[nfbwatlk] Master's scholarship for people w/disabilities

[Joanne Laurent]

Date: 4/19/2010 
Subject: Call for Applications: Scholarship Opportunity for Master's Degree
in Public Policy 
Call for Applications: The Nippon Foundation will provide full scholarship
including tuitions, living allowance, required assistive technology and
other support services, to a small group of individuals with disabilities to
pursue graduate studies (Master's level) in Public Policy offered by Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY-SPP), National University of
Singapore, beginning in September 2010 as part of the establishment of the
Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) in the ASEAN region. The
applications deadline for this scholarship program is April 30, 2010.

The aim of the IDPP is to serve as a regional resource to both public and
private sectors in fostering public policies to the overall vision of an
ASEAN Region that is inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based, where people
who are disabled are leaders in the determination of their own destinies.

The IDPP steering committee is currently recruiting a small number of
candidates, within a three year period, with 1) Deafness, 2) Blindness, or
3) Mobility impairments, to serve as a human resource cadre to the
establishment of IDPP and conduct research on disability and public policy
in the ASEAN region. The committee seeks for persons with disabilities
meeting the five criteria below:

(1) A talented and motivated individual with demonstrated leadership
experience within an organization of/for disabled persons or other
marginalized individuals in their own country.

(2) A commitment to achieving positive change for disabled persons through
the development of proactive public policies within the ASEAN region.

(3) ICT skills to communicate for distant education and schooling.

(4) Commitment to cooperate with the IDPP Steering Committee after
completing a Master's degree in Public Policy.

(5) A person with the academic requirements and experiential background to
meet the entrance requirement of a Master's degree program in Public Policy
such as that offered by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY-SPP),
National University of Singapore. More information about the LKY-SPP can be
found at: http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/Master_Public_Policy.aspx.

In the meantime, we are already in contact with Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy (LKY-SPP) of National University of Singapore and we will soon
be exploring programs at other universities in the region for the
establishment of the IDPP

IDPP will be developed over five years and the program will be offered in a
virtual manner in the future, so that talented leaders with disability are
able to obtain an advanced degree in Public Policy in home countries. Also,
we anticipate the feasibility of developing an Institute on Disability and
Public Policy (IDPP) that will serve the ASEAN region but whose scope of
work might well reach beyond ASEAN in the future. We would like the selected
candidates to cooperate with the realization of t he Institute.

The application deadline is April 30, 2010. For further information and
inquiries about the scholarship program and application process, please
contact IDPP Secretariat/Project Office at IDPP at apcdfoundation.org.

Any application-related inquiries and materials should be submitted to the
IDPP Secretariat/Project Office located at the APCD headquarters in
Thailand:

Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability
IDPP Secretariat/Project Office

Application for IDPP Program
APCD Building
255 Rajvithi Road, Rajthevi
Bangkok, 10400 Thailand
Tel: (66) 2354-7505
Fax: (66) 2354-7507
Email: IDPP at apcdfoundation.org

http://apcdfoundation.org/?q=content/call-applications-scholarship-opportuni
ty-master%E2%80%99s-degree-public-policy
 
Joanne Laurent 
Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
If you can't learn it, I'm not teaching it right!
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P.O. Box 586 Ariel, WA 98603
(360) 231-4597 
 
 
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