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(Scholarship) British Council IELTS Scholarship 2010


British Council IELTS Scholarship 2010

 

The scholarship is offered by the British Council for Indian students planning to study at universities overseas. The British Council will select eight students from India, each of whom will receive an award of Rs 300,000 towards the cost of tuition fees

Application Procedure:

  • Take an IELTS test with the British Council and receive your scores.
  • Last date for completed applications is 31 July 2010. You must complete selection Task.
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(Event) Harvard Business School's (HBS) 2+2 Program

About HBS 2+2 Program:

  • Venue : Harvard Business School, Boston
  • By: Harvard Business School
  • Important Dates :  Deadline for Submission of Applications: June 15, 2010
  • Eligibility : Final Year UnderGraduate

Harvard Business School has opened the doors on an innovative new program for college juniors. It's called HBS 2+2: two years of work, then two years of immersion in the Harvard Business School MBA Program. In order to be eligible for the 2+2 Program you must be a current college junior ( i.e. completed pre-final year and entering final year for Indian Students) with at least one remaining semester, after July 2010, necessary for the completion of your degree. 

Students pursuing undergraduate degrees that are shorter or longer than 4 years are also eligible to apply. Students should apply the summer prior to their final year of study.

The HBS 2+2 Program application for the MBA class entering fall of 2013 consists of the following materials. All materials must be submitted online. Please assemble and prepare them to help us access your qualifications.


(IELTS 2010) Examination Dates of IELTS 2010 in India (Jan. - Dec. 2010)


Examination Dates of IELTS 2010 in India (Jan. - Dec. 2010)


(Tips) Tips To improve your IELTS Performance


Tips To improve your IELTS Performance

LISTENING

  1. Read instructions carefully, don’t just glance at them. They are not always the same as in practise or previous tests.
  2. Often the speaker will give you an answer and then correct themselves-watch out for this. It’s a common trick.
  3. Try and anticipate what the speaker will say. This requires concentration-easy in your own language, but more difficult in English.
  4. Remember if you want a high score you should aim to get all questions in parts one and two correct. Don’t make any careless mistakes in the easier sections.
  5. Although there are not that many IELTS books on the market other Cambridge exam preparation materials can provide valuable practise such as FCE and CAE preparation books.
  6. Small errors can lead to low score such as spelling, omitting 's' or incomplete times.
  7. Don’t  panic if you think the topic is too difficult or the speaker is too fast. Relax and tune in.
  8. Read, write and listen at the same time. Tricky but practise!!
  9. Don’t leave blanks, you might as well guess you won’t be penalised.

(Pattern) IELTS Test Information And Test sample


IELTS Test Information And Test sample

1. Academic Reading sample

The Academic Reading test is 60 minutes long. It has three sections with 40 questions to answer. Below is a sample of one section. (Note that candidates for the Academic module do a different Reading test to the General Training module.)

Wind Power in the US

Prompted by the oil crises of the 1970s, a wind-power industry flourished briefly in the United States. But then world oil prices dropped, and funding for research into renewable energy was cut. By the mid 1980s US interest in wind energy as a large-scale source of energy had almost disappeared. The development of wind power at this time suffered not only from badly designed equipment, but also from poor long-term planning, economic projections that were too optimistic and the difficulty of finding suitable locations for the wind turbines.

Only now are technological advances beginning to offer hope that wind power will come to be accepted as a reliable and important source of electricity. There have been significant successes in California, in particular, where wind farms now have a capacity of 1500 megawatts, comparable to a large nuclear or fossil-fuelled power station, and produce 1.5 per cent of the state's electricity.

Nevertheless, in the U.S., the image of wind power is still distorted by early failures. One of the most persistent criticisms is that wind power is not a significant energy resource. Researchers at the Battelle Northwest Laboratory, however, estimate that today wind turbine technology could supply 20 per cent of the electrical power the country needs. As a local resource, wind power has even greater potential. Minnesota's energy commission calculates that a wind farm on one of the state's south western ridges could supply almost all that state's electricity. North Dakota alone has enough sites suitable for wind farms to supply more than a third of all electricity consumed in the continental US.

