postgraduate scholarship | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 5

2011 The O2 Scholarship in MBA Programme at University of Reading in UK

This postgraduate scholarship provides a number of awards up to the value of £1000 – £6000 towards the cost of tuition fees, for students applying for the MSc Marketing and International Management programme. It is available (dependent on eligibility) for 1 year.This scholarship is sponsored by Telefónica O2 UK Limited, a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 19.1 million mobile customers and over 260,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2008. Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc which is a business division of Telefónica S.A. and which owns O2 in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 43.8 million customers.

  • UK, EU or International postgraduate taught students who have received an offer of a place on the MSc degree in Marketing and International Management programme.
  • Applicants must also meet the School’s academic entry requirements and obtain an IELTS score of 7.0 or the equivalent.
  • You must first receive and accept an offer of a place on the MSc Marketing and International Management programme in the School of Management, and paid the required deposit.
  • Please ensure that that when completing your application and supporting documents that relate the content and any answers given to O2 were relevant. Please return a completed scholarship application form with your confirmation of acceptance.Shortlisted applicants may be invited to attend a formal interview and winners will be notified following the appropriate deadline.

    Scholarship Application Deadline: 25 October 2011

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    University of Birmingham, International Postgraduate Scholarships 2011 in UK

    For over a century the University of Birmingham has been recognised as one of the world’s leading universities for the quality of our teaching and research. We attract students of the highest calibre from around the world and have been welcoming international students to the University for over 100 years. To award outstanding achievement, we are pleased to offer a number of international postgraduate scholarships.

    Applicants must have an excellent academic background obtaining a good 2:1 equivalent bachelors degree as a minimum.

    Applicants must also demonstrate excellence in an area of their life. This might be outstanding academic achievement, exceptional achievement in extra curricular activities (such as sport, music, managing events or societies) or significant achievement gained either in their working life or through volunteering and service to others.

    Applicants must also outline the contribution they will make to the University of Birmingham as a student and what they expect to gain from studying here.

    Eligibility : In order to apply candidates must:
    be overseas for fee purposes
    have applied for a one year full time masters course and have been issued with a student id number
    must not be in receipt of a full fee scholarship from any other source
    Any application received without an id number will not be considered
    Have made adequate financial provision to study in the UK.

    For information on living cost for the UK please visit the International student Advisory Service website.

    Scholarship Application Deadline:May 27th 2011

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    Postgraduate Scholarship in Analytical Chemistry, Sweden

    The doctoral project is about supercritical fluid extraction of lipids from microalgae, and the development of kinetic models describing desorption, diffusion and solvation of lipids in liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide. The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers in chemical engineering, limnology and biotechnology, as well as within a multi-disciplinary collaboration about sustainable development. Analytical technologies that will be used within the project are mainly gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC) and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), with mass spectrpometry (MS/MS), evaporative light scattering (ELSD) and charged aerosol (Corona-CAD) detectors. Department duties, usually laboratory teaching, will be included of up to 20%.

    Eligibility/Entry Requirements

    Basic entry requirements for PhD studies are: a degree at advanced level, courses to an extent of at least 240 credits, of which at least 60 at advanced level, or corresponding proficiencies aquired in Sweden or elsewhere.

    Special requirements for this position: master degree in natural science, environmental science or engineering with good knowledges in analytical chemistry. It is a requirement to have conducted a degree project in analytical chemistry (or corresponding) of at least 15 ECTS. It is an advantage if you have previous experience from analytical chemistry work, preferably with different separation techniques and mass spectrometer.

    Scholarship Application Deadline: 2011-02-16

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