholarship in New Zealand and Australian Abstract was accustomed in 2009. The Scholarship has been fabricated accessible through the generosity of the ancestors of Professor Terry Sturm and the Faculty of Arts.

To animate analysis in New Zealand and Australian Abstract at The University of Auckland.

Deadline

11/05/2012 31/03/2013 31 March anniversary year.

The closing date has been continued to 11 May for 2012.

Eligiblity

 The Scholarship will be awarded to a apprentice who has paid the fees, or abiding to pay the fees, for full-time enrolment in a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, Master of Arts or PhD in English, with a specialisation in New Zealand or Australian literature.

The base of alternative will be bookish merit.

Purpose

To animate analysis in New Zealand and Australian Abstract at The University of Auckland.

History 

The Professor Terry Sturm Scholarship in New Zealand and Australian Abstract was accustomed in 2009. The Scholarship has been fabricated accessible through the generosity of the ancestors of Professor Terry Sturm and the Faculty of Arts. 

Number of awards

One

Value

$1,000

Tenure

1 year. 

How to apply

Application by anatomy is fabricated to the Scholarships Office on the continued closing date of 11 May 2012 in the year of the award.

Regulations and appliance anatomy (PDF version)

Application anatomy (Word version) 

Decision makers

The Scholarship will be awarded aloft the advocacy of a board absolute the Dean of Arts (or nominee), the Head of English (or nominee) and at atomic one added affiliate of the Department of English's Scholarships Committee. 

How and if do acceptance apprentice of the decision?

Approximately six weeks afterwards closing date by letter. 

Additional information

The Scholarship Office
The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92 019
Auckland
New Zealand

Phone: (09) 373 7599 -Ext: 87494
Email: scholarships@auckland.ac.nz 

For More Information Visit:

http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/cs-upcoming-closing-dates?form=details&detailCode=500399

Why Study in Russian?

Twenty years ago in the United States the acknowledgment to this catechism was obvious. With the United States and the Soviet Union anointed as the two afraid super-powers, account belief about Russian-related capacity were on the front-page every day. The government was accommodating to abutment analysis and acquirements accompanying to our a lot of feared enemy, and acceptance were absorbed by the Soviet enigma. 

When it came to addition out what to do with a hard-won ability of Russian, however, the bearings was added complicated. Of course, there were a assertive amount of jobs accessible at Government agencies and in universities and colleges, but in absoluteness affairs for authoritative use of Russian in a lot of able contexts were acutely limited.

Russian is spoken: 

• by millions of humans from Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean;
• by those absorbed in all-embracing diplomacy and business opportunities in the East;
• by those absorbed in science and mathematics area Russia still leads;
• by those absent to analyze the Russian ancestry in this country, decidedly in Brooklyn and the neighbourhood of Brighton Beach. 

Top Ten Reasons to Abstraction Russia & Russian 

1. Russia is the world's better country. Stretching beyond two continents, it is about bifold the admeasurement of either the United States or China. Found aural that huge acreage accumulation is a advanced assortment of peoples, religions, acute and geographic conditions.
2. There are an estimated 279 actor speakers (native additional nonnative) of Russian. That puts Russian in fifth abode on the account of languages announced by the a lot of people, abaft abandoned Mandarin, English, Hindi, and Spanish. (Source: The Apple Almanac and Book of Facts, 1998).
3. Russia is home to some of the worldâs best composers such as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, etc.
4. Russia is currently affianced in a admirable agreement in political, social, and bread-and-butter transformation. How it fares will advice actuate the appearance of the 21st aeon not abandoned for Russia but for the apple as a whole.
5. Lots of Americans accept apparent the Eiffel Tower, visited Buckingham Palace, and toured the Vatican. A lot beneath accept strolled aural the Kremlin walls, accomplished the "white nights" of St. Petersburg, or spent an afternoon sampling the treasures of the Hermitage. Belief Russia will not abandoned accord you the alibi and befalling to appoint in such adventures, but will assure that you added absolutely accept and acknowledge them if you do.
6. Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Rasputin, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, etc. Can you anticipate of a added arresting set of actual characters?
7. Russia is in bread-and-butter crisis. Yet its all-inclusive assets and awful accomplished citizenry advance that it is a country of abundant bread-and-butter potential. Boom or bust, the admeasurement of Russia abandoned suggests that its bread-and-butter advance will accept all-around repercussions.
8. Since the end of the Cold War, the amount of humans belief Russian in the US has declined. That may beggarly beneath antagonism in the job bazaar for those who do abstraction and adept the language-- abnormally if the bread-and-butter awakening that some apprehend to see in Russia does in actuality materialize.
9. Russia charcoal a nuclear superpower armed with bags of weapons of accumulation destruction. For this acumen alone, the appearance of the Russian government and its adeptness to exercise command and ascendancy over its nuclear armory is a primary affair (perhaps the primary concern) of US civic aegis policy.
10. Some of the world's a lot of acclaimed authors are Russian: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin, Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Pasternak, etc. Need one say more? 

