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A nation's worth is expressed in terms of its literacy rate. The higher the numbers are, the greater the prospects of modernization, urban civilization, secularism, and rights reserved to each individual is acted upon. Generalizing the need to provide education to every civilian residing in a nation is his/her right, but the societal prejudice towards the lower economic strata has not gone unnoticed. Therefore, lakhs of children who want to avail their basic rights such as education are unable to do so due to the lack of adequate resources, awareness, accessibility, circumstantial restrictions, and low economic providence or financial instability. Due to this, the majority of the people lack decent qualifications, hence, remaining unemployed throughout causing there to be a high unemployment rate as well. To counter this intensity of incompetence, the Government of India has been taking numerous steps to facilitate the procurement of education. This is where financial schemes come into play encompassing various sectors, from UGC to AICTE, to scholarships/fellowships, and bank loans making it feasible for the underprivileged to not fall short. Apart from this, the older generation is found to be struggling with post-retirement benefits which are being catered to with additional government schemes and grants to provide them with a better life

Tesis CEINDO, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Programa de doctorado "Derecho y Economía". Leída el 29 de mayo del 2023 La presente investigación, bajo una metodología que incluye modelos Mincerianos y análisis multivariados, busca determinar los retornos salariales relacionados a la culminación de la educación superior, así como los factores que incrementan la probabilidad de perder el beneficio de la beca antes de egresar de la universidad. Los resultados muestran que culminar la educación superior universitaria representa retornos mayores en aproximadamente un 10% respecto a quienes no la culminan; además, existen variables instrumentales que incrementan la probabilidad de un mayor retorno, tales como: ser hombre, residir en la capital Lima, vivir en área urbana, realizar actividades económicas vinculadas a la minería o la construcción, haber cursado estudios en universidades de calidad, universidades privadas y que estudiaron carreras relacionadas con la ingeniería, industria y construcción. Por otro lado, al analizar los resultados de Beca 18 como el programa de financiamiento de la educación superior más importante en el Perú, se encontraron ocho factores que incrementan la mayor probabilidad de pérdida del beneficio: lugar de procedencia del becario, lengua materna, edad en que el becario recibió la beca, cohorte según año de otorgamiento de la beca, modalidad de beca, carrera, lugar de estudio y tipo de gestión de la universidad. This research, under a methodology that includes Mincerian models and multivariate analysis, seeks to determine the wage returns related to the completion of higher education, as well as the factors that increase the probability of losing the scholarship benefit before graduating from university. The results show that completing higher education represents returns that are approximately 10% higher than those who do not complete it; in addition, there are instrumental variables that increase the probability of a higher return, such as: being male, residing in the capital Lima, living in an urban area, performing economic activities related to mining or construction, having studied in quality universities, private universities, and having studied careers related to engineering, industry and construction. On the other hand, when analyzing the results of Beca 18 as the most important higher education financing program in Peru, eight factors were found that increase the greater probability of losing the benefit: place of origin of the scholarship recipient, mother tongue, age at which the scholarship recipient received the scholarship, cohort according to the year the scholarship was granted, scholarship modality, career, place of study and type of university management.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of a scholarship scheme to support mental health workforce development. Design/methodology/approach Nursing and allied health recipients (n = 72) of a scholarship for postgraduate mental health study provided quantitative and qualitative feedback via an online survey. Findings Benefits of the scholarship scheme include helping to overcome financial barriers to accessing higher education, increased motivation to study, increased knowledge and skills and enhanced positive feelings towards the recipient’s organisation. A total of 44% of participants reported being majorly or completely influenced to remain working in the organisation due to provision of the scholarship. Originality/value This study asks recipients to evaluate the scholarship scheme rather than the associated postgraduate education and provides preliminary support that scholarships are beneficial even when the amount of funding is less than half of course fees and the support from the employer is primarily monetary. The provision of scholarship funding can encourage existing professionals to undertake postgraduate study and attract them to pursue mental health specialisation instead of other health specialisations. Provision of scholarships is one strategy which can positively impact on mental health workforce retention in allied health professionals.

Salindia yang disajikan pada Seminar dan Temu Alumni dengan tema "Kiat-kiat mendapatkan beasiswa pendidikan" dalam rangka hut ke-63 dan BK FIB ke-40, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Udayana (27 September 2021).

