Le Cordon Bleu Scholarship for Bachelor Degree,Australia

Job Description: The following documents must be completed and sent to Le
Cordon Bleu Australia:
1. A completed Application Form available from the prospectus.
2. Certified copy of Year 12 school report and certificate of
completion of high school (to be sent at the end of the school
year)
3. Certified copy of birth certificate or passport
4. A 500 word essay based on the question below:
Le Cordon Bleu is an icon in providing leading-edge hospitality
management programmes, how do you see the Le Cordon Bleu
award assisting you in achieving your career goals?
On your application, please indicate the degree which you are
applying for.
The scheme is based on exclusive relationships between
selected Australian high schools and Le Cordon Bleu
Australia. The Scholarships are valued at AUD$30,000 for
either of the Adelaide based degrees:
Bachelor of Business
(International Hotel Management)
Bachelor of Business
(International Restaurant Management)
This scholarship scheme is specifically aimed at assisting
young Australians to gain international qualifications that
might otherwise be beyond their reach.
Students are selected for their passion, dedication and
enthusiasm for the Hospitality industry.
Le Cordon Bleu in Australia
Le Cordon Bleu Australia, part of the world-renowned Le
Cordon Bleu School in Paris, is the pre-eminent provider
of studies in hotel and resort management, restaurant
consultancy, food and beverage management, gastronomy
and culinary arts worldwide.
The two International Business Management Degrees prepare
graduates for management positions in international hotels,
resorts, restaurants or the convention business, and the
world of international hospitality corporate management and
consultancy.
Le Cordon Bleu and You
Le Cordon Bleu invites your school to be part of this exciting
development and to promote this scholarship annually to
students at your school who may be considering a career in
hospitality.
Schools can:
1. Nominate students to receive the scholarship based on the
school’s criteria and Le Cordon Bleu Austraila’s conditions
of entry as detailed in the “Scholarships Entry Citeria.”
2. Promote and advertise the scholarship within your school
newsletters, magazines and notice boards, or whichever
way you feel will be the most effective.
Le Cordon Bleu Australia is keen to promote this scholarship
and support careers in the hospitality industry, and will
happily arrange to host information sessions for individual
students or student groups, as requested. We also have
posters, brochures and prospectuses for your careers office
as well.
The selected recipient (s) of the scholarship will be provided
with a Le Cordon Bleu parchment, which may be awarded at
a school ceremony.
Le Cordon Bleu – an icon in the
international hospitality field -
has chosen to implement a very
significant scholarship scheme
to assist young people who have
chosen the hospitality industry
as their career.
Young Australian
Entrepreneur Scholarship
*The above 2010/2011 fees cover tuition, examinations, student textbooks, orientation programme and part of the professional uniforms
required during the programme.**Students can earn approximately A$10,000 – A$16,000 during each stage of industry placement. ***Le
Cordon Bleu Australia reserves the right to review fees at any time. If tuition fees are increased, you will be required to pay the new fees
as they are introduced.

For further information

www.lecordonbleu.com.au

Doctoral Assistant Position in Public Economics, Universit?ella Svizzera italiana

The Institute for Microeconomics and Public Economics (MecoP) at the Faculty of Economics,University of Lugano, invites applications for up to two Doctoral Assistant positions for up to four years. The starting date is October 2010, but a later date is possible. The working environment (including infrastructure and remuneration for teaching and research assistance) is very attractive.
The successful candidate(s) will be full-time PhD students at the University of Lugano, under the supervision of Professor Jametti. As such the candidates’ main focus will be on doctoral research and completion of related PhD courses (with a possibility to pursue doctoral courses at the Study Center Gerzensee). The research topics will be in Political Economy and/or Fiscal Federalism with an emphasis on empirical applications. Since the positions are financed through grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, research projects will insert themselves into these projects. In addition candidates will provide part-time assistance in the institute’s research projects and teaching activities.
The ideal candidates have, or are upon completion of, a Master’s degree in Economics,
Econometrics or a related field.
To inquire or to apply for these positions please e-mail: mario.jametti@usi.ch.
Candidates should include a complete CV and the following information:
1- A transcript of your university education.
2- A description of attended courses in Microeconomics and Econometrics specifying the
grade, the level and the main textbook used for each course;
3- The names of two academic references that could be contacted for more information.
The received applications will be regularly reviewed until the position is filled. Owing to the large number of enquiries received, only those applicants whose profiles are likely to fit the positions will be notified for further details and eventual interviews. Qualified applicants will be contacted no earlier than June, 2010.

