Nexen, a CNOOC Limited company, has developed the Nexen Oil Sands Scholarship Program to encourage and assist students who undertake to further their postsecondary education and skills training. Nexen has committed $1 million to this postsecondary scholar ...
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The fellowship will help fund a proposal designed by the applicant to conduct brief work in a foreign country related to the mandate of UNESCO – using education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and/or communication and information to ...
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The Nexen Oil Sands Scholarship ensures students in Anzac and surrounding areas can share in the success of our Long Lake operations. The scholarship provides financial support to high school graduates pursuing post-secondary education and skills training ...
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The Placement Office maintains a registry of teachers interested in international opportunities, the International Teacher Placement Service. Throughout the year, overseas schools contact the Placement Office looking for appropriately qualified teachers; ...
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The SOM Prize is a research and travel fellowship that enables one outstanding applicant the opportunity to travel in connection with carrying out in-depth research on a subject of their choosing; to meet with other professionals in the field; and to purs ...
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The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is a unique programme. Since its establishment in 1959, it has provided opportunities for over 30,000 citizens of all Commonwealth countries to study in other member countries.
Since the scholarship ...
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Varsity Tutors offers a monthly college scholarship contest to students who write the best essay in response to a monthly prompt.
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Women make up nearly 50 percent of the global workforce; however, gender equality is not yet a reality in senior management and corporate boardrooms around the world. According to a 2014 Catalyst Census[1], women hold only 4.2 percent of the CEO positions ...
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The fellowships are being given to enhance the role of women in devising scientific solutions to problems confronting humankind in the 21st century. If you are a successful recipient of the L'Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowsh ...
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The purpose of the fellowship program is to encourage graduate research in grain-based food science and technology.
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Members of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars are eligible to apply for this award.
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Foundation for Global Scholars designates 60% of its scholarship funding to students deemed underrepresented in study abroad and awards scholarships three times annually.
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The Fellowship provides community-focused experiential learning opportunities for graduating students to become active and effective change-makers, bringing new ideas and working closely with communities to foster sustainable and positive social change in ...
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For 3rd or 4th year undergraduate student registered in a University of Alberta degree program who wish to participate in a study exchange for one term (fall or winter) or academic year (fall and winter) at a UAlberta exchange partner institution.
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Sara’s Wish Foundation scholarships are awarded to extraordinary young women committed to making the world a better place by fully participating in it.
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Each Rolex Scholarship provides a hands-on introduction to underwater and other aquatic-related endeavours for a young person considering a career in an underwater-related discipline.
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This foreign study supplements program is available to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who hold a Joseph-Armand Bombardier, an Alexander Graham Bell, or a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) at the master’s or doc ...
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Microsoft enables students to participate in technical conferences like Grace Hopper, SHPE, NSBE and others. A conference scholarship grant covers the cost of conference registration and a lump sum amount towards travel, hotel and other related expenses.
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Global Village volunteers work alongside families in need to build simple, decent, affordable homes in communities around the world. A Global Village trip can be a life changing experience for you, the community you visit, and the families whose lives are ...
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IDRC offers this Fellowship (a bequest from Helen S. Bentley and C. Fred Bentley) every two years in October to a Canadian, permanent resident of Canada, or a citizen of a developing country. You must be a graduate student with a university degree in agri ...
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