Archive for January, 2009

Scholarship for Masters In Arts Fields

My name is saba. I have done my bachelors degree in textile design from National College of Arts.now i want to do masters in textile design but i can’t afford the expense due to some personal reasons. please inform me about some scholarships for arts students for study abroad.

Master’s Degree Program Scholarships

Background

The AUN/SEED-Net Project with support from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provides scholarships to highly qualified young teaching staff and graduating students/young graduates (i.e., potential future faculty staff) of Member Institutions to acquire master’s degrees in the following nine engineering fields at respective Host Institutions in other countries:

Chemical Engineering (at De La [...]

Research assistantship positions at United Arab Emirates University

The Research Assistant Positions are available in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing at the Research Center, College of IT, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.

Research Assistant will parallelize and implement applications on top of an HPC infrastructure (Oil Reservoir simulator, bioinformatics, etc.), work on other projects on middleware and parallel programming models, etc.

Transfer of MBA credits to UK University

My name is kashif i am doing mba from a recognize univeresty here in pakistan,i have three and half year experience as an accountant in a freigh forwarding company,i want to transfer my credit hours to u.k univeresty specially in manchester or bradford because my releative is living in these two cities.Kindly guide me how [...]

Which field to do master’s degree in after BBA, other than MBA

I am doing my BBA-Hons from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University Karachi, after my intermediate my father told me to go towards commerce or business side, I by myself was interested in BS or BBA too by a ratio of 60:40, As my father wanted me to go towards BBA so I picked it up, now [...]

Degrees attestation by HEC an uphill task Disrespectful behaviour of HEC staff

Islamabad, Jan 29: The limited capacity of attestation department of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the disrespectful behaviour of its staff are a constant source of anxiety for the students who come from different parts of the country to get their degrees attested.
Only two counters for males and females each have been [...]

PhD and Post Doc Fellowships at Bremen Germany

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its Ph.D. and Postdoc program. BIGSSS is an inter-university institute of the University of Bremen (UB) and Jacobs University. 20 PhD and 6-8 Postdoc stipends/fellowships are available at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science, Germany. Non-German students are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline [...]

Query about Fulbright Scholarsip

I am a student of 4th year, dept of International relations, university of Dhaka, Bangladesh. I will complete my graduation within august 2009. can i apply for Fulbright scholarship for post graduation for the next term announcement? is GRE necessary for the scholarship. Is GRE applicable for the students of social science? how much score [...]

Scholarships for students from Pakistan at The University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is pleased to offer a range of scholarships to students from Pakistan who show exceptional academic potential and are starting their studies at the University of Sheffield in September 2009.
Undergraduate Scholarships eg BA, BSc, BEng, MEng
Faculty Undergraduate Scholarships
We are pleased to offer scholarships to all international students commencing their studies [...]

Fulbright Scholarship – GRE & Toefl discount deal

The announcement for the next round of applications for the Fulbright Scholarships will be announced soon.  In order to give you a head start, we would like you to begin registering for the GRE and Toefl exams right away.  Both these tests are mandatory if you wish to be considered for the Fulbright Scholarship.
In order [...]

OFID Scholarship Award for Graduate Students

Scholarship opportunity for Pakistani students who wish to pursue graduate level studies in any university in any country of your choice.
Deadline to apply: March 31st 2009
See Details Below:
OFID (The OPEC Fund for International Development) is pleased to announce that qualified undergraduate students are welcome to apply for the OFID Scholarship 2009/10. The OFID Scholarship will [...]

HEC online degree verification system for students

Islamabad, Jan 15: Higher Education Commission (HEC) has planned to soon initiate online verification of degrees of students intending to visit abroad for further education. This was stated by Member Operations and Planning HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmad.
The commission would verify degrees and certificates of students intending to get admissions abroad, in [...]

Finance Ministry yet to release HEC funds

Islamabad: Despite the instructions of the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, the Finance Ministry has been unable to grant timely and full release of allocated funds to the Higher Education Commission (HEC), thus disobeying the orders of the chief executive of the country.
The premier had issued these directives along with other orders to the Finance [...]

HEC decided to abandon the project of First Law university of Pakistan

Chairperson higher education commission announced that due to unavailability of funds the first law university which was planned to be setup at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad will not be able start this year. It was planned that students will be able to earn a law degree after 5 years of BA LLB and for this [...]

HEC ranking of Pak Universities

Here are the key leaders in the ranking:
Agriculture / Veterinary
1. University of Agriculture (UAF), Faisalabad
2. NWFP University of Agriculture , Peshawar
3. University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi
4. Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam
Art / Design
1. National College of Arts, Lahore
2. Textile Institute of Pakistan, Karachi
3. Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi
Business / I.T.
1. Lahore Uni. of [...]

Undergraduate Scholarships at University of Hong Kong

University of Hong Kong [which is ranked as 33 in world ranking] has offered undergraduate scholarships for Pakistani students. Under this program, scholarships will be offered in all fields except MBBS (Medicine) program. The scholarships will be of following three types: 

Full Scholarships
Half Scholarships
Partial Scholarships

Last date for submission of application is January 31, 2009. 
The details of [...]

Post Doc Fellowships at LUMS

Lahore Unviersity of Management Sciences (LUMS) through its Centre for Advanced Studies in Mathematics (CASM) has invted nominations/applications for  post doctoral fellowships (@ Pak Rs. 70,000.00 per month) for six months during the year 2009-10. The applications should be succinct and include the following: Name, Date of birth, Academic qualifications starting from B.Sc., Research experience, List [...]

Brunei Darussalam Scholarships to Foreign Students- 2009/2010

Introduction
With His Majesty’s consent, the Government of Brunei Darussalam is offering annual scholarships under a special scholarship award scheme, commencing in 2009-10 academic session. Under this program following courses are being offered in various universities of Brunei Drassalam:
 

Bachelor Degree (Honors)
Master Degree
HND (Higher National Diploma)
DN (Diploma in Nursing)

Objectives
The aim of the scholarship award is to [...]