Students pursing a master’s or doctoral degree in a nursing specialty are invited to apply for the Thomas Candler Scholarship.
The $1,500 one-year scholarship honors the founding member of the Quad-Cities Area Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistant Alliance.
Applicants must have a grade point average of 3.0 or better, complete an application form, submit a 250-word […]

PreK-12 educators will be awarded $1 million in grants and scholarships through the 2008 A+ for Energy program, which recognizes innovative energy education programs in the classroom. Awardees will receive a cash grant of $5,000 or $10,000 to implement their program, a full scholarship to attend a three-day Energy Educator Training Conference, and a Science […]

A fund created to pay education costs of the children who lost a parent in a 2003 nightclub fire says it’s received scholarship commitments from several colleges and universities.
The Station Education Fund was created by Jeffrey and Michael Derderian. The brothers owned The Station nightclub in West Warwick, where a fire sparked by a […]

Bangkok - Students from six Southeast Asian countries are invited to apply for full scholarships for a master programme at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s leading varsity.
Initiated by Siam Cement Foundation, the scholarships are available to students who are citizens of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
Siam Cement Foundation is under auspicious of SCG Group, […]

A new state law restores just one of the many things stripped from Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps in 1942.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Thursday signed House Bill 2823, which allows internees or their survivors to request honorary degrees from the state universities where they were enrolled before being sent to internment camps.

An honorary degree — […]

Tennessee has 617,437 jobs because of international trade, and new World Trade Organization and free trade agreements since the early 1990s have helped the state take advantage of more open markets abroad, according to new research from Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies.
Trade and American Jobs is the first […]

Trinity Medical Center and the University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing are partnering to offer Internet-based advanced nursing degree courses.
Registered nurses practicing at Trinity can earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree by completing required nursing courses in a year.
The program offers flexibility for working students to complete their coursework without having to […]

Online educational resources now available at CareerSchoolDirectory.com help career-changers and other people interested in teaching take advantage of favorable job conditions (http://www.careerschooldirectory.com/). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job stability for teachers will vary from good to excellent over the next ten-year period. Ph.D. and career changer, Lynn Horton, has found satisfaction in […]

Western is reaping the rewards of taking a different perspective on learning online.
Western was awarded the 2006 Distinguished Credit Program Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education on Oct. 30.
The award was for its online communications disorders program, in partnership with the United Federation of Teachers’ speech chapter in New York.
The programs that are […]

A new trend to address non-traditional students’ need for education away from campus allows them to get their education online. The University of Tennessee offers several ways for students to work for degrees through this type of distance education.
“You’ll see online courses become more and more important over time,” said Brice Bible, chief information officer […]