The prevailing notion that wind power is too costly results largely from early research which focused on turbines with huge blades that stood hundreds of metres tall. These machines were not designed for ease of production or maintenance, and they were enormously expensive. Because the major factors influencing the overall cost of wind power are the cost of the turbine and its supporting systems, including land, as well as operating and maintenance costs, it is hardly surprising that it was thought at the time that wind energy could not be supplied at a commercially competitive price. More recent developments such as those seen on California wind farms have dramatically changed the economic picture for wind energy. These systems, like installations in Hawaii and several European countries, have benefited from the economies of scale that come through standardised manufacturing and purchasing. The result has been a dramatic drop in capital costs: the installed cost of new wind turbines stood at $1000 per kilowatt in 1993, down from about $4000 per kilowatt in 1980, and continues to fall. Design improvements and more efficient maintenance programs for large numbers of turbines have reduced operating costs as well. The cost of electricity delivered by wind farm turbines has decreased from about 30 cents per kilowatt-hour to between 7 and 9 cents, which is generally less than the cost of electricity from conventional power stations. Reliability has also improved dramatically. The latest turbines run more than 95 per cent of the time, compared with around 60 per cent in the early 1980s. Another misconception is that improved designs are needed to make wind power feasible. Out of the numerous wind turbine designs proposed or built by inventors or developers, the propeller-blade type, which is based on detailed analytical models as well as extensive experimental data, has emerged as predominant among the more than 20,000 machines now in commercial operation world-wide. Like the gas-driven turbines that power jet aircraft, these are sophisticated pieces of rotating machinery. They are already highly efficient, and there is no reason to believe that other configurations will produce major benefits. Like other ways of generating electricity, wind power does not leave the environment entirely unharmed. There are many potential problems, ranging from interference with telecommunications to impact on wildlife and natural habitats. But these effects must be balanced against those associated with other forms of electricity generation. Conventional power stations impose hidden costs on society, such as the control of air pollution, the management of nuclear waste and global warming. As wind power has been ignored in the US over the past few years, expertise and commercial exploitation in the field have shifted to Europe. The European Union spends 10 times as much as the US government on research and development of wind energy. It estimates that at least 10 per cent of Europe's electrical power could be supplied by land-based wind-turbines using current technology. Indeed, according to the American Wind Energy Association, an independent organisation based in Washington, Denmark, Britain, Spain and the Netherlands will each surpass the US in the generating capacity of wind turbines installed during the rest of the decade.

Glossary

fossil fuel: coal, oil and natural gas kilowatt: 1,000 watts; a watt is a unit of power kilowatt-hour: one kilowatt for a period of one hour megawatt: one million watts wind farm: a group of wind turbines in one location producing a large amount of electricity wind turbine: a machine which produces energy when the wind turns its blades

Questions 1 - 5

Complete the summary below using words from the box. Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.

(Info) List of IELTS Test Centre in India

List of IELTS Test Centre in India

IELTS has more than 500 test centres in over 120 countries. You can search for your nearest test centre by country and territories, and city. To find out upcoming test dates and the test fee, click on More Information under each city address.

India
Ahmedabad
British Council - Ahmedabad
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Ahmedabad
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Ahmedabad
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Amritsar
British Council - Amritsar
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Amritsar
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Amritsar
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Bangalore
British Council - Bangalore
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Bangalore
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Bangalore
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Baroda
British Council - Baroda
Next Test Date: 08-May-2010
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India
Baroda
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Baroda
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India
Bhopal
British Council - Bhopal
Next Test Date: 08-May-2010
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India
Bhopal
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Bhopal
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India
Bhubaneswar
British Council - Bhubaneswar
Next Test Date: 08-May-2010
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India
Calicut
British Council - Calicut
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Calicut
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Calicut
Next Test Date: 05-Jun-2010
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India
Chandigarh
British Council - Chandigarh
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Chandigarh
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Chandigarh
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Chennai
British Council - Chennai
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Chennai
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Chennai
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Coimbatore
British Council - Coimbatore
Next Test Date: 08-May-2010
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India
Coimbatore
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Coimbatore
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Dehradun
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Dehradun
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Gurgaon
British Council - Gurgaon
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India
Guwahati
British Council - Guwahati
Next Test Date: 26-Jun-2010
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India
Hyderabad
British Council - Hyderabad
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Hyderabad
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Hyderabad
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Indore
British Council - Indore
Next Test Date: 17-Apr-2010
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India
Indore
IDP: IELTS Australia & Planet Edu - Indore
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India
Jaipur
British Council - Jaipur
Next Test Date: 08-May-2010
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(Scholarship) DAAD-Scholarship Programme (German Academic Exchange Service) for 2009-10

DAAD-Scholarship Programme (German Academic Exchange Service) for 2009-10

“Postgraduate Degree Courses with Relevance to Developing Countries”
Academic Year 2009/2010

Applications should be submitted to the following*:
- the German Embassy no later than August 31, 2008.

In general applicants should not be older than 36 years of age at the time of the submission of their application.

For further information:
Mrs. Susanne Lenz (DAAD-lecturer at UP Diliman) – Susanne. Lenz [at]gmx.net
Ms. Davina Dy (Cultural Section, German Embassy Manila) – pr-1000[at]mani.diplo.de

The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst / German Academic Exchange Service) is one of the world’s largest and most respected intermediary organisations in its field. Scores of students, teachers, researchers and scientists supported by the DAAD have been able to gain valuable experience abroad.

The 200 and more programmes with which the DAAD range from short-term exchanges for research or teaching purposes through to doctoral scholarships lasting several years for graduates from developing countries, from information visits by delegations of foreign university vice chancellors through to the long term regional programmes conceived to establish efficient higher education systems in Developing Countries. www.daad.de

The postgraduate degree courses in Germany with relevance to developing countries aim to qualify junior experts and executives from developing countries in fields such as trade, business and administration.

These postgraduate degree courses offer career-based and practice-oriented initial and continuing training. Their content focuses on key development policy questions and they stand out by delivering practice relevant know-how. The typical scholarship holder will come either from a public authority or state or private company in a developing country and as such be engaged in the planning and execution of directives and projects with em

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(2) Employee
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(4) Union
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(News) Singapore, Hong Kong favoured destinations for MBA aspirants

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(Download) Free IELTS eBooks/Audio/Video Download Links

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(Tips) TIPS on taking IELTS Examination

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