Scholarships

The GE Foundation Scholar-Leaders Program began in 1987 in Mexico and since then it has been a strong pillar which provides support to outstanding students in higher education in fourteen countries around the world among which India is also the one.

The GE Foundation Scholar-Leaders program is administered by the Institute of International Education on behalf of the GE Foundation.

What does the scholarship include?

Financial support for the last 2 to 3 years of your program
Access to funded participation in Leadership Development Seminar

India Masters Scholarships at Kings College London in UK 2015

Kings College London offers India Master’s Scholarships, each worth £5,000 towards your tuition fees, to Indian applicants who are applying for one of the eligible full-time master’s programmes highlighted.

Eligibility

Be due to commence a full-time postgraduate master’s programme, in one of the eligible programmes (see below), at King’s College London in the 2015/16 academic year

The 2015-2016 International Scholarship Programme application cycle is now open. Application forms can be obtained from the Aga Khan Foundation or Aga Khan Education Service/Board office in the applicant’s country of current residence.

Pre-matric scholarships to minority community students should also be paid through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to ensure disbursal without delay and transparency, Centre has told the states.

The post-matric and the merit-cum-means scholarships are already distributed through the DBT mode to the students’ bank accounts.

“I am now keen that the pre-matric scholarship scheme is also delivered to the beneficiaries through the DBT mode from this year,” Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla said in her letter to the Chief Ministers.

Colgate Palmolive India Ltd. has announced scholarships upto 1 lakh rupees. To participate in the Colgate Scholarship offer, consumers have to either give a missed call on a toll free number printed on the pack of Colgate Dental Cream toothpaste or to answer a simple question on Oral Care communicated in Colgate scholarship television commercials.

The terms and conditions of the Scholarship Offer, which is open from January 1, 2015 to February 28, 2015, are available at: www.colgate.co.in.

The Indian High Commission has said in a statement that the Government of India has offered 180 scholarships for Sri Lankan candidates to follow undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. degrees at some of the leading universities in India.

These scholarships are available for study in all courses, except medicine, the high commission release said.

One hundred of the 180 scholarships are being offered under the Nehru Memorial Scholarship Scheme for all undergraduate courses, including engineering, science, business, economics, commerce, humanities and arts.

Prof. S A Shukoor Managing Director AP State Minorities Finance Corporation stated in a press note that Minority Affairs Ministry, Govt. of India has re-opened SMS portal from January 1 to 18, 2015 only for renewal of Merit-cum-Means based scholarship for courses selected under it and whose result was delayed. Courses selected for the same is as follows, Medical and Para medical courses, Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry and Law Pharmacy.

Siasat news

Applications are solicited from Indian nationals working in overseas research institutions for the “Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship”, a re-entry scheme of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India

Aim of the Fellowship

2500 National Scholarships for Students with Disabilities have been announced for 2014-15.

National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC), for and on behalf of Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India, invites applications from Students with Disabilities for award of Scholarship under the following Scholarship Schemes

Scholarship Scheme (Trust Fund)

Applications are invited for one position of Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai-25 for Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India sponsored ongoing project on “Differential effects of 20-HETE in mediating VEGF and NO induced changes in tissues by distinct signaling mechanisms” sanctioned to Dr. C.D Anuradha

Eligibility

JRF: First class M.Tech/ M.Sc (with NET/SLET) /M.Pharm/ M.S (by research) degree in Biotechnology/ Biochemistry / Molecular Biology

Name : Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)

Website : drdo.gov.in

Junior Research Fellow

B.Tech/ B.E in Applied optics/ Applied Physics/ Lasers and Electro-optical/ Laser Science &

Applications/ Laser Technology/ Lasers/ Optoeletronics/ Physics.

Post graduate degree in Applied optics/ Applied Physics/ Lasers and Eletro-optical/ Laser Science &

Applications/ Laser Technology/ Lasers/ Optoeletronics/ Physics

How To Apply

Interested and eligible candidates are supposed to type written application in the prescribed format

Applications have been invited from Indian nationals for the JN Tata Endowment Loan Scholarships for the academic year 2015-16 for higher studies abroad in all disciplines and subjects

Scholarship Programme

The uniqueness of the J.N. Tata Endowment Scholarship Programme lies in its inherent flexibility and transparency

Korean Government Scholarship Program – 2014 Korean Government Scholarship Program for International Students for Graduate Degrees

Korean government invites 880 international students from 164 countries who wish to pursue MA or PHD in Korea.