Contact:
Università della Svizzera italiana
Istituto MecoP
Via Giuseppe Buffi 13 CH – 6904 Lugano (TI)
+41 58 666 47 83/48 16 telefono
+41 58 666 47 33 fax
E-mail: marisa.clemenz@usi.ch; monica.link@usi.ch; lucia.bassetti@usi.ch

Graduate Studentship (MS, PhD) ,Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

Recruiting foreign graduate students.
The successful applicants will join Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Biomedical Science to develop and apply MRI sciences for brain imaging. The students will investigate MRI in normal volunteers and/or clinical patients for perfusion imaging, diffusion imaging, structural imaging, metabolite imaging, or functional imaging.
Entry requirement: An excellent undergraduate degree or similar qualification in physics or related sciences including computer sciences, biomedical engineering, or neuroscience, with a strong background and interest in C++ or MATLAB programming is essential.
Eligibility: Some experience of NMR/MRI would be useful but not essential. In addition, the English language proficiency is necessary. Writing or speaking Korean language is advantages, but not required.
Awards: Research scholarship including tuition is available for the students and part of living expense will be supported.
For further information please visit graduate school website at Kyung Hee University and send or email your detailed curriculum of vita to Dr Geon-Ho Jahng:

Contact Person:
Geon-Ho Jahng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology

Contact Address:
East-West Neo Medical Center
School of Medicine, Kyung-Hee University
149 Sangil-dong, Gangdong-gu,
Seoul 134-727 South Korea
TEL: 82-2-440-6187
Email: ghjahng@gmail.com

Study Scholarship for Fine Arts, Architecture, Music, Dance,New York

Job Description: These scholarships aim to provide highly qualified students in the fields of fine art, design, film, music, choreography and architecture with an opportunity to complete a program of additional studies, with or without earning a formal degree, at a German institute of higher education.
Eligibility Requirements

* The guidelines here pertain to applicants in the fields of Fine Arts, Architecture, Music and Dance. (Applicants in all academic fields are welcome to apply for the regular Study Scholarship.

* Graduating seniors or graduate students applying for this program must be enrolled full-time at an accredited university at the time of application.(Those who have already completed an undergraduate degree do not need to be currently enrolled.)

* Recent graduates who have completed their Bachelor’s degrees no longer than six years before the application deadline are welcome to apply.

* PhD candidates must have achieved ABD status no longer than four years before applying. Postdocs may apply until two years after completion of their PhD.

* Applicants should be US or Canadian citizens. Foreign nationals must have studied at an accredited US or Canadian university for at least two years by the time of application.

* At the time of application, Applicants must not have been resident in Germany for more than one year.

* Applicants are requested to have a well-defined study project that makes a stay in Germany essential. Preference will be given to applicants who have been invited by a faculty member at a German university to study at a particular university department.

* Applicants in the arts, humanities and social sciences should have a good command of German.

* Applicants may not hold a DAAD grant and a grant from another German or German-American organization/German-Canadian organization concurrently for the same project. Prior recipients of a DAAD grant should contact DAAD New York before applying to determine their eligibility status.
Application Deadline
November 1, 2010

For further information

www.daad.org

USA: Wilson Center Fellowships

USA: Wilson Center Fellowships
*FELLOWSHIPS @ THE WILSON CENTER 2010-2011 - SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES AND MORE*

The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

*Eligibility*

* Citizens or permanent residents from any country (foreign nationals must be able to hold a valid passport and obtain a J1 Visa)

* Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of -backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, professions, and academia)

* Academic candidates holding a Ph.D. (Ph.D. must be received by the application deadline of October 1)

* Academic candidates demonstrating scholarly achievement by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations

* Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement

* English proficiency as the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows

www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fellowships.welcome

Postgraduate scholarship by The Bentley Cropping Systems Fell

Postgraduate scholarship by The Bentley Cropping Systems Fell
This Fellowship (a bequest from Helen S. Bentley and C. Fred Bentley) provides assistance to Canadian and developing-country graduate students with a university degree in agriculture, forestry or biology, who wish to undertake postgraduate,
applied, on-farm research with cooperating farmers in a developing country.

In principle, IDRC supports research on all parts of the developing regions of the world. At this time, Fellowships and Awards is not supporting awards which involve research in Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

Projects should evaluate and/or promote the use of fertility enhancing plants, such as leguminous forages, shrubs, cover crops, and grain legumes in small farms. The intent is to seek ways to increase the yield of food crops, improve farmers` livelihoods, and improve soil fertility.

