UK:Scholarships At University of Westminster 2011

The deadline for scholarship applications for January 2011 is 1 November 2010 unless otherwise specified.

Alumni Scholarships:

These scholarships are gathered from income earned by the alumni affinity services. They are available to you if you are a graduate of any University of Westminster undergraduate degree and plan to proceed to a full-time Masters degree within the University.

Amount: £2,000 tuition fee waivers.

Eligibility: You must be a University of Westminster graduate progressing to a full-time Masters degree at the University.

Criteria: Academic excellence and financial need.

Full Fee Waiver Scholarships:

Amount: Full tuition fee waivers.

Eligibility: You must be an international student and hold an offer for a full-time Masters degree.

Criteria: Academic excellence, development potential and financial need.

Half Fee Waiver Scholarships:

Amount: 50% tuition fee waivers.

Eligibility: You must be an international student and hold an offer for a full-time Masters degree.

Criteria: Academic excellence, development potential and financial need.

MBA Scholarships:

Amount: 50% tuition fee waivers.

Eligibility: You must hold an offer for the full or part-time MBA degree.

Criteria: Academic excellence, career progression and financial need. Preference will be given to you if you work in the voluntary or public sector.

Deadline: 01 December 2010.

Westminster Business School (WBS) Part-Time Scholarships:

These scholarships are offered by Westminster Business School (WBS) to you if you are academically exceptional.

Amount: 50% tuition fee waivers.

Eligibility: You must hold an offer for any part-time Masters degree, excluding the MBA, within Westminster Business School.

Criteria: Academic excellence, career progression and financial need.

Deadline: 01 December 2010.

Westminster International Scholarships:

These generous awards are aimed at fully funding you if you are from a developing country and will study a full-time Masters degree at the University. Particular preference will be given to you if you can demonstrate how the knowledge you acquire from your studies will aid the development of your own country.

Amount: Full tuition fee waivers, accommodation, living expenses and flights to and from London.

Eligibility: You must be an international student from a developing country and hold an offer for a full-time Masters degree.

Criteria: Academic excellence, development potential and financial need.

Source:http://www.westminster.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/scholarships/january-2010-scholarships

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MMMF Educational Grants for Students of Developing Countries Studying in US and Canada

This scholarship is for the students from developing countries who are currently studying in the United States or Canada, the MMMF awards grants of approximetly $12,000 each; grants are not renewable. Every year, the MMMF also invites the recipients to Washington DC to participate in a three day Awards Program organized in their honor.

Follow the application procedure below.

Application Forms: available online from mid-September 2010.
Deadline for submitting completed applications: N/A
Results: ONLY successful applicants will be notified around May 1, 2011

Eligibility Criteria

A woman is eligible to apply for an MMMF grant if she meets all the following criteria:
1.has a record of service to women and children and a commitment to improve the lives of women and children in developing countries.
2.resides in the U.S. or Canada at the time she submits the application.
3.be enrolled (in residence) at an accredited U.S. or Canadian educational institution for the academic year 2010-2011, intend to be enrolled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
4.uses the grant toward the completion of her degree.
5.is a national of a lower or middle income country, as designated by MMMF Country Eligibility List.
6.is not a U.S. or Canadian citizen, permanent U.S. resident or Canadian Landed Immigrant.
7.intends to return to her country(or other developing country) within two years of receiving the MMMF grant.
8.demonstrates financial need.
9.is at least 25 years old by December 31, 2010 (Born before December 31, 1985).
10.is not related to a World Bank Group staff member or their spouse.

Source:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTSTAFF/WBFN/0,,contentMDK:21084882~isCURL:Y~pagePK:64156201~piPK:64156133~theSitePK:444098,00.html#Eligibility

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UK:Abdullah Al-Mubarak Research Fellowship in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The College hopes to elect not later than 1 December 2010 to an ABDULLAH AL-MUBARAK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, with tenure from 1 January 2011. Candidates should have recently completed or be about to complete a doctoral degree. The College welcomes applications from scholars with research interests in any aspect of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, including especially Gulf Studies. The tenure of the Fellowship will be for three years. The holder will be expected to do a limited amount of teaching for the College, but would require the permission of the Governing Body to undertake other paid work. The stipend currently ranges from £20,938 to £23,566 and is reviewed annually.

