Jason Obrien

I know why most of you are here. Because you are confused, and this is the problem most of the students are suffering from. They want to study abroad in the best universities, but the only hesitation is the ‘cost’.

Yes the cost, not everyone is in the position to afford all these expenses. Because it’s not only the tuition fee to worry about, there are also other things attached to it.

But fear not, you still have a chance, if you are in truth a hard-working student. There are some kindhearted people who care about you and have managed to make a way for you.

There are hundreds and more scholarships that offer the best students to study abroad and fulfill their dreams. Some of these scholarships are offered by governmental agencies, others by the universities, and some of the charitable enterprises and external funding foundations.

The Categories of Scholarships

Merit-Based Scholarship

These merit-based scholarships are offered to the students who have shown excellent academic results in their previous institute. They are also offered to the students who have participated in any extracurricular activities and volunteer works.

Student Specific Scholarship

These scholarships are offered to the students to study abroad with respect to some various factors such as disabilities, race gender. Or if a student is considered as a minority. First-gen college students can also take advantage of this scholarship

Region-specific scholarship

These scholarships are based on the region or country of the student, or the region of the institute of students. These are also given to those students who want to proceed with a program in that country in the future.

Program-specific Scholarship

These scholarships are based on the specific subject or program that is the major field of the student to study. It is offered by the universities on the basis of personal goals and achievements.

10 Merit-Based Scholarship Offered by International Universities

CIEE scholarships

There are some merit-based scholarships that are offered to the students by CIEE based on the academic records or by submitting an essay on CIEE, that how will it impact on our future plans.

It offers summer and semester programs

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PING SCHOLARSHIP FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Award: $2,500 (semester program cost)

Award: $750 (summer program cost)

Qualifying programs: All summer programs, all semester or year-long CIEE program.

MCDERMOTT HEALTH SCIENCES, NURSING, AND PUBLIC HEALTH MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

Award: $2,500 (semester program cost)

Award: $750 (summer program cost)

Qualifying programs: CIEE’s Community and Public Health summer, semester or year-long programs.

RITZMANN TROPICAL AND MARINE ECOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP

Award: $2,500 (semester program cost)

Award: $750 (summer program cost)

Qualifying programs: CIEE’s Sustainability and the Environment, or Tropical Ecology and Conservation summer, semester or year-long programs.

Foreign Government scholarships

There are some merit-based scholarships that are offered by USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and France mentioned bellowed:

EIFFEL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (FRANCE)

This scholarship program to study in France was developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so that the higher education of France can allow the best students of masters and Ph.D. level to study in their best universities. The Eiffel program does not cover the tuition fee. In fact, it covers the student’s monthly allowance, cultural activities, social security, and a return trip.

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ENDEAVORS POSTGRADUATE AWARDS (AUSTRALIA)

This scholarship program offers international students to study in any field in Australia. It covers all the financial support of a foreign student.

Qualifying Programs: Masters (up to 2 years).

Ph.D. (up to 4 years).

Scholarship Coverage: Tuition fees, travel allowance, monthly stipend, health insurance, travel insurance, establishment allowance.

VANIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP (CANADA)

This scholarship was meant for international doctoral students to study in Canada and participate in establishing it into a world-class global center in higher education. The course covers doctoral degree or combined MA/Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D.

Award: worth $50,000 per year for three years.

CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIPS (UK)

Chevening scholarship program is basically meant for the superlative students that show a potential towards leadership. They are allowed to study and cover their courses at the postgraduate level in the best universities in the United Kingdom.

Scholarship Coverage. Most Chevening scholarship programs cover tuition fees, living allowance for one person only, an economy class return trip back to the UK and additional grants for necessary expenditures.

Some of these programs cover only a part of the cost of studying such as only the tuition fee or only the living allowance.

