Australia Awards – Endeavour Postgraduate Awards

Build an international professional career and undertake your postgraduate study/research in Australia. Australia is home to leading international universities that produce cutting edge research in fields such as climate change, energy, environmental sciences, public health, and indigenous studies.

Endeavour Postgraduate Awards provide financial support (up to AUS$118,500 for Masters and AUS$228,500 for PhD) for high achieving American students to undertake a postgraduate qualification by coursework or research in any field of study in Australia.

Applications now open (closing on 30 June 2011) for Awards to commence in 2012.

Note – Applicants must have applied for and gained admission to a Masters or PhD program in Australia. Conditional letters of offer will be accepted at the time of application. The Australian academic year starts in February/March and the majority of Australian postgraduate courses do not require entrance exams, such as the GRE or GMAT.

The Endeavour Postgraduate Awards are funded by the Australian government.

Applications and further information are available at http://www.deewr.gov.au/International/EndeavourAwards/IntApp/Pages/PostgraduateAwards.aspx

Call for papers

IETC 2011
Istanbul University
Istanbul, TURKEY

“The International Educational Technology Conference (IETC)” series is an international educational activity for academics, teachers and educators. This conference is now a well known educational technology event and the number of paper submissions and attendees increase every year. It promotes the development and dissemination of theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional knowledge through conference activities, theconference proceeding book, and the Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (TOJET). Its focus is to create and disseminate knowledge about the use of instructional technology for learning and teaching in education.

The International Educational Technology Conference aims to diffuse the knowledge and researches among academicians and lead to development in educational technology and instructional technologies.

Last year, IETC-2010 received almost 700 applications. The conference academic advisory board accepted 470 appilications. This year IETC-2011 will be organized at Istanbul University between 25-27 May 2011.

In IETC 2010 we had lots of participants from 19 different countries. These countries were Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia,Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, United Arab Emirates and United States.

TOJET (in SSCI) will publish two special issues for IETC 2011. After peer-reviewing process, selected papers will be published in July 2011 and October 2011 issues.

We would like to invite you to share your experience and your papers with academicians, teachers and professionals.

Conference Language

The official languages of the conference are English and Turkish. Proposals can be sent and be presented in either language. Please, submit your proposal according to the following presentation category descriptions in www.iet-c.net .

Deadlines

Proposal & Abstract Submission Deadline:  Until May 16,  2011
Full Paper Submission : May 20,  2011
Registration: May 16, 2011

http://www.iet-c.net/callforpapers.php