Three years ago, William Sheane turned down a place at King’s College London to study maths and management. Instead, Sheane, originally from Oxford, “threw in” an application to the University of Sydney. “I was over the UK student lifestyle of getting smashed,” he says. “I’d spent five years working in bars, beaches and diving centres. […]
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But honesty’s worth a scholarship
They’re just 19 years old, three college students who have their own education to pay for.
Yet, they have started an annual scholarship to honor graduates from their former high school because, they said, it’s the right thing to do.
James Joseph, John Simpkins and Brian Mann are longtime friends, having gone through […]
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Ignoring the governor’s veto of last year, a legislator has again introduced the California Dream Act, which would provide state financial aid for students who enter into the U.S. illegally.
Authored by state Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, the bill would give foreign students access to the state’s Cal Grant program, scholarship programs they are not […]
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University of Wisconsin-Madison has long been an attractive target for elite schools like Harvard and Stanford looking for top academics. But now other public universities are among the faculty poachers, and school administrators are worried.
Dozens of professors have left in the past two years, and Chancellor John Wiley said a growing number are going to […]
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest charitable fund, gave $105 million to create a health-research institute at the University of Washington.
The institute will conduct evaluations of health programs worldwide, the Seattle-based Gates Foundation said today in a statement on its Web site. The university’s main campus is also in Seattle.
The new […]
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But honesty’s worth a scholarship
They’re just 19 years old, three college students who have their own education to pay for.Yet, they have started an annual scholarship to honor graduates from their former high school because, they said, it’s the right thing to do.James Joseph, John Simpkins and Brian Mann are longtime friends, having gone through […]
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Ignoring the governor’s veto of last year, a legislator has again introduced the California Dream Act, which would provide state financial aid for students who enter into the U.S. illegally.
Authored by state Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, the bill would give foreign students access to the state’s Cal Grant program, scholarship programs they are not […]
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