To be selected as a KGSP grantee, any applicant should successfully pass through the 1st selection process set by the Korean embassies of his or her origin or KGSP universities in Korea.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani has said that a “Pragati Scholarship” has been launched by the government from the year 2014-15 to provide encouragement and support to the girl child to pursue technical education.

Irani, who gave this information in a written reply to the Lok Sabha question, said the salient features of the “Pragati Scholarship” are as under:

(i) Number of scholarship per annum: 4000

(ii) One Girl per family whose family income is less than Rs 6 lakhs per annum

(iii) The candidates will be selected on merit at the qualifying examination

Applications are invited for grant of Rs.10 lakhs as financial assistance to SC students who are desirous of pursuing higher studies in professional courses like Medicine/Engineering/Pharmacy/ Nursing/ pure Sciences/ Humanities/Social studies, etc. in Foreign Universities — USA, UK, Australia, Canada and Singapore.

Call for Applications for Fellowships 2014-15

Department of Health Research (DHR) has launched a scheme to provide advanced training to medical and health research personnel in India and abroad in cutting edge research areas concerning medicine and health to create trained human resource forcarrying out research activities with main goal of improving patient management and public health in the country

This scheme has following components:

1) Short Term Fellowships for 1-3 months from regular faculty (In India and Abroad, Age: upto 55 years)

Health City Fellowship 2015

Applications are invited for entry to fellowship courses starting from January 2015 at Narayana Health City, Bommasandra, Bangalore, Karnataka

A) Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS)

1) Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Eligibility: M.Ch/DNB (CT-Surgery); Duration: 1½ year; Intake: 02

2) Fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Eligibility: DM/DNB (Cardiology); Duration: 1½ year; Intake: 02

3) Fellowship in Cardiac Anaesthesia, Eligibility: MD/NB (Anaesthesia); Duration: 1½ year; Intake: 02

In a bid to encourage research scholars, the University Grants Commission has hiked the basic fellowship amount and scholarships from Monday

The Board of Intermediate Education on Sunday informed that the last date for submission of fresh scholarship application forms by students, who have passed Intermediate Public Examination in March, 2014 and who are provisionally selected by the BIE for Scholarships under “Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students” (CSSS) admitted in Degree / Professional Colleges during the academic year 2014-15 has been extended from November 30 to December 31.

India offers around 1,000 scholarships every year to the Afghan students, which is sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

The ICCR scholarship scheme for Afghanistan was launched in 2005.

At present, the Afghan students are pursuing courses in international studies, economics, bachelors’ degrees, B. Tech and many more programmes in various universities across India.

The ICCR provides 6,000 scholarships to foreign students from 30 countries, which are spread in more than 20 states and 120 educational institutions in India.

The second batch of Innovation Scholars In-Residence Programme will commence from 7th March, 2015. The duration of stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan will be for a period of two weeks.

Application are invited by Directorate of Collegiate Education (DCE), Thiruvananthapuram for the Central Sector Scholarship (Renewal) 2014‐15 from the awarded Students of 2010‐11, 2011‐12, 2012‐13 and 2013 ‐14

Rate of Scholarship per Year

(1) 2010 ‐11 Awardees (4th renewal): Rs 20,000/‐
(2) 2011‐12 Awardees (3rd Renewal): Rs 20,000/‐
(3) 2012‐13 Awardees (2nd Renewal): Rs 10,000/‐
(4) 2013‐14 Awardees (1st Renewal): Rs 10,000/‐

Eligibility

With 401 scholarships this year and over 750 in the last two years, this is the largest scholarships program offered to Indian students.

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British Council on Friday announced 401 scholarships for Indian students this year as part of its Great Britain campaign.

SRF Programme 2015 at IAS, Bangalore Applications are invited by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore from interested students and teachers from all universities and colleges affiliated to UGC/AICTE/MCI/Accredited Institutions of State Universities for Science Academies Summer Research Fellowship Programme for Students and Teachers during year 2015

The three national Science Academies offer several two-month Summer Fellowships to enable students/teachers (studying/teaching in India) to work with scientists associated with the three Academies

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and WHO goodwill ambassador for leprosy eradication Yohei Sasakawa Thursday announced a scholarship worth $100,000 a year for the education of children from leprosy-affected families.

The scholarship would be jointly administered and dispensed by Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation (SILF) and Association of People Affected by Leprosy (APAL).