{"id":9897,"date":"2018-03-21T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2018-03-21T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:03:59","slug":"british-council-awards-100-women-masters-scholarships-to-thank-india-for-70-inspiring-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=9897","title":{"rendered":"British Council awards 100 women Master\u2019s Scholarships to thank India for 70 inspiring years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/South-India-awardees.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9898 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/South-India-awardees.jpg\" alt=\"South India awardees\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/South-India-awardees.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/South-India-awardees-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>100 Indian women awarded scholarships at 44 British universities <\/em><em>as part of 70 year celebrations in India<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai 19<sup>th<\/sup> March , 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>100 Indian women have been awarded British Council 70th Anniversary Scholarships to mark the organisation\u2019s 70th anniversary in India.\u00a0 The 70th Anniversary Scholarships, which are the first British Council scholarship programme solely for women, cover tuition fees for a one-year Master\u2019s course in science, technology, engineering or mathematics during the 2018-19 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The investment in women scholars supports Prime Minister Modi\u2019s shift to women-led development and the British Council\u2019s own focus on women and girls and Sustainable Development Goal 5.\u00a0 It is also part of the organisation\u2019s drive to partner the economic growth and knowledge ambitions of States across India. The programme, worth almost INR 18 crore, is the organisation\u2019s largest investment in a scholarship programme in India.<\/p>\n<p>The 100 scholars will be attending 44 British universities in all corners of the country including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.The UK is a global leader in quality research and the scholarships will offer the women the chance to work in world-class research environments and collaborate in international research teams.<\/p>\n<p>The British Council\u2019s 70<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Scholars have been selected from across India: 44 from South India, 21 from North India, 20 from West India, 9 from East India, and 6 from Northeast India. 55 of the candidates are from Tier I metro cities and 45 belong to Tier 2 and 3 cities and districts.\u00a0 Scholars will be studying subjects STEM fields including:\u00a0 32 in computer sciences; 27 in biological sciences; 12 each in engineering and physical sciences.\u00a0 Other subjects include\u00a0 technology, maths and medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Indian women awarded scholarships at 44 British universities as part of 70 year celebrations in India Chennai 19th March , 2018:\u00a0100 Indian women have been awarded British Council 70th Anniversary Scholarships to mark the organisation\u2019s 70th anniversary in India.\u00a0 The 70th Anniversary Scholarships, which are the first British Council scholarship programme solely for women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}