UNRWA provided 55 scholarships under the emergency appeal and an individual donor supported another 19 scholarships for special hardship cases in Jordan.

Scholarships for students (of a social character and for results in studies) cannot exceed 90 per cent of the lowest basic income of an assistant.

Following the freeze on the regular budget allocation for university scholarships in August 1997 (see para. 4), the entire scholarship programme was funded through project contributions.

donated all the prize money he has received from the Lv Zhihe Award and the Sustaining Development Award of HK 20 million to the Tsinghua University Education Foundation.

In 1989, the Government of Japan contributed 1 million to the UNRWA university scholarship programme for secondary school graduates.

The status and preferred role of young girls are defined in accordance with custom.

Additional project contributions would be required to sustain the programme in future years, particularly for the 315 recipients who were in the midst of their studies.

The above enumerated grants and scholarships are awarded to men and women on an equitable basis.

University scholarships

4. The Government of Switzerland contributed 1,703,581 between 1989 and 1996 to the UNRWA university scholarships programme for secondary school graduates, and contributed an additional 338,000 to the programme in 1997.

Scholarships

d) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants

The Government of Japan also contributed to the same scholarship programme an additional amount of 400,000 in each of the years 1992, 1993 and 1994, 500,000 in 1995 and 600,000 in each of the years 1996 and 1997, to be spent over a five year period. Of the students funded by these contributions, 494 were still pursuing their studies in the 1997 1998 academic year, while 77 graduated between 1995 and 1997.

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University scholarships.

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206. University scholarships.

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137. University scholarships.

158. University scholarships.

173. University scholarships.

189. University scholarships.

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For study within Panama, more women than men receive scholarships at all educational levels for study abroad, men are in the majority.

333. School and university students are given material help in the form of scholarships (social and for good academic results), extra allocations for accommodation costs and meals at a canteen, benefits and compassionate allowances.

The increase of 145 scholarships over the 1995 96 school year resulted from additional project contributions to the programme.

7. University scholarship holders, by faculty, country of study and

(d ) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants

The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants.

(d) the same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants

(ii) Provision of university scholarships

The scholarships funded by this contribution, which was to be spent over a five year period, went to 162 Palestine refugee students from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The balance of the contribution was used to grant 19 new scholarships, while one additional scholarship was funded by savings resulting from students who did not complete the programme and early graduations of scholars in the previous year.

Social scholarships

Pupils receiving scholarships

The major part of the 1997 contribution was used to cover the 1997 1998 awards for 315 students whose scholarships were hitherto funded by the UNRWA General Fund and were frozen for 1997 1998 due to the financial problems UNRWA faced.

The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation has extended eligibility for its bursaries and scholarships to individuals considered to be protected persons such as Convention refugees.

In cases of proven high scores or material difficulties of the pupils the State grants them stipends.

84. The occupational workshops are funded by the following sources (a) contributions by firms (b) fees paid by users (c) scholarships granted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and funded by the National Employment Fund.

Full time Part time Scholarships

Every year, Russia provides over 700 State funded scholarships.

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527. A student can obtain the following forms of support a social scholarship (grant), a grant for good course results, a Minister apos s grant for exceptionally good results, partial coverage of the costs of living in a student hall and eating in a student canteen, and a single extraordinary hardship benefit.