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A Macquarie University Research Excellence PhD scholarship in Law – Legal Governance, Australia

/ January 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Legal Governance Concentration of Research Excellence (CORE) in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, is offering up to two full time Macquarie University Research Excellence PhD Scholarships (MQRES) under the supervision of Professor David Weisbrot AM, the co-convenor of the CORE.

The successful applicant will join an innovative team of researchers at Macquarie Law School who are undertaking inter-disciplinary research on contemporary issues related to legal governance and public policy.

Applicants may pursue doctoral studies in one of the following areas:

  • the governance and ethical, legal and social implications of new medical technologies, especially genetics and nanotechnology
  • the changing nature of legal practice, and the implications for the regulation and organisation of the profession, as well as for education, ethics and professional responsibility
  • freedom of speech, expression and assembly
  • Pacific Islands legal systems, especially the interplay between customary law and western law
  • the nature, methodology and impact of modern institutional law reform agencies
  • information law, including privacy, freedom of information, secrecy laws, archives, and the handling of classified and security sensitive information
  • animal welfare law

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

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MathMods – Erasmus Mundus MSc Scholarship

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2-year Master’s Course called MathMods – Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications.
Courses are given in English and students will be spending their 2 years in at least two of the five European universities that made up the MathMods Consortium:
– University of L’Aquila, Italy
– Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia
– University of Hamburg, Germany
– Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
– University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France. Applicants must have obtained a recognized Bachelor’s Degree (BS, BSc, SB, etc.) – or a degree at the same level of an academic Bachelor’s Degree, for instance its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of high standing, or 180 ECTS credits in the European system – in one of the following (or equivalent) fields:
* Applied Mathematics
* Mathematics with a good background in Physics
* Physics with a good background in Mathematics
* Engineering with a large background in Mathematics and Physics.

Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on condition that their Bachelor’s degree is awarded before the enrolment on MathMods MSc. The accomplishment of the Bachelor’s studies must be documented no later than 15 August 2011.
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All applicants whose native language is not English are required to prove a satisfactory level of spoken and written English, certified by:

* TOEFL: minimum 550 for PBT / 213 for CBT / 80 for IBT. You may send the TOEFL certificate simply as a photocopy or you may send it directly through ETS. Use these data when adding us as a new score recipient: Code number: 3676, Institution: University of L’Aquila.
* IELTS: 6.0 points
* CPE: Grades A, B, C
* CAE: Grades A, B
* or equivalent to the above.

The test must have been taken within the four years immediately preceding the requested semester of admission and be valid at the time of enrolment.

If applicants don’t have an English certificate by the deadline, we may also accept a temporary certificate by the Director/Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree study programme (or an academic in that group) stating that the applicant is so fluent in English that s/he can understand and discuss high level scientific topics. If possible, the letter should be signed either by a native English speaker academic full Professor or by an academic full Professor in English language (with full contacts included). Then, if you are selected, you will have to send an official certificate (see the list above) no later than 15 August 2011.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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INSEAD Syngenta Endowed Scholarship(s) for Emerging Country Leadership: Business World

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Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2007 were approximately US$ 9.24 billion. Syngenta employs some 21,000 people in 90 countries. Headquarters is located in Basel, Switzerland. Since Syngenta strongly believes that talented people are the key to successful businesses they embrace INSEAD’s mission to train the brightest and best from around the world for the challenge of tomorrow’s business world. Syngenta is particularly committed to the dynamic emerging market regions and has therefore chosen to offer this scholarship opportunity to future leaders from emerging countries. Two scholarships will be awarded per class and candidates for this scholarship will need to demonstrate: (a) outstanding academic achievement and promise (b) aptitude for business and financial management (c) leadership potential and (d) a commitment to contributing to their country or region at some point in the future.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 11 February for the July class
18 August for the December class

Further Scholarship information and Application

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