Russian in Your Career

While acquirements Russian brings claimed and bookish satisfaction, acceptance are aswell understandably anxious about career opportunities. Is Russian a bankable skill? The acknowledgment is absolutely yes, but in an added circuitous apple area demands are consistently changing, it is sometimes difficult to accumulate beside of opportunities. Teaching acclimated to accommodate application for the better amount of Russian accent majors, and government was the next a lot of advantageous antecedent of jobs. 

Here are the application pages for the CIA, the FBI, The United States State Department and the NSA. Aswell analysis out USA Jobs, run by the Office of Personnel Management.

Today, however, Russian majors accept the befalling to use their accent and ability abilities in a ample array of settings in both Russia and the United States. Acceptance go on to plan in business as banking and action analysts for American and Russian companies They plan for non-governmental organizations, for publishing houses, for the book and advertisement media. They advise in Russian schools, and argue in fields such as marketing, advertising, aerospace, and computer engineering. And, of course, some abide to go on to do added acceptable plan as agents in universities and schools, and as advisers of the United States government. 

Wherever they work, however, they acquisition that it was a absolute ability of the Russian accent that opened doors for them, doors that would accept remained always bankrupt after accent abilities and the ability of ability that accompanies them. 

Russian in the World

There are about 5,000 languages acclimated throughout the apple today, of which some 130 are announced by added than one actor humans and seventy by added than 5 million. Russian is a affiliate of the Indo-European ancestors of languages, which includes English and the added Germanic languages, the Romance languages and added languages of Europe, the average East, and the Asian subcontinent. Russian belongs to the Slavic accumulation of languages, which is disconnected into West Slavic (Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Sorbian), South Slavic (Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian), and East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian). 

For More Information Visit :  http://www.russnet.org/why

New Department of Philosophy Masters Scholarship

Closing date: 30/05/2012
01/12/2012

Value of Award: $5,000

No. of awards: Up to 4

Tenure:Up to 12 months.

Selection process: 

• Scholarships will be awarded to adept candidates who accept paid the fees, or abiding to pay the fees, for full-time enrolment in the amount of Adept of Arts by apriorism in Philosophy.
• The base of alternative will be bookish arete and potential.

How do acceptance apply?
Applications by way of a anatomy and CV abutting with the Scholarships Office on 30 May in the year of the accolade and 1 December in the year above-mentioned the year of the award.

Regulations and appliance anatomy (PDF version)
Application anatomy (Word version)

Decision makers

The Scholarships will be awarded by the University of Auckland Council aloft the advocacy of a Alternative Committee absolute the Dean of the Faculty of Arts (or nominee), the Head of the Department of Philosophy (or nominee) and three bookish agents associates of The University of Auckland Department of Philosophy.

How and if do acceptance apprentice of the decision?
Approximately six weeks afterwards closing date by letter.

Additional Information
For guidelines, appliance forms and added advice about this accolade contact:
The Scholarship Office
The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92 019
Auckland
New Zealand

Phone: (09) 373 7599 -Ext: 87494
Email: scholarships@auckland.ac.nz

Website: Official Scholarship Site : http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/cs-upcoming-closing-dates?form=details&detailCode=500339

New University Birmingham Scholarship International Posgraduate

For over a aeon the University of Birmingham has been recognised as one of the world’s arch universities for the superior of our teaching and research. We allure acceptance of the accomplished calibre from about the apple and accept been affable all-embracing acceptance to the University for over 100 years. To accolade outstanding achievement, we are admiring to action a amount of all-embracing postgraduate scholarships.

What we are offering 

The University of Birmingham is alms All-embracing Postgraduate Scholarships account £10,000 appear the amount of charge fees for a one year masters course. These awards are for charge fees alone and cannot be acclimated for maintenance/living costs. 

Find out added about the boilerplate amount of active for a apprentice belief at Birmingham

Who we are searching for 

Applicants accept to accept an accomplished bookish background. Due to the akin of antagonism for these scholarships, alone applicants with a 1st chic bachelors amount will be considered. 

Applicants accept to aswell authenticate arete in an breadth of their life. This ability be outstanding bookish achievement, aberrant accomplishment in added curricular activities (such as sport, music, managing contest or societies) or cogent accomplishment acquired either in their alive activity or through volunteering and 

 account to others. 

Applicants accept to aswell outline the addition they will accomplish to the University of Birmingham as a apprentice and what they apprehend to accretion from belief here.

Eligibility 

In adjustment to administer candidates must: 

• be across for fee purposes
• accept activated for a one year abounding time masters advance and accept been issued with a apprentice id number
• not be in cancellation of a abounding fee scholarship from any added source
• accept fabricated able banking accouterment to abstraction in the UK 

Deadline

The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 1 June 2012. Applications will not be accepted if they are submitted to the University after this date. 

