This includes an overhaul of several programs focused on workforce training and development and teaching excellence, including the Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships.
Though it's an obvious sadness that they will not at this stage be supported by famously sane sibling Janet - or indeed misunderstood Pied Piper Michael - it is hoped the venture will clear the way for shows in which Paris Hilton offers pastoral care to novice nuns, and Rio Ferdinand is charged with awarding fellowships of All Souls.
In 2008 AmeriCorps members mobilised 2.2m community volunteers, so this expansion could affect 7m people.The new law will also create "encore fellowships", which will tap the skills and experience of older Americans for second careers in education, health care and non-profit management.
Though its own bright graduates still head to Europe or the United States for PhDs or post-doctoral fellowships, nowadays that is more because science is an international affair than because they cannot study at home.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has established a programme of generous fellowships for expats the "hundred talents programme".
They provide fellowships, mentorship programs and start-up contests.
And when a successful investor such as Peter Thiel offers undergraduates $100,000 fellowships to drop out of college and work on their start-up ideas, the idea that graduate education can be a springboard for entrepreneurs begins to look counterintuitive.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, for example, is unusual in that it offers scholarships (or fellowships as it refers to them) solely on the basis of need.
Even those fellowships that are specifically targeted at female entrepreneurs, for example cannot be sought before application.
In China they receive more grants and fellowships than their domestic competitors.
THE National Academies of Science NASS) and the Royal Society the elite scientific fellowships of America and Britain, respectively, respectively released today a rather handy "Frequently Asked Questions" resource on climate change.
