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NZ PM’s 2025 scholarship scheme offers 119 opportunities in Asia and LatAm

The PIE News

The New Zealand government has announced that 119 recipients have been awarded as part of the Prime Minister’s Scholarship scheme for 2025. The scholarship grants the opportunity to young New Zealand citizens to study and work across Asia and Latin America with financial aid from the government.

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NZ scholarships to send students to Asia and LATAM

The PIE News

New Zealand has announced the 171 exchange students to be supported by Prime Minister’s Scholarships who will travel to Asia and Latin America over the next year. Diversity within outbound mobility is a key part of the country’s international education strategy , and the first round of scholarship recipients are from 14 groups.

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Career Talk: The Heart of Teaching

Today's Learner

Lacking financial means, I became a work-study student and received scholarships and loans to pay my tuition. She also was the 2014 recipient of CRLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2013 On Course Ambassador of the Year award. I developed a heart of serving others and wanted to continue by pursuing a degree in teaching.

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Africa-China HE engagement: a one-way road?

LSE Higher Education Blog

Whether the AfricaChina relationship in higher education is labelled as South-to-South cooperation ( Niu et al , 2021), development aid ( Ehizuelen , 2018), partnership ( Niu , 2014), soft power ( Pan , 2013), neo-colonisation ( el-Shafei & Metawe , 2021) or knowledge diplomacy ( Ogunnubi & Shawa , 2019) is a much-contested topic.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Inside Higher Ed

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. Even if we start looking at 2013 compared to 2020, the decline in library staffing appears large.

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Keystone makes athlete placement acquisitions

The PIE News

Barcelona-based I-Con Sports has, since its establishment in 2004, secured over US$60 million in funding for some 1,200 student-athletes from 50 countries, while Future Elite Sports in the UK has helped to obtain athletic & academic scholarships for 1500+ students across the UK since 2013.

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Womanist Ethicist, Theologian Named MLK Professor of Religion and Black Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her scholarship as a womanist and Black theology comprises work on social issues such as racial health disparities and environmental racism. Townes holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. in religion in society and personality from Northwestern University.

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