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FULBRIGHT FOREIGN STUDENT PROGRAM (USA)

The Fulbright foreign student program is a scholarship program that provides allowance to the students from other companies to come and research in US universities or any other suitable university for one year or longer. It provides funding to the students for study duration such as tuition fees, monthly allowance, textbooks, returns airfare, and health and travel insurance.

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Merit Scholarship based on essay writing:

STUDY ABROAD AWARD

The good colleges study abroad award is an essay writing competition scholarship award that allows the students to study abroad in different countries at the college level. For this purpose, the students have to write an essay of around 150 to 250 words on the given topic in order to win the competition.

The students who win this competition gets a cash prize of $2,000 which can be used as living expenses as a foreign student while studying abroad.

Deadline: the deadline for this program is November 1st every year.

Merit Scholarship Based on the learning of Critical languages:

Many universities allows the scholarship to the students on the basis of learning certain critical language.

CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The US government has put effort in this program so that the American students enrolled in US colleges and universities would be able to learn any one language out of 15 different critical language.

For this purpose, a student is sent abroad for 8 to 10 weeks in order to promote a rapid language gain. This program includes intensive language instructions and structured cultural enrichment so that the student could gain experience.

Award: $2,000.

Jason Obrien

Jason is the Marketing Manager at a local advertising company in Australia. He moved to Australia 10 years back for his passion for advertising. Jason recently joined BFA as a volunteer writer and contributes by sharing his valuable experience and knowledge.

Summer vacation, the only chance we have in the whole year to follow our passions. It is the time; every kid and every adult is waiting for. No school, no work, only fun, and a lot of free time. The season, we spent the rest of the year working for.

But we can’t let the summer spoil us. Though the summer is a time for major R&R, it’s not a time to get out of shape. So, how to stay fit without a usual routine? Every problem has a solution. Given below are some options to keep active during summer vacation. You can also use them in your daily routine. They will prove to be helpful.

Make Water Your Best Friend

When summer starts, make your relationships good with water. Because it is the major thing going to help you in the whole season. And I don’t think it is going to be a great deal for you to drink a lot of water on the vacation. It won’t take your time.

About 60% of body mass is composed of fluids. These body fluids play roles in digestion, circulation, transportation of nutrients and maintenance of body temperature. Water balance and maintains these body fluids. It also helps boost the body’s metabolism. Avoid constipation and hydrates you.

So, always carry a water bottle along with you on vacation.

Focus on Eating Time

Summer vacations are to enjoy. No one is willing to be on a diet plan while on vacation. Eating is another type of enjoying life, as it is said: “Eat, Drink and be Merry”. So, if you are not focusing on your diet, try to focus on it. Eating at the right time has a great impact on your fitness.

The best timing for breakfast is 7 a.m. As for lunch, try to take it at 12:45 p.m. it is proving to be a great time for lunch. Your dinner should be before 7 p.m. and if you are working out, never do it with an empty stomach. It is not appreciated.

Even if you are not focusing on your diet, just make sure you are getting a few things regularly: proteins, fruit and vegetables, grains and dairy products.

Never Miss Swimming

Make swimming a vital part of your life. And try not to miss it in summers, especially if you are on a vacation.

Nearly all the muscles are in action during swimming, so it is an all-over body workout. Swimming burns 355 calories per half an hour which means you are going to have an ideal weight. Moreover, swimming is great for the heart, lungs and cardiovascular fitness.

Try This Cool Therapy To Boost Up Your Metabolism

Interested in fitness shortcut? You’re going to love this one, “The ice therapy for weight loss. Tim Ferriss was the one who increased its awareness. This one is fun to try and will chill the fat away. You will just have to cover the fatty area with an ice pack for thirty minutes and it will burn away hard to shift calories. Just like magic. It will also increase your metabolism.

In the Middle Of Nowhere?

Exercise delivers oxygen to your body and helps in the working of the cardiovascular system. It is a must for you to take at least 30 minutes of exercise.

Is no gym available on vacations? No problem. Download the best workout app on your mobiles and make this summer full of fitness.