Current policies and interventions to enhance student success and retention are often tied to full-time enrollment, which are substantiated by studies associating part-time enrollment with lower retention and poorer academic outcomes. However, these findings are limited to studies of first-time college students and do not represent today’s nontraditional undergraduate who may be transfer, online, and working adult students. To enhance retention of on-campus and hybrid online 2 + 2 transfer students in a STEM undergraduate program, need-based scholarships are awarded to students enrolled full-time as stipulated by the federal granting agency. Although the scholarship has helped >80 students to date, over 40% of eligible transfer students are excluded only because they are enrolled part-time, disproportionately affecting students in the hybrid online track who are more likely to be women and underrepresented minorities. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study explores enrollment behavior of transfer students (online and on-campus), its relationship with student characteristics and academic outcomes, and implications for scholarship eligibility. Full-time enrollment is a significant challenge for transfer students. While scholarship requirements are a key factor influencing full-time enrollment, online transfer students additionally cite work and family obligations as drivers of enrollment behavior. Thus, online 2 + 2 transfer students face different challenges than on-campus peers and are more likely to enroll part-time out of necessity, yet still have comparable GPA and graduation rates. These findings support a growing awareness of barriers nontraditional students face questioning the relevance of policies driven by “traditional” student outcomes, which perpetuate inequity in higher education. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10755-021-09549-7.

Financial aid to college students has been widely implemented by governments in developed and emerging economies in an attempt to reduce the entry barriers to higher education (HE). Understanding the extent to which these policies enable access to HE is crucial in order to unravel the effectiveness of such investments on promoting human capital accumulation. In this paper, we address this issue by employing a difference-in-differences framework to investigate the impacts of the Prouni, a Brazilian federal program created in 2005 that grants full and partial college scholarships to students from low-income families. We provide causal evidence that, by 2007, the full Prouni scholarship had increased the odds of enrolling in HE by 37%, while the partial Prouni scholarship had increased these odds by 20%; and that every USD 100 million spent by the government with Prouni’s tax waivers, generated an approximate 0.5 percentage points increase in the HE enrolment rate of academic age individuals (or, equivalently, every USD 1,000 per student increased this rate in 1.3 percentage points). Also, our findings suggest that the impacts of the grants on access to HE were greater for women and for non-white individuals.

Consideradas um elemento fundamental na formação dos artistas, as viagens e estadias no estrangeiro foram promovidas pelas instituições artísticas portuguesas através de bolsas de viagem e de estudo. Neste artigo sistematiza-se pela primeira vez a informação relativa à atribuição oficial destas bolsas, entre 1918 e 1939. Esta cronologia abarca importantes transformações na vida político-cultural do país – fim da Primeira República, Ditadura Militar, Estado Novo –, que por sua vez tiveram consequências no enquadramento e ação dos organismos sucessivamente responsáveis pela gestão dos subsídios artísticos (Conselhos de Arte e Arqueologia, Junta de Educação Nacional, Instituto para a Alta Cultura). Fundamentando-se na análise do enquadramento legislativo e interpretação das resoluções dos organismos decisores, e referenciando alguns casos concretos da sua aplicação, este texto visa contribuir para a reflexão sobre a ação das instituições oficiais portuguesas no fomento da formação e especialização artística no estrangeiro. Considered as a fundamental element in the training of artists, travelling and studying abroad was promoted by Portuguese cultural agencies through artistic scholarships. In this article, information on the official award of these scholarships is systematized for the first time. The chronology under scrutiny, between 1918 and 1939, includes important political transformations in Portugal – the end of the First Republic, the Military Dictatorship, the Estado Novo – which in turn had consequences in the organisation and action of the agencies successively responsible for the management of artistic promotion (Conselhos de Arte e Arqueologia, Junta Nacional de Educação, Instituto para a Alta Cultura). Based on the analysis of the legislative framework and on the interpretation of official resolutions, this text aims at contributing to the study of Portuguese official institutions in the promotion of artistic training and specialization abroad. Éléments fondamentaux pour la formation des artistes, les voyages et séjours à l’étranger ont été promus par les institutions artistiques portugaises par le biais de bourses de voyage et d’études. Dans cet article on systématise, pour la première fois, les informations sur l›attribution officielle de ces bourses, entre 1918 et 1939. Cette période comprend des transformations importantes dans la vie politico-culturelle portugaise – fin de la Première République, dictature militaire, Estado Novo –, qui à son tour ont eu des conséquences dans l’organisation et l’action des organismes successivement responsables de la gestion des subventions artistiques (Conselhos de Arte e Arqueologia, Junta Nacional de Educação, Instituto para a Alta Cultura). Fondé sur l’analyse du cadre législatif et l’interprétation des résolutions institutionnelles, ce texte vise à contribuer à la réflexion sur l’action des organismes officielles portugaises dans le domaine de la promotion de la formation et spécialisation artistique à l’étranger.

