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The missions the foundations’ original donors champion during their lifetimes can become outdated after they’ve died.
International scholarships make up most of the foreign aid to higher education in conflict-affected countries.
After a lengthy litigation process, the NCAA will provide US$2.8 billion in back pay, while allowing schools to directly pay athletes for the first time.
Donor-imposed restrictions keep colleges and universities from freely determining how and when to spend a large share of their endowment funds.
Ending tuition might not result in more doctors serving the communities that need them most without further steps.
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
A college administrator offers insights into the rocky rollout of the Department of Education’s supposedly ‘simplified’ financial aid form.
In recent years, the Chinese government has used scholarships to shape the views of Indonesian Muslim students on controversial issues such as the mistreatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
The world of rap music has no shortage of artists who turned their backs on formal education only to become some of education’s biggest benefactors.
Over the past 30 years China has turned into a major study-abroad hotspot for thousands of African students.
African countries need to start producing and developing their own medical devices. Suitably skilled biomedical engineers are needed for this sort of innovation to take root.
If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Mentoring programs can be enormously valuable for students, both in terms of their academic performance and their professional development.
We have scholarships specifically targeted at women to redress the gender imbalance in STEM subjects. So why can’t we do the same for men in primary education?
The University of Sydney’s Vice-Chancellor, Michael Spence, presumably achieved his political aim by announcing that his university could offer scholarships to almost a third of its students if fees were…
In the 2014-15 budget, the government announced a new Commonwealth Scholarship scheme. This will require higher education institutions to commit $1 in every $5 of additional revenue to the scheme “to support…
Alongside higher fees and real interest rates on student debts, this year’s federal budget announced 20% of universities’ additional revenue will go towards equity scholarships. But will this measure increase…
Please answer all questions. 1. Who’s your daddy? _______ Thank you for your application. We will take a cursory glance at your folio and inform you of our decision. This is from a fake application form…
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