Or try a DIY pyramid workout. For example 50 jumping jacks, 40 squats, 30 lungs, 20 sit-ups, and 10 burpees. Do it three times.

Conclusion

The reason to provide you this material was to make sure that you will take care of yourselves, even in the free time. Forgetting work doesn’t mean we should forget our health also. After all, life is the most precious thing, so no compromises on it.

Try one of my tips and stay fit.

Happy Sweating.

Jason Obrien

Jason is the Marketing Manager at a local advertising company in Australia. He moved to Australia 10 years back for his passion for advertising. Jason recently joined BFA as a volunteer writer and contributes by sharing his valuable experience and knowledge.

It is the time when emotional intelligence must be taken seriously. There are many negative effects of being low emotional intelligence. Leadership requires a high EQ. A leader who has control over his emotions have self-awareness and empathy for others is more efficient in the workplace. A person with low EQ can experience a lot of problems like negative thoughts, anger, shame, disappointments, lack of confidence.

There are some ways that can help us increase our emotional intelligence.

It is vital for all of us to pay attention to our emotional behavior in order to effectively overcome our life challenges.

Pay Attention to Your Communication Skills

Our speech has a great effect on our attitudes and emotions. The way we talk reflects our personality and thoughts. To control and overcome our emotions, we have to work on our communication.

Body language is most important in communication. Make eye contact with your listener. Give facial expressions, gestures and use the space.

Make yourself clear about the message you are going to convey, it will develop confidence in you. Stay on the message, and make sure the listeners or readers understand what you are saying.

Practice what you want to say and make your language simple.

Develop Self-Awareness

Self-awareness has a key role in enhancing leadership. A leader has to be aware of his performance and behavior to respond to the social environment. Self-awareness also gives strength to our communication skills. It improves our decision making. It is the key factor that enriches our emotional intelligence.

Ask others, what they say about you? Or ask your closest one to inform you whenever you overreact to something. Keep tracking your behaviors and emotions during the day and note what happened right before your response. Keep a record of the events or things that upset you. Be aware of yourself.

Self-Assessment

If you want to build up your emotional intelligence, self-assessment is really going to be a helping hand for you. To self-assess yourself, the first step is to collect the data about your happiness. Make a record of the timing when you are happy. Then observe how you react to people and stressful situations. Analyze how others will react to your actions and take responsibility for your action.

Self-Motivation

Emotional intelligence is enhanced when you motivate yourself. A self-motivated person becomes more initiative and improves his personal derives.

To motivate ourselves we can begin with small things like to think positively, make ourselves happy, listen to music, etc.

You should try to make your activities fun and divide your work into smaller units. Keep reminding yourself of the reason you are doing anything. Offer yourselves small breaks. Keep reminding yourself that you are no less and can achieve anything. Get motivation from others.

Grow Awareness About Others

Being aware of other’s feelings and mentality is really important. Its inability can lead to conflicts and many other problems. To be emotionally intelligent we have to be empathetic. Empathy helps build strong relationships with either its family or co-workers.

To be empathetic, you can communicate with others, ask about their interests. Try to understand their feelings. Note what makes them feel good. Put yourselves in others’ shoes to understand them completely. Notice how the response to stressing situations. Understand their beliefs and motivate them by their experiences.

Learn about their point of view and try to solve their problems.

Conclusion

In order to make our workplace happier and to better collaborate among employees, it is important to increase our emotional intelligence. By making ourselves aware of us and others and by making our communication more effective we can increase our emotional intelligence. Our high EQ will develop confidence and help us reduce our anxiety and stress.

Jason Obrien

Jason is the Marketing Manager at a local advertising company in Australia. He moved to Australia 10 years back for his passion for advertising. Jason recently joined BFA as a volunteer writer and contributes by sharing his valuable experience and knowledge.

