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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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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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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. 10) and to accept autism as a positive aspect of one’s identity (Berger, 2013). American Psychiatric Association (2013). How did we get here? References. Ainslow, M. About Autism.

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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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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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New Zealand: visa applications 25% off pre-Covid figures as recovery continues

The PIE News

One year previous in 2013/14, 2,662 had been rejected compared with the 14,917 approved. “The NZEA are unique scholarships designed exclusively for Indian students that are jointly funded by ENZ and all New Zealand universities.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fuentes, who is set to begin her senior year as a scholarship student at the University of California, Riverside, this fall, is majoring in education, society, and human development with a minor in political science. Priscila Fuentes is one of those students. Both of Fuentes’s parents are from Mexico, where she was born.