[full article and abstract in English] This paper considers the mechanism of direct state support for students in European countries using loans and grants: their functions, forms, schemes, and conditions for provision. The peculiarities of the state preferential educational loan in Ukraine and the reasons for its curtailment since 2011 are determined. Nowadays, it is established that the main form of state support for Ukrainian students who receive higher education in public procurement comes with academic and social scholarships, whereas students who receive higher education under a contract of preferential state lending yet after the curtailment of the program are deprived of any state support. The necessity of restoring the program of preferential state lending for students and the directions of its improvement, such as the establishment of an interest rate on a loan based on the level of inflation, the establishment of a minimum amount of annual payments on a loan as a percentage of the minimum salary, the distribution of the risk of non-repayment of a loan between the state, the borrower and his parent, are all substantiated. This is done taking into account the financial capabilities of the Ukrainian state and the high levels of hidden income. We consider the establishment of conditions needed for the development of a system of commercial educational loans, by providing for the provision of a state guarantee on it and partial state subsidy of interest rates. We consider the areas of improvement of scholarship support of students and substantiate the necessity of introducing education at least for orphans, children deprived of parental care, and disabled children.

These are the awards and scholarships provided by the Berryman Institute. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the initial application deadline has been extended.

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Applications are being accepted for professional awards and undergraduate student scholarships provided by the Berryman Institute.

İnsanlar, hayatın her anında ve her alanında hemen hemen her konuda bir tercih yapma durumunda kalırlar. Karar verme olarak ifade edilen bu tercih işlemi, günümüzde mevcut alternatiflerin, daha önce hiç olmadığı kadar fazla olmasından sebeple daha karmaşık ve daha zor hale gelmiştir. İnsan hayatında önemli etkilere yol açacak kararlar doğru verildiği takdirde onu amaç ve isteklerine ulaştırdığı gibi, yanlış verildiğinde bu istek ve amaçlarına ulaşmaktan mahrum bırakabilir. Bu yüzden karar verme kavramı hayatın önemli bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Genellikle birden fazla niteliksel ve niceliksel kriter yada amaçlara sahip olan kararlar karşısında karar vericiye çözüme ulaşması hususunda yardımcı olmak üzere Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Yöntemleri geliştirilmiştir. Bu yöntemler, birden fazla kritere sahip ve aynı anda uygulamaya konulan seçimler arasından en iyi tercihin yapılmasını sağlayan araçtır. Bu tezde karar verme kavramına değinilerek, çok kriterli karar verme yöntemleri ayrıntılı bir şekilde incelenmiştir. Uygulamada bursiyer seçimi problemi ele alınmıştır. Bu seçime etki eden kriterler belirlenerek, ağırlıklandırılmış ve Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Yöntemlerinden TOPSIS ve VIKOR kullanılarak, Akdeniz Üniversitesinde öğrenim gören ve 2017-2018 eğitim öğretim yılında ücretsiz yemek bursuna başvuran öğrencilerin sıralamaları elde edilmiştir.Anahtar Kelimeler: Karar Verme, Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Yöntemleri, TOPSIS, VIKOR, Bursiyer Seçim. People have to make a choice almost every matters in every moment and every field of the life. This making choice which is expressed as a decision making has become more complex and more difficult because today alternatives are more available than ever before. When making the right decisions which cause the significant effects in human life, deliver decision makers to their aims and desires; whereas, when the decisions are made false, people are deprived of their aims and desires. Therefore, the notion of decision making becomes important part of life. For this reason, multi criteria decision making methods are developed to help decision makers find a solution generally in the face of criteria which have more than one quantitative and qualitative decision or purpose. These methods are means to make a best choice among the choices have more than one criteria and applied at the same time. In this dissertation, multi criteria decision making methods are analyzed in a detail way by mentioning the notion of making decision. In implementation, the choices of scholarship holder are tackled. By determining criteria which effects the choices of scholarship are weighted and by using TOPSIS and VIKOR, which are the part of multi criteria decision making methods, the ranking of students who receive education from Akdeniz University, apply food scholar in 2017-2018 academic year, are obtained.Keywords: Decision Making, Multi Criteria Decision Making Method, TOPSIS, VIKOR, Choices of Scholarship. 139