The research should seek cropping system changes that will lead to: sustainable and increased crop yields; production of more and improved animal feed; improved soil and water conservation; improved weed control, and/or biological fixation of nitrogen. Projects should be planned and executed in cooperation with an international agricultural research centre, or with a developing-country institution involved in agricultural research that has an applied on-farm orientation.

Eligibility
1. Applicants
Applicants must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, or citizens of a
developing country who are currently enrolled full-time in a graduate program (Master`s, doctoral, post-doctoral) at a recognized university in Canada or in a developing country for the duration of the award period.

2. Key Selection Criteria
A. Focus of the Research:
Proposals must focus on very simple cropping systems research that can benefit
smallholder farmers in developing countries, especially rural women farmers.

B. Participatory
Research:
Applicants must use simple experiments executed by cooperating farmers under guidance by the researchers (see details about the location of individual on-farm experiments) , and conduct their research with the active participation of the farmers, including women farmers. This requires that farmers be involved in all stages of the
experiment on their land, including all the stages of land preparation, seeding, and harvesting.

Research proposals must include details of the comparisons envisioned between the traditional cropping practice of cooperating farmers and the side-by-side alternative cropping practice, which must include some type of leguminous crop or plant. Please consult the attached diagram that shows how a simple on-farm experiment might be compared to either one or two alternative cropping systems. Thus, experiments must compare crop yields from traditional unicrop practice with yields of the same crop combined with some kind of leguminous plant grown either simultaneously with the traditional crop, or perhaps in some cases, grown before the traditional crop is planted.

Similar experiments executed in rural school gardens, conducted with the help
and advice of the Fellowship holder, and with the participation of both students and teachers, are also encouraged.

The research procedures must include extensive dissemination of the research results.
Smallholder farmers, including rural women farmers, should be the major focus of such publicity:

a. The results should be presented in formats that can reach the various stakeholders, such as field days, farmer visits, briefs for policy-makers;
b. Dissemination will actively involve farmers, extension workers, local development initiatives, and agricultural organizations by addressing other smallholder farmers, especially rural women farmers;
c. The publicity should include farmers` visits and farmer-to-farmer teaching and learning.

The applicant must:
- Provide evidence that a large part, or all of the research, will be carried out on the farms of resource poor or smallholder farmers. The award will not support research carried out on the farms of large land holders or on research stations;
- Provide evidence that farmers will actively participate in the experiments. Thus, the development of simple on-farm experimental designs with appropriate controls to determine the practicality and profitability of introducing a leguminous crop in their cropping system is essential;
- Scholarship applicants must provide explanations of how they will make the frequent trips from the `home base` to the villages of the cooperating farmers. This is essential for successful execution of on-farm tests;
- Explain how the research data was collected and how the introduction of leguminous plants in their cropping systems is expected to improve the economic benefits to farmers;

Applicants should suggest anticipated benefits/improvemen ts and sustainability of
their proposal.

C. Sustainability:
The applicant must:
- Provide evidence that he/she is or will be supported by local institutions that have a good working relationship with target communities, farmers and/or extension agencies;
- Indicate that he/she will seek cooperation, help and support from the local `extension officers` and/or NGOs in the identification of individual farmers who
are likely to be suitable and cooperative.

Duration
Award tenure corresponds with the period of field research. In general, this will be between eighteen months and twenty-four months.

Value
The value of the award is up to CA $30,000. If there is strong evidence of significant potential benefits, the award may be extended upon re-application.

Progress Reports
Fellowship holders will commit to provide IDRC with three brief progress reports per year.

Deadlines
October 1, 2010 (awards will be announced by mid-December 2010).

Tenure must be undertaken by December of the following year.

Please submit all documents listed in the List of Supporting Documents to be
Submitted. Complete applications must be received at the Centre by the deadline. Incomplete applications will NOT be considered for the competition. Applications must be sent to the following address:

By regular mail, Canada Post Priority Post or XPRESSPOST:

The Bentley Fellowship
Fellowships and Awards
International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)
PO Box 8500
Ottawa, Ontario
K1G
3H9 - Canada

By courier services:

The Bentley Fellowship
Fellowships and Awards
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
150 Kent Street, Mailroom Suite 990
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 0B2 - Canada
Fax: (1 613) 236-4026
Telephone: (1 613) 236-6163 ext.: 2098
E-mail: cta@idrc.ca

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7 PhD fellowships in Molecular and Chemical Ecology (Jena)

7 PhD fellowships in Molecular and Chemical Ecology (Jena)
The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) "The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques" in Jena, Germany, is offering 7 PhD fellowships beginning in January 2011. Students holding a Master's degree (or equivalent) in molecular biology, ecology, plant physiology, entomology, microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry or neuroethology, with a proven record of success in one of the disciplines and interest in examining ecological interactions, are eligible to conduct a doctoral project within the IMPRS.