Applications, which are due by 24 September 2010, should be made online, where further particulars and relevant links are available. Informal enquiries can be made to the Senior Tutor’s Assistant, Sally Clowes.

Application Deadline: 24 September 2010

Source:
http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/about/academic-vacancies/#AM

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UK:Warwick Business School ESRC Case PhD Studentship 2011

One of the under-researched effects of higher education expansion in the last two decades has been increasing recruitment of graduates by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to sectors of economic activity and occupations to which previously, undergraduate study had not been a normal route. A key strategic objective of UK government higher education and training policies and investment during the last 25 years has been to raise workforce skills levels on the assumption that this would have economic and social benefits and indeed, was essential for economic growth, innovation and national productivity in an increasingly competitive global economy. An integral aspect of the expansion of higher education was to widen access to it from previously under-represented groups and extend opportunities to socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the population.

The assessment of how far these objectives have been met is widely debated and the current labour market provides a challenging research opportunity to investigate emerging trends. There continues to be considerable concern about the extent to which the integration of this increasing population of graduates into the labour market has reflected increased levels of national skill development and utilization and how far it has led to increasing graduate underemployment. This studentship provides the opportunity for a PhD student to conduct research that builds on the Futuretrack longitudinal survey of the cohort of students that applied through UCAS in 2005-6 to study full-time undergraduate courses at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). The survey is funded by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU), which is collaborating with the University of Warwick and the ESRC to offer this studentship. See http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/glmf for recent research undertaken by the institute and in particular, details of the Futuretrack survey, and www.hecsu.ac.uk for details about the sponsoring partner organisation and its related activities.

It is envisaged that this will be a mixed-methods project, to take advantage of the resources available to the student. In addition to targeted analysis of the micro data and qualitative responses recorded in the survey, the successful applicant would be encouraged to conduct follow-up investigations of graduates who had appropriate employment and were willing to participate, and possibly their employers. HECSU, which produces the annual What do graduates Do? analyses of first destination statistics, has an extensive database of graduate recruiters and has conducted surveys of graduates from previous cohorts during their early careers, and it may be possible for the PhD student to draw on to identify suitable case study examples of organizations or potential graduate interviewees. The studentship would be attached to the IER Futuretrack Research team, directed by Professor Kate Purcell on a project agreed with HECSU and drawing on the expertise and resources of IER, WBS and HECSU.

Application Deadline: Monday 04 October 2010

Source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/deptschol/socscience

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Erasmus Mundus:MSc in Optics in Science and Technology– OpSciTech for International Students

MSc OpSciTech is a unique European Master’s Course providing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of the field of Optics, from upstream scientific aspects to engineering and applications in major sectors of the economy. Offered by six top-level academic partners in five countries, it receives financial support from the European Commission and is supported by major industries such as Alcatel-Lucent, Philips, Saint-Gobain, Thales, Zeiss or ASML.

The OpSciTech partners are:

· Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

· Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

· Imperial College London, The United Kingdom

· Université Paris-Sud 11 and Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Paris, France

· Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Optics: the branch of physics and engineering which describes the behaviour of light and its interaction with matter and utilizes it.
More precisely, “Optics is the field of science and engineering encompassing the physical phenomena and technologies associated with the generation transmission manipulation detection and utilization of light” (ref.: “Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century”, National Academy Press 1998 ISDN 1-800-624-6242?…)

Applications: biosciences to medical technology, quantum physics to telecommunications, optical systems to mechatronics and image analysis.
Optics has been around for many centuries and will remain at the heart of science and technology for century to come.
MSc OpSciTech is your opportunity to be part of the vibrant community of optics scientists and engineers.