La dimensión social de la Educación Superior constituye uno de los ele- mentos fundamentales de las políticas universitarias a nivel internacional en estos inicios del siglo XXI . Entre las medidas de retención, las políticas de becas y ayudas al estudio favorecen la equidad ya que garantiza una renta a las familias con menor nivel de recursos. En España, dentro del marco de la Estrategia 2015, la implantación de las becas salario pretendía garantizar el acceso y la persistencia a los estudios universitarios a aquellos grupos sociales más desfavorecidos económicamente. La presente investigación utiliza un modelo de regresión logística dirigido a buscar los factores determinantes de la permanencia del alumnado becado. El estudio se ha realizado con un total de 642 estudiantes de grado con beca salario de la cohorte 2010-11 de la Universidad de Barcelona. Con base a los resultados se puede a®rmar que la probabilidad de que un o una estudiante becada de la población objeto de estudio presente persistencia, aumenta con el incremento de la tasa de pre- sentación y con un alto porcentaje de asignaturas aprobadas. Los resultados estimados parecen indicar que la beca proporciona mayor dedicación al estu- dio y permite compensar las di®cultades del alumnado procedente de familias con bajos ingresos. Y por lo tanto se constituye en un instrumento potente para garantizar la equidad social.

La libertad religiosa se manifiesta en muchos campos del ordenamiento jurídico. Uno de ellos es la educación y la enseñanza manifestada en el derecho a la creación de centros de enseñanza por parte de las confesiones religiosas, en este caso universidades, y en el derecho a elegir estos centros por parte de los alumnos. En este trabajo se analiza y estudia si una disposición legal que excluye las ayudas públicas (becas) a los alumnos que estudian en las universidades que no son de titularidad pública vulnera los derechos de los alumnos y de las propias universidades, e incluso si este tipo de medidas legales limitativas supone una discriminación inaceptable por el ordenamiento jurídico. Religious freedom is expressed in many fields of the legal system. One is education and teaching, expressed in the right to create religion-based institutions, in this case, universities, and in the right of pupils to choose these institutions. This work analyses and investigates whether a legal disposition that excludes students who study in universities that are not publicly owned from obtaining scholarships harms the rights of the students and of universities. Particularly if these types of limiting legal measures imply an unacceptable discrimination by the legal system. Derecho canónico

The Berryman Institute (BI) is a national organization based in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University. We are dedicated to improving human–wildlife relationships and resolving human–wildlife conflicts through teaching, research, and extension.

This evaluation report is about the Strive Scholarship program – Social Impact Longitudinal Study and was commissioned by St George Community Housing in 2016. The purpose of the evaluation is to build an evidence base about the efficacy of the scholarship program which aims to support the educational attainment of young people growing up in St George Community Housing.

This paper explores the process of transnational institutional matching between elite institutions in Singapore and Great Britain, and the role of state-sponsored scholarships in enabling this process as political and administrative elites are selected and groomed. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews conducted with Singaporean undergraduates study- ing at Oxbridge and a dataset of the institutional origins of 580 Singap- orean government scholars, the analysis illustrates how students are being matched from two Singaporean junior colleges to Oxbridge and back to the higher strata of the Singaporean Public Service. We show that the educational trajectories of these government scholars need to be addressed in relation to the informational capital acquired in specific elite schools as well as the governing roles these individuals are meant to obtain within the state upon graduation.