Deadline for applications is 30 June 2010.

The Research School is a joint initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. The main focus is on plant-herbivore interactions; other ecologically relevant topics are also investigated.

For detailed information on the IMPRS, projects offered and the application procedure please visit our website http://ping.fm/tIpkR

Postdoc Position at Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Greifswald Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiolog

Postdoc Position at Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Greifswald
Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology

We are seeking a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher who can work independently. The appointee will establish a new molecular diagnostic setup to conduct research projects in the field of clinical microbiology. Moreover, there is a chance to perform basic research in the field of infection biology (host-pathogen- interaction). Projects will be conducted in close collaboration with the Department of Functional Genomics providing excellent technological facilities.

The University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is located near the bay of Greifswald, which is part of the Baltic Sea between the islands of Rügen and Usedom and offers great recreational possibilities.

Please direct applications (cover letter, CV, publication list) and at least two letters of reference to

Prof. Dr. Ivo Steinmetz
Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology
University of Greifswald
Martin-Luther- Str. 6
17489 Greifswald
Germany
steinmetz.ivo@uni-greifswald.de

PhD Position in Applied Mathematics at University of Limerick

PhD Position in Applied Mathematics at University of Limerick
UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK
OLLSCOIL LUIMNIGH

Applications are invited for the following position:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI) PhD studentship

A graduate studentship is available for up to four years to work under the direction of Professor Andrew Fowler on problems associated with the growth of biofilms in industrial and environmental situations. Applications of these studies will be to groundwater pollution, environmental bioremediation, medical and industrial air and water systems. The position primarily involves the construction and numerical solution of mathematical models to describe the growth of bacterial biofilms in soils and on pipe walls. The student will be part of MACSI, the Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, at the University of Limerick.

The University of Limerick (UL) with over 11,000 students and 1,300 staff is a young, energetic and enterprising University with a proud record of innovation in education and excellence in research and scholarship. UL is situated on a superb riverside campus of over 130 hectares with the River Shannon as a unifying focal point. Outstanding recreational, cultural and sporting facilities further enhance this exceptional learning and working environment.

Candidate Profile
The candidate should hold at least a 2.1 degree in applied mathematics, mathematical bioscience, bioengineering, or a related discipline. In addition, the candidate should be able to work both independently and in a team environment and possess good organisational and communication skills. Appropriate experience in mathematical modelling and numerical computation is desirable.

Stipend
University fees will be covered and the position carries an annual stipend of €18,000 (tax free). Appointment commencing in September 2010 is highly desirable. MACSI at UL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and a stimulating research environment.

How to apply
Candidates should submit a detailed CV, transcripts of undergraduate grades, motivation letter and the names and addresses of two referees for letters of recommendation to: macsi@ul.ie .

Further information: Please contact Professor Andrew Fowler (E-mail: andrew.fowler@ ul.ie).

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USA: Scholarships at University of Minnesota

USA: Scholarships at University of Minnesota
*GLOBAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA*

*Are you a high-achieving student who is tired of filling out scholarship applications? *

At the University of Minnesota, all incoming international freshmen and transfer students are automatically eligible to receive one of the limited number of Global Excellence Scholarships. You do not need to fill out a separate application to be considered for the scholarships, which are awarded in the amount of $4,000 or $2,000 for up to four years.

Furthermore, it is quite an honor to receive these competitive, merit-based scholarships, since students are considered for these awards based on an overall assessment of their admission application. For more information on becoming one of the 4,000 world-class international students and scholars at the University of Minnesota, please visit www.passport.umn.edu/.

*Minnesota English Language Program (MELP)*

Whether you are struggling with English or simply seeking to perfect your language skills to excel in a university setting, the Minnesota English Language Program (MELP) offers credit and non-credit English courses to meet your unique needs. Offered since 1968, MELP courses are taught year-round by friendly, high-skilled teachers. Enrolled MELP students have access to cutting-edge technology and a wealth of University resources, facilities, and support services. Choose the program that works for you: short-term customized programs, TOEFL Test Preparation, or the Academic English Program, which you can take at the same time you are pursuing a degree at the University of Minnesota. The application deadline for each term is seven weeks prior to the start of classes, but it is advisable to send all application documents at least two months prior to the beginning of the term in which you intend to enroll.

Please visit
www.cce.umn.edu/Minnesota-English-Language-Program/
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