The Japanese Government offers scholarships to foreign students who wish to study at Japanese universities. More than 79.000 students from various countries around the world have studied in Japan through the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship program. This scholarship program has been ongoing since 1954.

There are seven types of Japanese government-sponsored scholarships available under the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship program: those for research students, teacher training students, undergraduate university students, Japanese studies students, college of technology students, special training students and YLP students.

Applications are invited for 2 PhD studentship to work in the Centre of Signal and Image Processing on two different UM funded project entitled “- i) Action recognition using local and dynamic descriptor” and “ii) Linguistic summarisation of human action using pictorial structure.”

The post is on the university scale (MYR 18,000 – 28,800); and is open to all nationality. Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications. However, foreign candidates are required to have at least IELTS Band 6 or TOEFL 550 if their first degree is from a university where English is not the medium of instruction or pass an English proficiency test approved by the University.

ANNOUNCEMENT
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS TO FOREIGN STUDENTS TENABLE IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM FOR THE 2010/2011 ACADEMIC SESSION
With His Majesty`s consent, the Government of Brunei Darussalam is offering annual scholarships under a special scholarship award scheme, commencing in 2010/2011 academic session. The scholarships are offered for Bachelors, Masters, and Phd Degree Program.

Tenable in Brunei Darussalam, the aim of the Scholarship awards is to provide students, with the opportunity to study at Universiti Brunei Darussalam [UBD], Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali [UNISSA] and Institut Teknologi Brunei [ITB]. The academic year for UBD, UNISSA and ITB commences in July / August 2010.

Universiti Brunei Darussalam Doctoral Scholarships Programme 2009/2010

Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) is once again offering its prestigious Doctoral Scholarships Programme (UBD DSP) to enhance UBD`s ability to attract academically outstanding international PhD scholars, as part of its efforts to make the university a regional and international centre of excellence in research and higher education.

The UBD Doctoral Scholarships Programme is designed to attract world class doctoral students who are able to show a very high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences, business and economics, Malay/Brunei studies, language skills and communication, and education, by offering students financial assistance during their doctoral studies.

International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Saitama University. In this prospectus you will find all the necessary information about the program for prospective international students. The program offers excellent opportunities to highly qualified international students for pursuing graduate studies and research in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This program first started accepting students in 1992 and has since awarded Master’s and Doctorate Degrees to 268 students from 24 countries. Currently, we have 71 students from 14 countries enrolled in the program.

PhD Studentship, Equatorial Waves and Intra-seasonal Oscillations

Successful candidates will be affiliated to the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (SPMS) researching into Equatorial Waves and Intra-seasonal Oscillations.

Requirements

1. Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in meteorology, atmospheric science physics or mathematics from universities of good international standing.
2. Must possess good programming skill in Fortran and have experience with LINUX OS.

Other related research opportunities can be found at
http://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~sunshine/WeatherWeb/html/job.html.

Engineering Ph.D. Scholarship in Kochi University of Technology, Southern Japan

What is Special Scholarship Program (SSP)?
Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2003 in order to support the advanced research of the university by enlisting the help of highly capable international students. Every year in April and October, the university enrolls selected foreign doctoral students under specific research projects. The students pursue the doctoral course in English while at the same time assisting their host professor as a research assistant (RA). Through this program KUT wishes to expand and deepen international ties with academic and educational institutions all over the world.