On average, EU countries allocate 6.4% of total public expenditure for the direct support of the public sector at all levels of education. In view of a more rational allocation of resources seriously diminished by the crisis there are made efforts to identify educational areas considered problematic in terms of accessing various education programs. This paper presents pre-school funding policies and policies to support families with preschool and school age children in the European Union through a comparative analysis of the focus group type. There are also presented concrete ways of achieving that family support such as tax cuts, family allowances or by taking into account certain factors in order to establish fees. In all countries where taxes are paid for pre-compulsory education (ISCED A) there is a mechanism by which parental contributions can be adjusted according to the means available taking into account criteria such as family income, number of children, family status (children who live with one parent) geographic area, etc.

This article focuses on one piece from the complex puzzle of internationalization, namely the intercultural learning during education abroad. It departs from a critical reflection on American student applications for the Fulbright program and uses the application process for Fulbright scholarship as a lynchpin for other study abroad scholarships for American students. It shows how the stages of before, during and after education abroad can be comprehensively integrated into a holistic process of student development in American universities. This process has the ultimate goal of helping American students function in an international context and redefining their world view to encompass the notion that cultures can be understood relative to one another.

June 10, 2016 – Utah State University offered nearly $1 million in scholarship funding on Thursday to a group of high school students attending their last day of a weeklong engineering summer camp. The juniors and seniors were participating in the annual Engineering State, or ‘E-State’ event designed to introduce young people to engineering and computer science. On Thursday the group attended a closing awards banquet where 80 out of240 students were offered scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $41,000., https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/engineering_news/1071/thumbnail.jpg

Professor Chris Fawson has been teaching economics at Utah State University for the past 21 years, during which time he has also been named Department Head and Senior Associate Dean, Director of International Programs, Vice Provost for Academic and International Affairs, Executive Director of Partners in Business, and the International Professor of the Year (2012). Most recently, he was recognized by the Utah Statesman as one of the 50 most influential people on the USU campus. In addition to all that Dr. Fawson has given to Huntsman students through his teaching and leadership, he makes regular financial contributions to the school in support of student scholarships and programming., https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1251/thumbnail.jpg

ResumenEn el contexto de evaluación del desempeño de las instituciones de educación superior (ies) públicas en México, en 2008 se instrumentaron nuevos criterios para el ingreso a los estudios de licenciatura en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (uam), con el fin de mejorar tanto el perfil académico de ingreso como el desempeño de las trayectorias. Esta iniciativa la usamos como punto de inflexión para comparar las trayectorias académicas de dos generaciones de estudiantes, la 2004 y 2008 respectivamente; como eje ordenador empleamos dos referentes normativos: el Reglamento de Estudios Superiores (res) y las reglas del Programa Federal de Becas (pronabes). Entre los resultados advertimos que los nuevos criterios de admisión afectaron positivamente sólo a las trayectorias reguladas por el pronabes, en las demás, el rezago persistió. Apoyados en el institucionalismo sociológico, atribuimos este resultado a la incompatibilidad de racionalidades contenidas en los nuevos criterios de admisión con el marco normativo que regula la condición de alumno en la uam.AbstractWithin the context of performance assessment of public Institutions of Higher Education (ihe) in Mexico, new criteria were implented in 2008 for admission to Bachelor's degree studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (uam), in order to improve the academic profile of new entries as well as the performance of the courses of study. We used this initiative as an inflection point to compare the academic courses of two student generations, class of 2004 and 2008 repesctively. We used two references: Rules for University Studies (res for its acronym in Spanish) and the rules of the Federal Scholarship Program (pronabes for its acronym in Spanish). Among other results we observed that the new admission criteria had a positive impact only on courses regulated by pronabes, but for the rest the lag persisted. Supported by sociological institutionalism, we attributed this result to the incompatibility of the rationale in the new admission criteria with the regulatory framework that regulates the status of student of the uam.

Graduate programs provide the highest level of formal education and thus are crucial for the development of any country. However, official Brazilian data clearly show a dramatic decrease in the number and values of scholarships available to graduate programs in Brazil over the last few years, despite the importance and growth of such programs. Between 1995 and 2004, investment by the Coordenadoria de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal do Ensino Superior (CAPES, subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Culture) in funding scholarships, corrected for inflation in the period, actually decreased by 51%. In addition, during the period between 1994 and 2004, there was a loss of about 60% in the purchasing power of the graduate scholarships provided by CAPES and the National Council for Science and Technology (CNPq). To reverse this trend, we propose the development of sectorial funding for Brazilian graduate programs to guarantee the availability and continuity of financial support for this strategic activity.

