{"id":114686,"date":"2018-07-19T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114686"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:02:31","slug":"new-set-of-laspau-scholarships-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/new-set-of-laspau-scholarships-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New set of LASPAU scholarships in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-114660\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Laspau-logo-300x68.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" \/>A new round of scholarships have been announced by the Inicia Educaci\u00f3n non-profit for programs at the Masters level on issues relating to education. The scholarships include just about everything &#8212; tuition, room and board, travel, books, and even medical insurance. Applicants must be Dominicans and reside in the Dominican Republic. Applications are to be made through the LASPAU website.<\/p>\n<p>A score of at least 80 on the Internet version of the TOEFL exam is also required together with a commitment to return to the country for at least two years after the studies are completed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the idea is that the scholarship recipients become part of the Dominican educational system and create a network of new talent and bring new ideas to the system.<\/p>\n<p>Already some 22 Dominicans have taken part in this program, and have studied at such well-known universities as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Duke and the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/educacion\/inicia-educacion-convoca-a-interesados-para-cursar-becas-para-maestrias-EF10376561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19 July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new round of scholarships have been announced by the Inicia Educaci\u00f3n non-profit for programs at the Masters level on issues relating to education. The scholarships include just about everything &#8212; tuition, room and board, travel, books, and even medical insurance. Applicants must be Dominicans and reside in the Dominican Republic. Applications are to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/new-set-of-laspau-scholarships-in-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}