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Granholm Signs Pledges Of Students Who Say They'll Go To College
Students at Lansing Eastern High School signed pledges Tuesday co-signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm promising they'll go to college on the state's new Michigan Promise scholarship. "If you don't go to college or get technical or vocational training, then you're not only hurting yourself, but you're hurting the state, too," Granholm told more than 40 students sitting around tables in the school library. "As you consider where you're headed, consider that your own education is going to help to transform Michigan," she added. "We want you to accept ... the $4,000 that we are putting on the table in order for you to be able to go to college." .
Egypt offers scholarships to Antiguan students
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has announced that his government has received support from the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in its quest to educate the people of Antigua and Barbuda. “Today, the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt confirmed that they have allocated three post or under-graduate scholarships for Antiguan and Barbudan students to study in Egypt commencing in September 2007. Because of our excellent relations, they have also pledged to double the number of scholarships offered for the 2008 Academic year," Prime Minister Spencer stated. The scholarships being offered by Egypt are available in: finance and planning, international banking, special education, medicine, public health, information technology, accounting, engineering, communications, nursing, mathematics and music.
Dancing with stars
This weekend's "Nutcracker" ballet performances aim to dazzle and inspire, but they also aim to reflect on Evansville Dance Theatre's role in the community after a quarter century, says Keith Martin. To those ends Martin, who became Dance Theatre's artistic director in 2005, has hired professional soloists with international credentials to work with his own student company, he's recruited boys from an Evansville elementary school to play soldiers, and he'll introduce a special party guest in a wheelchair. All will appear on stage at The Victory at 2 p.m. Saturday and again at 7:30 p.m. Each will be performed to Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's music, played live by the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. This will be the Evansville Dance Theatre's 25th anniversary performance of the celebrated Christmas ballet.
Rahul Bose launches scholarship scheme
Actor, director, writer, social activist and national-level rugby player — Rahul Bose has donned several roles. On Tuesday, he unveiled his latest project — an ambitious plan to take promising children from the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands to good residential schools in India.
The English, August actor announced the setting up of a foundation to administer the Andaman and Nicobar Scholarship Initiative that will provide scholarships to six boys and girls from the islands, based on their scholastic proficiency and extra-curricular talent. The students, chosen for the next academic year, will go to the prestigious Rishi Valley School near Bangalore.
For a project that will initially cover only six children, the foundation will spend a lot of money, around rupees two crores, in the next six years.
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