Advocates argue that voucher programs can correct the incentive problems of education systems in developing economies. An accountability perspective, based on a principal-agent framework, was developed to clarify the arguments for and against education vouchers. An assessment of findings on voucher programs in industrial countries and a review of voucher or quasi-voucher experiences in Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Czech Republic support the usefulness of the analytic framework. The assessment concludes that the policy relevance of voucher programs for developing economies remains uncertain. Major voucher initiatives have been attempted only in countries with a well-developed institutional infrastructure. Some studies find favorable benefits for at least some population groups, but others find limited effects and evidence of increasing social stratification in schools. Whether vouchers lead to better outcomes or greater stratification appears related to specific contexts, institutional variables, and program designs.

The establishment of the JAE and the scholarship policy supported by this institution promoted not only the well-known scientific renovation, but other values related in this case to the technocratic views of social problems. The present study is aimed at exploring this second effect, a relatively unattended topic, by the examination of the concerns and purposes of various scholarship holders who traveled between 1909 and 1932 to Germany, England, Belgium, Switzerland, and France. La creación de la JAE y su política de pensiones promovió no solo los elementos integrantes del discurso oficial, sino otros intereses ligados a los enfoques tecnocráticos de los problemas sociales difundidos en la Europa de la modernidad. En este estudio exploramos este segundo efecto, no reconocido suficientemente, mediante el examen de la trayectoria y propuestas de diversos pensionados que viajaron entre 1909 y 1932 a Alemania, Inglaterra, Bélgica, Suiza y Francia.

This paper investigates the policy issue of whether schooling scholarships tend to decrease the incidence and intensity of child labor. The issue is examined in the particular country context of Nepal where child labor is not uncommon. Using data from the 2010 Nepal Living Standards Survey III and the method of coarsened exact matching, the paper finds that scholarships of a high-enough value decrease girls’ work by 7.5 hours per week (relative to a control group average of about 23 hours of total work per week), largely reducing their hours in economic and extended-economic activities with little impact on hours in domestic work. Scholarships of similar value do not appear to affect the work hours of boys. These findings have broader relevance and implications for the potential of scholarships as a policy option for combating child labor in developing countries. As these scholarships typically do not enforce regular school attendance, the findings also point to the potential importance of largely unconditional (but sizeable) transfers in many policy settings where conditionality is difficult to implement.

449-464 В статье анализируется совместная деятельность партийно-государственных структур СССР и Духовных управлений мусульман по отбору и отправке советских граждан на учёбу в зарубежные исламские учебные заведения в период 1947-1991 гг. The article analyzes the joint activities of the party-state structures of the USSR and the Muslim Religious boards in selecting and sending of Soviet citizens to study in foreign Islamic institutions in the period 1947-1991 years.

449-464 В статье анализируется совместная деятельность партийно-государственных структур СССР и Духовных управлений мусульман по отбору и отправке советских граждан на учёбу в зарубежные исламские учебные заведения в период 1947-1991 гг. The article analyzes the joint activities of the party-state structures of the USSR and the Muslim Religious boards in selecting and sending of Soviet citizens to study in foreign Islamic institutions in the period 1947-1991 years.

449-464 В статье анализируется совместная деятельность партийно-государственных структур СССР и Духовных управлений мусульман по отбору и отправке советских граждан на учёбу в зарубежные исламские учебные заведения в период 1947-1991 гг. The article analyzes the joint activities of the party-state structures of the USSR and the Muslim Religious boards in selecting and sending of Soviet citizens to study in foreign Islamic institutions in the period 1947-1991 years.

El objetivo del artículo es analizar el impacto del aumento de tasas universitarias del 66% que se implementó en Cataluña en el cuso 2012-13 y el papel de las becas provenientes del gobierno central. Se analizan los datos de los estudiantes de nuevo acceso de dos universidades catalanas, considerando clase social, titulación elegida y solicitud de beca, y se compara el año anterior y posterior al aumento de las tasas. Se constata cómo hay una diferente composición social en las diferentes titulaciones según coste de la matrícula y dificultad de superar los créditos. Así se muestra una estratificación en las universidades analizadas y un aumento de ésta en los cursos analizados, alejando así el sistema universitario de la equidad participativa de los estudiantes.