Being an important part of a team for a long time means a lot to everyone. And the first most priority of an employee is to make his job secure. No one wants to be someone who can be easy to replace. After all its not a piece of cake to get a job nowadays. Especially the good one.

Great Tips to Be Irreplaceable on Workplace

So, to become irreplaceable, we have to put some effort. We have to invest. And we all know that we can do this only by making our manager happy. But how to do it. Let me give you some tips.

Build Better Relationships With Your Co-workers and Boss

The people you work with are a huge part of your life. Use your free time with your colleagues to build a relationship. Learn about their families, interests and try to solve their problems. When you deepen your workplace connections, you increase the likelihood that your name will come up first when a new opportunity arises.

The most important thing, be loyal to your boss and he will be loyal to you. Don’t let him have any complaints with you. Try to work according to his mood.

Do the Work that Matters Not the Work that is Easy

Your manager won’t be happy to know that you are missing the important task and keep doing things that are of no use to him. So, try to pick up a hard and crucial piece of work. Don’t ease yourself at the job. Otherwise, your boss will have an opportunity to fire you.

Go Beyond Your Boss’s Expectations

Impress your manager. Do a lot then he expects from you. Try to beat the deadlines from your boss. Let him think that you are always working. Reach the office before he has arrived and left for home after him.

Show Off Your Other Skills

The best way to keep your job is to prove you are valuable. Your former experiences can be great pathways to job stability. Whenever a new project starts to offer off all your skills and experiences and not just the one you were hired for.

Establish Your Own Professional Brand

It doesn’t matter if you are an advertising executive, an accountant, or a bank teller — you need to build your own brand. Keep your social media accounts up to date, start a blog or website about something that interests you, and always be mindful of how you portray yourself online because many employers check your social media accounts.

Solve Problems and Give Suggestions

Try to solve the problems. Don’t go and don’t let your co-workers go to the boss with every issue. Have the facts, understand the situation, and suggest solutions. Take the minor problems of the co-workers even if you don’t have any interest in it. This will improve your record and make a path for your job security as your name will come up first if a new opportunity arises.

Take Advantage of Educational Opportunity

Does your company offer an employee assistance program? Take the initiative and reach out to your human resources department or your supervisor and ask him or her to walk you through all the professional development opportunities available to you. Whether it’s a free workshop that will teach you computer coding or reimbursements for college tuition, many employers want to keep hardworking people. Show them you’re worth the investment and stay sharp for future opportunities.

Lead Your Team and Come Up with New Ideas

Lead your team. Bring out new perspectives that your boss will like. Take responsibilities, make commitments, and try to keep them. Be authentic and be confident. Try not to talk too much.

Work Initiative

Always be prepared for any kind of work. Try to volunteer as much as you can but give your first priority to your own work. You can make your boss happy by taking charge if someone else is not present. Never let go of any opportunity.

Be Reliable for Your Co-workers and Boss

Be confidential with your co-workers and don’t gossip about them. Be transparent and never play politics in the office. Give up all the facts even if the outcome will not be in your favor. Apologize and show gratitude.

Conclusion

So, we came to this conclusion that if you want yourselves irreplaceable at work, you should be loyal to your job, co-workers, and boss. You shouldn’t be the kind of person who says “This is not the part of my job”.

You have to prove your values to everyone. You have to convince others by your behavior that you are irreplaceable and that they will be in the loss by losing you.

Jason Obrien

Jason is the Marketing Manager at a local advertising company in Australia. He moved to Australia 10 years back for his passion for advertising. Jason recently joined BFA as a volunteer writer and contributes by sharing his valuable experience and knowledge.

The dissertation proposal in your academic career must be up to the mark for you to get the goods marks in your paper. Even though each document has a different structure in style in which it is represented, this is highly based on the type of research that you’re doing. The use of future continuous tense is very common while writing a dissertation proposal. It is important to know that every institution has different rules that a student has to follow.