How to apply

You accept to accept fabricated an appliance to abstraction at the University of Birmingham afore appointment a scholarship application. 

Apply for the All-embracing Postgraduate Scholarship

New Scholarship Information AP-Google Journalism

The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship Affairs fosters new journalism abilities in undergraduate and alum acceptance developing projects at the circle of journalism and technology.

Our goal: To flash a ablaze on the hidden treasures in schools above the country — the digital-minded journalists who will be the approaching of our industry. 

The affairs is targeted to alone acceptance creating avant-garde projects that added the ethics of agenda journalism. A key ambition is to advance geographic, gender and indigenous diversity, with an accent on rural and burghal areas. 

Have you created aboriginal journalistic agreeable with computer science elements? Are you cerebration up new means to acquaint a adventure with technology? Are you a "techie" who knows how to assemble a journalistic adventure through multimedia? We're searching for acceptance advancing studies at the capital of journalism, computer sciences and new media. If you're on the acid bend of agenda media above the classroom, this scholarship is for you! 

Students from assorted backgrounds, as able-bodied as those accessory rural-area institutions, are acerb encouraged to apply. A called amount of scholarships will be based on banking need. 

Award

Six acceptance will accept scholarship awards of $20,000 anniversary for the 2013-14 bookish year. Half of the accolade will be accepted in the aboriginal semester. The butt will be awarded in the additional division aloft affidavit of action angle amend and aliment of a 3.0 GPA. Awards will be fabricated payable to the post-secondary institution.

Scholarship winners aswell will accept a one-year ONA associates and acceptance at ONA's anniversary conference. 

Deadline

The appliance borderline for the 2013-14 bookish year is Feb. 8, 2013. 

This appliance has three parts. Please apprehend anxiously afore you complete the application: 

• Applications and all submitted abstracts accept to be in English.
• The appliance requires that you accommodate alive links to abstracts you accept uploaded elsewhere. For example, accessible links appliance Google Docs, Dropbox, WordPress, or even your own website would work.
• Please accept all of the uploaded advice in area 3 able in advance: letter of recommendation, transcript, and account of unmet banking charge (if applicable).
• Analysis the Printable Appliance Hotlink afore you begin. Please agenda the printable appliance hotlink is alone a analysis copy. All applications accept to be submitted online. No exceptions. 

SECTION 1 – CONTACT INFORMATION 

Provide name, date of birth, address, email, buzz number, college/university information, and added accordant data.

SECTION 2 – MULTIMEDIA 

I. PERSONAL STATEMENT PRESENTATION or COVER LETTER

Tell us about yourself in a claimed account or a multimedia presentation. Be creative. We’re searching for the different means you can acquaint your own adventure and why you should be called for this scholarship. 

Word length: 200 words or fewer; or multimedia presentation no best than one minute. 

II. RESUME

Provide a web hotlink to a accepted resume no best than one page. 

III. PHOTO

Provide a web hotlink to a contempo headshot. 

IV. SOCIAL NETWORKS & PORTFOLIO OF WORK

List all accepted amusing arrangement profiles and three samples of multimedia plan demonstrating action in journalism and/or computer science. 

V. PROJECT/CONCEPT

Have you created aboriginal journalistic agreeable with computer science elements? Do you accept an abstraction to advance new means of cogent a adventure with technology? The scholarship board is searching for projects or concepts that appearance addition and creativity. Applicant should explain how your action moves agenda journalism advanced or provides admired acquaint or outcomes. 

Here are just a few ideas: 

• Abstracts visualization
• Abstracts mining
• Mobile accessories and applications
• 3-D storytelling
• Agenda ethics
• Crowdsourcing
• HTML5
• Micro computers 

Length: 500 words or fewer; or multimedia presentation no best than three minutes.

SECTION 3 – UPLOAD MATERIALS 

I. TESTIMONIAL/LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

Include one letter of advocacy from adviser or employer acknowledging apprentice as a standout agenda announcer of the approaching admirable of this scholarship.

The letter accept to affirm the applicant’s description of his/her role in the project, if possible.

Length: One typed page

File admeasurement absolute for upload: 500 KB 

II. TRANSCRIPTS

Provide scanned copies of your a lot of contempo official transcript.

File admeasurement absolute for upload: 500 KB 

III. STATEMENT OF UNMET FINANCIAL NEED (Optional)

A called amount of scholarships will be based on banking need. Applicants who ambition to be advised for banking charge accept to complete the Account of Unmet Banking Charge Form and upload to his or her application. 

File admeasurement absolute for upload: 500 KB

Application

Now that you’ve advised everything, you’re accessible to apply. To alpha the online application, bang below.

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