Sentences with phrase «offer scholarships for students»

For example, local businesses and civic leaders could offer scholarships for students to attend existing camps and summer programs that would otherwise be out of reach because of cost or transportation issues.

Last week, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio became the first university to announce it would offer scholarships for students who can play it well starting in the fall of 2018.

Not exact matches

Robert Morris University's scholarships offer room and board for highly skilled gamers, similar to how student - athletes with high potential are currently recruited for basketball or football.

Both federal and private student loans offer a way to pay for education costs when savings, scholarships, and other forms of funding are not available, but they differ in several ways.Federal student loans...

This year is the fifth anniversary of Rum & Rhythm as a benefit for the CTO Foundation, a charity which offers scholarships and study grants to Caribbean students pursuing studies in tourism and hospitality and related subjects.

Many of them arrive with scholarship offers for students who could not get to college any other way.

High school sports are valuable not because of newspaper stories or scholarship offers or the number of students who watch from the pool deck, but rather for what the process of playing at a competitive level teaches those who compete.

For example, Division III programs (typically smaller schools) do not provide athletic scholarships, but they offer grants and other academic aid to qualified student - athletes.

Would make students without lawful immigration status eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship, the Tuition Assistance Program, the Enhanced Tuition Award, and other State financial assistance programs offered to college students who are New York State residents.

Entrants will design a mobile app or website that provides information about Cuomo's proposal, the Excelsior Scholarship, that would offer free tuition to CUNY and SUNY schools for students whose families earn no more than $ 125,000 annually.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what we need.

While the state's Excelsior Scholarships provide eligible students free tuition to all state schools, Cuomo also offered the Enhanced Tuition program for state residents attending private colleges.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

Each year the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) offers up to 25 scholarships to SME student members to recognize academic excellence in these fields.

Local industry supported this new approach from the beginning with scholarships for foreign students, offers of integrated industrial training, and awards for students with the best results.

For Ph.D. students who have already initiated some form of joint collaborative effort with a research group or laboratory in France, the French government offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs research scholarships that provide financial support for Canadian Ph.D. students to live and work in France for up to a yeFor Ph.D. students who have already initiated some form of joint collaborative effort with a research group or laboratory in France, the French government offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs research scholarships that provide financial support for Canadian Ph.D. students to live and work in France for up to a yefor Canadian Ph.D. students to live and work in France for up to a yefor up to a year.

«The Australian Research Council's Federation Fellowships scheme, for example, encourages Australian researchers working overseas to bring their skills back into Australian science, while scholarships offered under the Endeavour Programme allow high achieving students from around the world to undertake study or research in Australia.»

The Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung Foundation has generously provided the financing to make this possible, offering a scholarship for up to 1 year for selected Ph.D. students (see box).

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR, a sponsor of Next Wave Singapore) offers the National Science Scholarships (NSS) to Singapore's top students to study either at local or selected overseas universities.

Universities and industry partners also offer funded postgraduate positions and a range of bursaries, scholarships, and awards (mostly for Ph.D. students).

Offered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, the Global Health Scholarship Program awards full - tuition scholarships to Master of Public Health or Master of Health Science students with extraordinary academic achievements and potential to contribute to the field of global health.

The Swedish Institute offers several scholarship programmes for international students studying at Bachelor's, Master's, PhD and post-doctoral levels.

The Swedish Institute offers scholarships to international students applying for studies in Sweden at Bachelor's, Master's, PhD and post-doctoral levels.

The extensive DAAD scholarship database for foreign students, graduates and academics offers a wide range of scholarships and additional information to help them with their application.

TSRC offers as many as 20 scholarships in the form of reduced registration fees (50 %) for graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.

You can not apply for a scholarship at Aalborg University, but we offer a limited number of Tuition Waivers for non - EU / EEA students each year.

Indeed, the school's new Kings Cross campus features a lecture theatre sponsored by LVMH, which will also fund a scholarship program for CSM students and offer work experience internships.

January 9, 2013 • Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families.

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

The increases, between $ 800 and $ 1,550 per student, will bring scholarships more in line with the amounts offered by the EdChoice Program, and high school students will also now be eligible to apply for the Cleveland Scholarship Program.

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private plStudents with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private plstudents since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private plstudents to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

Then moving to IIE (International Institute of Education) to work as program specialist where he was responsible for delivering training to specific number of universities» students who have been offered a scholarship by IIE to study in private universities in Egypt about career development and social entrepreneurship.

A handful of states are offering students scholarship money for college if they graduate from high school early.

The Greenville, Tennessee — based Niswonger Foundation, for example, offers the most talented college - bound students full scholarships to postsecondary schools of their choosing in exchange for commitment to return to and work in their often - rural eastern Tennessee communities for the same number of years they receive the scholarship.

For the 1998 - 99 school year, PACE offered scholarships to 515 students who were in public schools and to 250 who were already enrolled in private schools in the Dayton metropolitan area.

They don't know, for example, that schools like Stanford will offer full scholarships to students from a household income below $ 125,000 and that schools like Amherst have the highest graduation rates for low - income and minority students in the country.

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Educationfound that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

ESEA offered new grants to districts serving low - income students, federal grants for textbooks and library books, funding for special education centers, and scholarships for low - income college students.

The DC Opportunity Scholarship program offers a maximum of $ 8,381 per child for students in K - 8, and unless it is both reauthorized and redesigned one can not help but wonder if there will be many private schools for these students to attend in the years ahead.

Comparing the college enrollment rates of students who were offered a scholarship to attend private school through the OSP lottery with those of students who applied for but did not win a scholarship, we find that students who won the scholarship were neither more nor less likely to enroll in college than students who did not win the scholarship.

Florida provides a tax credit on corporate income taxes and insurance premium taxes for donations to scholarship - funding organizations (SFOs), nonprofits that provide scholarships for low - income students and children in foster care and offer funds for transportation to public schools outside a child's district.

Since a lottery was being conducted, it would be possible to compare outcomes for two randomly selected groups of students: those who won the lottery and were offered a scholarship compared to those who applied for a scholarship but did not win the lottery.

Next year, 133 schools in 33 school districts and 30 parishes will participate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which offers students a way out of schools that do not work for them.

Yet Florida continues to offer vouchers for disabled students who want to attend private schools and awards tax credits to corporations that donate to private - school scholarship programs.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Education found that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.