There are different websites available that can help you make your dissertation paper up to the mark. If you are an expert in this field and have something to offer to help the students struggling to write their dissertation proposal, make your own brand website on which you can offer your services and earn a few bucks.

If you feel that writing your dissertation proposal can be a hard task for you because you’re already too busy with your other subjects, you can always hire a dissertation proposal writing service. All you have to do is to provide them the rules and requirements of the type of paper you want, and you will get the related services in a reasonable amount of time.

Your research proposal should contain a professional tone that can convey your insight effectively. The submitted paper should sound confident and should provide the required knowledge that can be counted as the highest possible academic standard.

What to Remember while Writing a Dissertation Proposal?

The dissertation proposal paper should have been very precise and appropriate. Your paper should be very arranged and accurate. The topic of your dissertation proposal should be interesting so that you take an interest in writing it.

Please do not pick a boring topic because it will not be a pleasant experience for you while you are right. As you know, a proposal is a small amount of paper that requires you to provide an insight into the problem and how you can solve it.

Make sure that you give the relevant theories and models. To give your paper an authentic look, provide appropriate methods, and use a suitable research methodology with a conclusion that sums up the whole document. 

Only by following and using the guidelines provided by your university, you will be able to write a very high-grade dissertation proposal. This proposal will surely help you get the goal scorer you have been aiming for.

Write your Proposal Ahead of Time

Depending on your class schedules, you may be asked to deliver your proposal ahead of schedule. It is essential to know that if there is a chance of anything wrong that can happen, it will definitely happen.

So if you hope you may have a little time to procrastinate. Do not procrastinate. If you want to attain good grades in your research paper, complete your paper before its due date. So this is why it is crucial to complete your paper on time.

What should be included in a Dissertation Proposal paper?

A dissertation proposal paper has a proper structure and outline that must be followed when you write a proposal paper. The primary step of writing a proposal is to investigate your subject thoroughly so that your paper is filled with subject-related information. Here is what should be included in your proposal.

Title page

On your title page, you will have to structure the first page of your proposal and give it a structure that has been required by your university. This standard structure design will help your paper appear arranged. When the title page is done, move on to the next page.

Introduction

The introduction of the paper design should always attract the attention of the readers. It should be precise and accurate. The introduction of your paper should have an insight into what is available in your paper.

Research context

Once you have done your research, make sure that your subject is apparent and precise. The context of the paper must convey the theme accurately.

Overview of the research

This section should describe how your outline will continue to benefit the existing data. It should provide a valuable portion of information to systematic and organized research. This section should show the importance of your work for future research.

Research questions

In this specific area, the review should contain the central aspect of your proposal. Always include the related and relevant research questions in your paper, along with answers to those questions.

Research methodology

This section is the most fundamental section of your paper. In this part of the research proposal, your paper should make your paper have a profound investigation, configuration, theory, information variety, research methods, and materials and techniques.

Literature reviews

You must include original and crucial research investigations in the field of study in order to prove that the topic you choose has been examined and studied extensively and in detail to distinguish major perspicacity, speculations, and structures.

References and links

All surveys depend on fundamental and complementary scientific resources. You must be the sources of writing and other data sources for overhead reviews.

Conclusion

If you think you cannot complete your dissertation paper, get help from a dissertation proposal writing service. With the help of proposal writing services and administration, you will get the suggestions and topic choices that will be according to the type of your research. The proposal can be changed and altered to different criteria according to your needs.

Make sure that your dissertation proposal has to be unique and plagiarism free. This proposal may be your only chance to impress your teachers by giving them a well-arranged proposal paper and leaving them in owe.

As we know that all universities in the world have a different set of rules according to the requirements for their proposal papers, you must follow the standards set by the university in order to achieve the goals that you have set for yourself.

Jason Obrien

Jason is the Marketing Manager at a local advertising company in Australia. He moved to Australia 10 years back for his passion for advertising. Jason recently joined BFA as a volunteer writer and contributes by sharing his valuable experience and knowledge.