Scholarship Tips

An interview on Scholarship application for Nigerian Students

Tweet The first and most important step to searching for education financial opportunities is to understand how scholarships work. Overlooking this aspect may cost you more in future opportunities. If you are overwhelmed by the process of finding and applying for scholarships and financial aid, today I want to share with you an interview...

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How to Win a Scholarship in 2012

Tweet As the year 2012 is just as fresh, it is the time of the year most of us set goals with hopes of achieving them through the year. Here in Nigeria, the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government through the PPRA has called for massive protest and distractions among Nigerian citizens....

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How to Find International Scholarships online in 2012- Do It Yourself

Tweet You might have nursed the dream to study abroad to complete your undergraduate or postgraduate education for some time, and even more predominantly, to achieve such with financial help, in the form of scholarship(s). Why shouldn’t you? After all, you deserve it. You might also have heard from cynics that it is ‘very...

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8 Common Problems Scholarship Applicants Encounter and How to Fix Them

Tweet I want to share with you a Guest Article I wrote on www.intscholarships.com (a Scholarship Website) on 8 Common Problems Scholarship Applicants Encounter and How to Fix Them. On interaction with scholarship aspirants, you’ll get to realise that the most conventional problem potential scholars encounter while seeking financial aid to further their education,...

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How a Kenyan Student Won a Scholarship to Study Pharmacy in 2010- What it takes to Win Scholarships.

Tweet Extraordinary Scholarship for a Kenyan Pharmacy Student Myron Odingo- a young Kenyan student from a “humble background” was awarded what the Keele University called “the chance of a lifetime” to study Pharmacy at a UK university, through a unique sponsorship scheme offered by the Keele University and global pharmaceutical company sanofi-aventis. Myron Odingo-...

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Using Quotes to Improve your Scholarship Search on Google

Tweet I’ve written about searching for scholarship on Google; how to play around with keywords to get better search results. Another Google.com search feature you can use to improve your search results is searching with quotes. Here is how it works. Lets say, I’m searching for Engineering scholarships to apply. If I enter the...

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10 things You Need to Know to Acquire International Scholarships

Tweet There are more to winning overseas scholarships than just applying without a plan… And there are many available scholarship programmes — Both for Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies — you can apply to as a Nigerian / African Student. The point then, is for you to follow through the application process with your best...

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How to Automate your Scholarship Search With Google Alert- Google Research Secret

Tweet Google AlertGoogle Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results from websites, news-sites or blogs, based on your choice of query or topic. Users can set up a Google Alert for any query, and Google will automatically email them a digest of all new publication for that query as often as...

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WSAF 2010 Scholarship Fraud- The Update

Tweet Two days ago I published a post titled The World Scholars Alumni Foundation Scholarship 2010. SCAM? You Must Read This — a scholarship program I suspected to be a scam/ fraud after I received a mail from a student in India. The World Scholars Alumni Foundation Scholarship 2010 opened application to Students from...

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The World Scholars Alumni Foundation Scholarship (WSAF) 2010. SCAM? You Must Read This.

Tweet What you are about to read could be tagged ‘The Most Controversial Blog-Post of The Year’. It could even create a wrong impression of this blog- AfterSchoolAfrica.com – but it’s a chance I’m willing to take. A lot have been said and written about scholarship scams. Students fall victim of these con artists...

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How a Student Won a Scholarship Award Because She Was the Only One That Applied

Tweet I was reading some scholarship success stories recently (it’s something I do quite often), and was shocked at the story of Erica M. who won a Scholarship simple because she was the only student that applied. Here is a recap of her story. Scholarships Awarded: Elks Most Valuable Student Scholarship: $4,000 Earl Anthony...

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Preparing for scholarship is like Football World Cup

Tweet As the Football world cup competition continue to unfold it’s surprises, it will be nice for scholarship aspirants to learn a few lessons from this competition. Thirty-two (32) teams are struggling for the world cup, and only one out of them will end up winning the prize. All 32 teams have qualified to...

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