New grant programs. Higher interest rates for student loans. A permanent tax exemption for 529 savings plans. In the college financing arena, the hottest trend in 2006 seemed to be change itself. A little tinkering here. Some sweeping overhauls there. What it all means depends on your personal circumstances. But no matter where you are […]

Funding Will Support Student-Led College Readiness and Retention Program
The YMCA of the USA has received a grant of $518,720 to initiate a YMCA Collegiate Achievers pilot program to improve college success rates for minority, low-income and first-generation college students by cultivating student leadership and strengthening connections among families, colleges and community-based organizations.
The grant was awarded […]

The Engineers Foundation of Ohio is offering more than $25,000 in academic scholarships to qualifying engineering students for the 2007-08 school year.
Each year, EFO offers the scholarships to engineering students in Ohio. Ten students received scholarships last year.
To qualify, applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents of Ohio and graduating high school seniors admitted to […]

Young Jeezy and his label Corporate Thugz Entertainment (CTE) are challenging Atlanta high school students to enter his essay contest, with the lucky winner receiving a $1,000 scholarship.
The Atlanta rapper announced the “What Inspires You” Essay contest, in honor of his upcoming sophomore release, The Inspiration. High school students in the metro Atlanta area […]

The Arkansas County Single Parent Scholarship Fund met to discuss the distribution of scholarships during 2006, conducting a letter writing campaign and the election of officers and board members at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the Community Room of the Arkansas County Bank in DeWitt.
“We had 11 scholarship recipients in the spring and 12 recipients […]

Crop & Food Research Maori Scholarship
Awarded to Neola Whalley
Neola Whalley (pronounced Wally) has been awarded a Crop & Food Research Maori Scholarship to assist with the development and implementation of best organic vegetable farming practices on the East Coast.
She is:
 Ngati Porou
 Spent periods of her life in the East Coast, mostly in Ruatoria where […]

Autodesk, Inc. today announced the Invest in Education Program, an initiative that connects companies with their local schools through the donation of software. Under this industry-leading program, when a company purchases five new seats of Autodesk Manufacturing software, they are able to grant a 25-seat classroom lab of Autodesk software to the post-secondary school of […]

Questions were raised in Parliament on Friday as to why Bermuda College President Charles Green had been seen on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia having his accommodation paid for by the college.
In a statement Bermuda College has stated the paid-for trip south was to allow Dr. Green and three other members of the college […]

Two former and two current Stanford students will attend Oxford University next fall on the world’s oldest international fellowship.
Ginger Turner, class of 2005, and seniors Jacob Lemieux and Julie Veroff were selected on Nov. 18 as three of the 32 American Rhodes Scholars, joining 2004 graduate Nadiya Figueroa, the Jamaican Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford next […]

EVEN when the Gujarat University plans to initiate ‘Study Abroad’ programme, the Foreign Students Bureau has stopped functioning over the years. The bureau set up by the University to help students from abroad to obtain an undergraduate or Post-graduate degree has seen very few registrations since 1998-99.
Vice-Chancellor of GU Parimal Trivedi says the reason for […]