En España, dentro del marco de la Estrategia 2015, la implantación de las becas de estudio, y especialmente las becas salario adaptadas a la nueva situación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, pretenden garantizar el acceso a los estudios universitarios a aquellos grupos sociales más desfavorecidos económicamente. La presente investigación realiza un estudio ex post facto, de carácter descriptivo-comparativo dirigido a valorar la incidencia de la beca salario, como factor económico, sobre la equidad, el acceso y sobre el rendimiento académico en el primer año de universidad. El estudio se ha realizado con un total de 10.394 estudiantes de nuevo acceso de la cohorte 2010-11 de la Universidad de Barcelona, a partir de la base de datos procedentes de la propia institución. Un total de 642 estudiantes accedieron con la beca salario, con diferencias en función de la rama de conocimiento, el sexo y la vía de acceso a la universidad. En relación a sus compañeros, los estudiantes con beca provienen de familias con niveles ocupaciones y/o de estudios inferiores, de manera que el modelo de becas contribuye a la equidad en el acceso. En relación al análisis del rendimiento, los estudiantes con beca se matriculan y se presentan, en promedio, a un mayor número de asignaturas con la finalidad de cubrir los requisitos académicos de renovación de becas, pero los resultados académicos finales se ven, en varias ramas de conocimiento, influidos negativamente. Una posible explicación es la mayor presión académica de este colectivo en una fase de por sí complicada: la transición a la universidad.

This thesis addresses the importance of foreign assistance to U.S. national security. The history of U.S. foreign assistance suggests that a lack of consistent objectives is one of the primary challenges facing effective U.S. aid operations. Strategic aid planners can increase operational effectiveness by focusing on the following four planning considerations: (1) maintaining focus on recipient objectives, (2) stable funding, (3) making programs self-sustaining, and (4) minimizing dependency on U.S. appropriations or NGO donations. This thesis evaluates these factors in the context of three higher education foreign assistance programs. The Ford Foundation's International Fellowship Program offers an example of an international nonreligious NGO. The USAID-Higher Education for Development Training, Internships, Exchanges and Scholarships partnership in Mexico provides an example of a bilateral foreign assistance program. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Perpetual Education Fund offers an illustration of the humanitarian operations of an international religious organization. http://archive.org/details/foreignssistance109455036 US Air Force (USAF) author Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Hace un mes se presentó en el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación el informe Datos y Cifras del Sistema Universitario 2008/2009, documento que anualmente muestra una instantánea de la Universidad española y algunos datos de su evolución. También permite comparar la Universidad española con la de otros países.

The establishment of the JAE and the scholarship policy supported by this institution promoted not only the well-known scientific renovation, but other values related in this case to the technocratic views of social problems. The present study is aimed at exploring this second effect, a relatively unattended topic, by the examination of the concerns and purposes of various scholarship holders who traveled between 1909 and 1932 to Germany, England, Belgium, Switzerland, and France., La creación de la JAE y su política de pensiones promovió no solo los elementos integrantes del discurso oficial, sino otros intereses ligados a los enfoques tecnocráticos de los problemas sociales difundidos en la Europa de la modernidad. En este estudio exploramos este segundo efecto, no reconocido suficientemente, mediante el examen de la trayectoria y propuestas de diversos pensionados que viajaron entre 1909 y 1932 a Alemania, Inglaterra, Bélgica, Suiza y Francia.

In 1992, Georgia voters approved the Georgia Lottery for Education Act, which established the Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) Scholarship program, a state-supported merit-based aid program that provides renewable full scholarships to qualifying Georgia residents who enroll in any of the State'­s public postsecondary institutions or scholarships of comparable monetary value for those choosing a private in-state institution. The principal objectives of HOPE are to promote increased achievement in high school and college and to provide an incentive for the State'­s brightest residents to stay in the state. HOPE has been the inspiration for similar programs in over a dozen states. This thesis provides a broad exploration of economic questions regarding the nature and consequences of HOPE and similar programs and performs difference-in-differences analysis on data from two non-Georgia institutions to determine if HOPE has succeeded in motivating high achieving Georgia residents to attend college in the state rather than out of the state. At the public institution, relative to various control groups, the mean GPA and class rank of Georgia residents is lower post-HOPE, although their mean SAT score is higher post-HOPE. At the private institution, the HOPE effect is positive for all achievement measures used, meaning that the average achievement of Georgia residents is higher post-HOPE relative to that of other students at the institution. These conflicting results suggest the need for further exploration of the differences between public and private institutions and of the differences between the students choosing to attend them. Ph. D.

