ALA Success Story- Harits Masduqi

Harits Masduqi is a lecturer at English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang, East Java. Believing in ’Impossible Is Nothing’, he began his enduring career as a scholarship hunter in 1999. After two-year ill-fated efforts in applying numerous scholarships, he successfully got a master degree scholarship from DEPAG RI and studied at Postgraduate Program, Islamic University of Malang. During his thesis completion in 2003, Harits gave his ‘nothing to lose’ shot to apply for ADS (Australian Development Scholarship). This...

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Kuliah S3 Dengan beasiswa ALA- Harits Masduqi

Masih segar dalam ingatan ketika penulis menjawab pertanyaaan seorang teman dosen tentang apa yang dilakukan penulis setelah resmi bergelar Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris. Tanpa berpikir panjang, penulis langsung menjawab, ” Saya akan kuliah S-3 dengan beasiswa ALA ke Australia”. Sontak beberapa teman yang mendengar percakapan itu langsung tertawa dan salah satu nyletuk sambil bercanda, ” Ha...ha...ha...dengan Beasiswa ALA? Yang benar saja, mas. Jangankan dapat, nglamar saja sulit dan prosesnya rumit, online semua. Apalagi jurusan Mas banyak...

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Scholarship- written by Abd. Kadir ( Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya )

Scholarship What is a Scholarship? A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further his or her education. Scholarships are awarded based upon various criteria, which usually reflect the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award. Scholarship money is not required to be repaid. Why do they give A Scholarship? It's not often that people are willing to fork over thousands of dollars in cash to a complete stranger. So what possesses someone to give you (the stranger) money to attend...

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SHORT-TERM OVERSEAS TRAINING EXPERIENCE FOR SCHOLARSHIP HUNTERS

SHORT-TERM OVERSEAS TRAINING EXPERIENCE FOR SCHOLARSHIP HUNTERS by Esti Junining* *A Lecturer at the University of Brawijaya (UB) e-mail: ejunining@ub.ac.id The short-term overseas training experience in this paper is divided into three different destinies. Firstly, the short-term visit in the United Kingdom (2007), followed by degree training in Singapore (2011) and finally, accomplishing dissertation draft in the United States of America (2012). The scholarship hunting begins when the TPSDP project provides opportunities...

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Is TV an Effective Media to Build Your Children's Mind ?? Written by Andarwati Masruroh, Universitas Terbuka Surabaya

Andi..... Turn off your television and go to study now!” that sentence is not uncommon any more in our ears, isn’t it? It is often said by most mothers in our environment. Most of mothers often feel difficult to ask their sons or daughters to do their duty. Their children stand on wacthing television for some hours. It causes some mothers feel confused and worried about the development of their children’s minds. As we know that television is one of popular entertainment, communication, and education equipment in our daily life. With television,...

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Finally,The National English Seminar 2014 Has Concluded Successfully

If you have joined it, you will probably miss it to happend for the second time. The National English Seminar 2014 held by ESA lasted with an excellent mark. The Seminar on “Intenational Scholarship Programs- East Meets West; Cross Cultural Awareness of Scolarship Hunters” received a round of compliments from lecturers, especially Rector of Malang Islamic University, Prof. Surahmat, M.Si. The Seminar was conducted on December 21st, 2013 and was...

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