Erasmus Mundus grants for non-EU students (“Category A” from 2010-11)
OpSciTech is one of the Master Courses selected by the prestigious Erasmus Mundus framework of the European Commission through which students from non-European Uni0n countries are eligible for two-year grants of € 24,000 per year. For 2010/2011, a total of 10 Erasmus Mundus grants are available for these students (“general category”) and additionally 1 or 2 specifically for students from “special windows”, namely Western Balkans and Turkey. EM grants are awarded on the basis of merit by the European Commission under proposition of the OpSciTech board.

Contact:
Erasmus Mundus Master programme
Optics in Science & Technology
Coordinator’s Office
INSTITUT D’OPTIQUE Graduate School
Campus Polytechnique-RD 128, 2 av. Augustin Fresnel
91127 Palaiseau Cedex FRANCE
Phone : +33 1 64 53 32 08

Application Deadline: 02 January 2011


Read more:http://www.master-optics.eu/index.php?id=5

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USA:Niehaus Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Regional Political Economy

This fellows program is targeted at developing a new generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Center invites candidates with a background in economics, political science, contemporary history, sociology, law, business, and other disciplines bearing on the study of markets, politics, and economic development, focusing on the regions of the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America to apply. Scholarly work should explore the ways in which the politics within and between a set of countries intersect with natural resource endowments, market conditions, technological and physical infrastructure, and cultural biases to explain existing patterns of economic development and to promote higher levels of development more effectively. Selected candidates will be required to be in residence for the duration of the fellowship (September 1, 2011-July 1, 2012

Applicants are required to hold a PhD in one of the above mentioned disciplines.

To apply, please provide the following:

* Cover letter explaining the candidate’s scholarly career, prospective or actual doctoral defense date, and academic interests;
* Current C.V. including publications;
* 2000-word description of the proposed research project, including its specific objectives, importance, and research design;
* One writing sample (limit of 100 pages);
* Contact information for three references.

Candidates who hold positions at academic institutions will also be required to submit:

* Statement indicating if a sabbatical leave is available
* Home institution policy with regard to sabbatical pay
* History of “sabbatical leaves” over the past seven years
* A confidential statement indicating salary for the current academic year (September 2010-July 1, 2011)

Salary – Rank and salary will be contingent on qualifications. Fellows will receive applicable Princeton University benefits, a moving allowance, and $2,500 research fund.

For more information about the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance fellowship program, please contact:
Patricia Trinity, Assistant Director at ptrinity@princeton.edu.


Read more: http://www.princeton.edu/~pcglobal/postdoc.html

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Japan:INPEX Scholarship 2011 for International Students

INPEX Scholarship Foundation was established in tokyo, Japan as Non-profit organization under the permission of minister of education, based on the fund offered by INPEX Corporation (which was named Indonesia Petroleum Co. at that time), a Tokyo based oil exploration company, to promote mutual understanding, friendship and goodwill by exchange of education, art and natural sciences through the scholarship program between Indonesia and Japan. The main program is to offer scholarship awards to Indonesian youths, who have graduated from universities in Indonesia and live in Indonesia, and who wish to study the subjects in the fields of natural science in the Graduate level

Deadline: 15 November 201o

School of Universities in Japan for Master’s Degree, and to offer scholarship awards to Japanese youths also who wish to study in Indonesia.

Requirements

* Those who have the nationality of the Republic of Indonesia and have studied the course of Natural Science in the prestigious national universities in Indonesia more than 16 years of of school education, and not more than 30 years of age when application is submitted, having “SARJANA” degree
* Those who have the aim to study the course of natural science in the master’s degree course of universities in Japan, and were permitted or are expected to be permitted to enter university
* Those who have excellent result of school record, (cumulative GPA more than 3), and are in good health
* Those who have been permitted to get scholarship from foundation by their belonging institutes, universities, or companies.
* Those who have interest in the friendly relations between the Republic of Indonesia and Japan are prepared to contribute the promotion of such relations
* Those who have not been awarded other scholarships in Japan

Read more: http://www.inpex-s.com/application.html

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