The origin of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) African Foundation is described. The 16th WAAVP Conference held in South Africa in 1997 generated a surplus of ZAR 430 460 (US$ 70 116). This was invested and a foundation established to manage the fund with the intention of using it to the mutual advantage of the WAAVP and African veterinary parasitologists. To date, more than 110 scholarship applications have been screened, and 51 full and partial scholarships awarded to young African veterinary parasitologists to attend subsequent biennial WAAVP Conferences. This investment has grown into a very successful endowment currently valued at US$ 206 553. This article is written in response to many queries across the globe about the origin of this fund and how it has been invested, managed, sustained and utilised.

The objectives of this paper are, in first place, to analyze the equity of the Spanish scholarship system for all levels of education, assuming that in a fair system grants are given mainly to families with unfavourable economic conditions. A second element, also related to equity and which seems to diminish it, is analyzed in depth: the number of frauds when applying for grants. Finally, the third objective of this study, is to evaluate the efficiency of the Spanish scholarship system. This will be considered efficient, when it achieves that the income level of the families is not a determinant variable in the decision of attending non compulsory studies. The results show that the Spanish system of grants and financial aids to study presents serious limitations on equity as well as on efficiency. Los objetivos de este trabajo son, en primer lugar, analizar la equidad del sistema español de becas para todos los niveles educativos, entendiendo que éste será equitativo cuando las ayudas sean recibidas fundamentalmente por las familias que se encuentren en condiciones económicas desfavorables. En segundo lugar, también en relación con la equidad, se busca profundizar en el análisis de uno de los elementos que, a priori, pueden contribuir a disminuirla: los niveles de fraude en la solicitud de las mismas. Finalmente, el tercer objetivo de este trabajo, es evaluar la eficiencia del sistema español de becas, considerando que éste será eficaz, cuando logre que el nivel de renta de las familias no sea una variable determinante en la decisión de cursar estudios no obligatorios. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que el sistema español de becas y ayudas al estudio adolece de serias limitaciones tanto en la equidad como en la eficiencia del mismo.

Graduation success of college athletes is becoming as popular a phrase in the world of college sports as is the term Proposition 48. This phrase has derived from the inability of college athletes to obtain a degree after their playing eligibilities have ended. This study focused on several variables that help determine or judge the graduating success of a student athlete. The particular variables used were SAT scores, high school GPA, college GPA, and race. A positive relation of 93% of all students, 77% relationship for black student athletes, and 100% for non-blacks was found between SAT, high school GPA, and college GPA graduating success. It should be noted that other variables may affect the success or lack of success of a student athlete; however, these lie beyond the scope of this study. Master of Science

Memorandum describing the expectations of candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships in the United States.

Booklet concerning scholarships created by Cecil John Rodes, including a memorandum for those interested in appointing scholars.

Booklet concerning the scholarships to be established at Oxford under the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes. Includes an extract from his testamentary dispositions.

Annual Report for Utah Agricultural College.

Letters concerning the scholarships created under the will of the late Cecil John Rhodes.

Annual report for Utah Agricultural College.

The social dimension of higher education is a key element in university-wide policies and procedures at international level. Amongst measures to improve student retention, grants and bursaries promote equity by making financial assistance available for study purposes to children of low-income families. Within the framework of the Spanish government's University Strategy 2015 programme, the purpose behind the introduction of study bursaries was to provide economically disadvantaged social groups with access to, and the possibility of completing, higher education studies. From a study of 642 undergraduate students awarded a study bursary in the 2010-11 cohort at the University of Barcelona, a profile of the study bursary holders and their academic performance during their first year at university was defined. The projected results indicate that study bursaries lead to higher levels of student dedication in the pursuit of study and that they offset the difficulties faced by students from low-income families.