The results suggest that the Becas program improved students' attendance and performance, in part through program conditions requiring good attendance and academic progress for continued scholarship receipt.
The basic idea is to give more student aid to colleges that admit more disadvantaged students, that show progress in lowering costs and raising scholarships, and that shepherd students to earn a degree.
The Singapore Millennium Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization created to promote and advance scientific progress in Singapore, offers Singapore Millennium Scholarships to outstanding young predoctoral and postdoctoral research scientists and engineers in selected scientific disciplines of strategic importance to Singapore's economy and national development.
In scholarship, chronology does matter.
All are more active in scholarship and research.
Lessons progress in difficulty.
Scholarship graduates rated very highly the regular check-ins with scholarship program staff post-graduation.
Indeed, the ELSI model seems worth emulating - with deliberative commissions and academic ELSI scholarship progressing in parallel with scientific and technical advances, not only for genomics but also other fields (for example, the field of stem cell research often integrates ELSI work).
Re "Women in Sports Cultivating New Playing Fields" (front page, Feb. 13): While women have made progress both on and off the field, the struggle persists for equality -- in scholarships, tournament prize money, endorsement revenue and respect.
Finally, Herder also made vital contributions to the progress of modern biblical scholarship.
Measuring FOS progress, Part 2, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, September 15 , 2002
