HSP HUYGENS PROGRAMME SCHOLARSHIP, NETHERLANDS

This scholarship is aimed at international students who wants to come to the Netherlands for Master's degree programme.

When you apply for admission to a programme in the Netherlands, you should indicate that your study performance is excellent and that you wish to be nominated for the prestigious HSP Huygens Programme by the Dutch institution you would like to study at.

List of Netherlands Universities you can apply to is shown below with their website.

University of Twente www.utwente.nl
Delft University of Technology www.tudelft.nl
Eindhoven University of Technology www.tue.nl

For other Universities in Netherlands and areas of study, log on to www.nuffic.com

THE BEST POST-GRADUATE COURSE

This is the question that every graduate students ponder about; Which post-graduate course is the best; Which post-graduate course will give me a better job; Which post-graduate course will give me a job in an oil and gas company because that is where my interest lies; Which post-graduate course will help me to make a comfortable living. These and many other questions ponders the mind of many graduate students today.

Many people have their own personal opinion as per the best post-graduate course . Some may give their own opinion out of personal experience while others may be based on the present world economic situation.

I must let you know that the best post-graduate course really depends on you; your interest; the kind of live you want to live; the industry you want to work; your first degree; the economic situation of your home country; your personality; your goal and aim in life.

Now you can see that there are many factors that determine the best post-graduate course for an individual. What may be the best for one person may not be the best for another person.

Therefore, take time and meditate seriously and just be yourself. Go ahead for what you love and what gives you joy.

COMMONWEALTH SHARED SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME

This is different from the normal Commonwealth scholarship that each participating country nominates their citizen. For this scholarship, it is the participating University abroad that nominate candidate for the scholarship

This scholarship is mainly for Master's degree and your subjects of interest must be related to the economic, social and technological development of your home country.

You are expected to hold a first degree at either first class or upper second-class level. DFID and participating United Kingdom institutions will jointly meet the full costs of an award holder’s study in the United Kingdom including air fares to and from the United Kingdom.

APPLICATION AND SELECTION

Applications should be made directly to the institutions at which you wish to study. The sponsoring institutions will be the judges of academic calibre and will forward their nominations to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission for its agreement.

UNITED KINGDOM UNIVERSITIES
There are many UK Universities that participate in this scholarship. Some of them are:
University of Wolverhampton www.wlv.ac.uk
University of Worcester www.worcester.ac.uk
University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk

For detail information and other UK Universities you can apply to,
Log on to www.dfid.gov.uk, click FUNDING SCHEMES at the left side menu.
Scroll down and under Funding for international students wishing to study
in the UK , click Shared Scholarship Scheme.
Under DFID Shared Scholarship Scheme, Click DFID COMMONWEALTH
SHARED SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME- PARTICIPATING INSTITUTE 2008. Is a
PDF file, you will get full details of the DFID Scholarship

THE e8 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP

Hello, welcome to my blog. This blog is all about studying abroad with scholarship opportunities. There are many scholarship opportunities that many people don't know about and that has made their dream of studying abroad to die because they could not afford the cost of studying abroad.

Well, you don't have to worry anymore concerning the cost of studying abroad because this blog will provide you free scholarship information that you can utilize to your own advantage. That means you have to be visiting this blog regularly so that you can have access to all the free scholarship postings.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
Do you know that the reason while some succeed and others fail is just in one word ‘’INFORMATION’’ Successful people have information that the unsuccessful people don’t have access to. Those that are successful in every area of their lives are not better than you, neither are they more intelligent. The simple secret is that they have access to some kind of information you don’t have access to. Giving the same kind of information, you may even do better than them.

That is while you need to visit this blog regularly for every possible scholarship information that will help make your dream come through.

BENEFITS OF STUDYING ABROAD

With international degree certificate;

you can work in different country.

You can work in different company;

You can lecture in any school of your choice;

You are recognized world-wide because of the international degree you hold;

You stand shoulder to shoulder with every other scholar in the world;

You are exposed to the best education facilities in the world;

You interact with the best brains in the world;

You are exposed to international community;

You will have great opportunities to even do your internship with
multinational companies you thought you will never be able to enter and
many of such internship leads to job placement;

You will study under the best condition in the world;

There are other many more benefits of stduying abroad. That is while this blog is so important for your academic success.
For my first post, I will be talking about ''The e8 Sustainable Energy Development Scholarship'

THE e8 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, students must plan to undertake studies at the Masters level or Post-Doctoral level in areas directly related to sustainable energy development and be citizens of the developing countries and territories identified for OECD official development aid.

Scholarships of US$ 23,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Masters level students. Scholarships of US$ 30,000 per year for up to two years are offered for Post-Doctoral students. Up to two Post-Doc and ten Masters scholarships will be awarded annually.

All application is done online. You first apply to the University. When you are offered admission, you then use the admission letter to apply for this scholarship.

These are the Universities you can apply to ( Remember, the programme of study must be related to sustainable development)
University of Edinburgh www.ed.ac.uk
University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk
University of Leeds www.leeds.ac.uk
Oldenburg University, Germany www.uni-oldenburg.de/en
Loughborough University www.lboro.ac.uk
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden www.kth.se/int

There are many other Universities in UK, Sweden and USA that offer courses relating to Sustainable development. To get the scholarship form and more details relating to the scholarship, follow this link, Log on to www.e8.org Then place your mouse pointer to SCHOLARSHIP on the page that opens. Move the mouse down to SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAMME and click APPLICATION FORM