BURMESE REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNC

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Subject: BURMESE REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT


OSI: BURMESE REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
November 21, 1995
from : christin@xxxxxxxxxx
BURMESE REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

	The Burmese Refugee Scholarship Program, funded by the 
United States Information Agency (USIA) under a Congressional mandate,
brings Burmese refugees to the United States from India and Thailand for
two years of further study and training.  For the 1995-98 period, USIA has
engaged Indiana University to administer the Program, which is intended 
to assist students and professionals of Burmese nationality whose studies
and/or careers were interrupted by the political turmoil and events of
1988 in Burma.  The Program will provide a total of six USIA scholarship
grants for two years of study and training in the United States, beginning
in 1996.

	To be eligible to apply for a scholarship grant, interested individuals
must be recognized refugees and have been matriculated students at universities
in Burma prior to the summer of 1988.  Applications and further information
may be obtained from the addresses given below as of mid-November.  On
behalf of Indiana University, this year's USIA Burmese Refugee Scholarship
Program competition will be coordinated by the Open Society Institute (OSI),
a Soros Foundation affiliate with considerable experience in assisting refugee
students from Burma who are now in India, Thailand, and the United States.
The deadline for applying for the scholarship is January 1, 1996; screening
and selection of candidates for the scholarships will take place between
January and March 1996.

	After the candidates selected to receive scholarships have been 
brought to the United States, Indiana University will be responsible for
providing them with a program of pre-academic orientation and advisement,
language and study skills testing and enhancement, and assistance with
placement in an appropriate institution of higher education for further 
study or training.  It will also be responsible for monitoring each grantee's
progress and fulfillment of the terms of his or her scholarship.

FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION, PLEASE
CONTACT:

IN INDIA:
The Director, Education Resources Centre
D-41, Sujan Singh Park
New Delhi - 110 003
tel: 469-4582
fax: 461-0520

IN THAILAND:
Dr. Christina Fink
BurmaNet
PO Box 93
Mae Sot, Tak, 63110
tel: 55-532-797
e-mail: christin@xxxxxxxxxx

or you may pick up an application at:

Burma Issues
1/11 Soi Piphat 2, Convent Road
Bangkok

Jesuit Refugee Services
22 Soi Aree Sampan 9, Paholyothin 5
Bangkok

Burmese Relief Centre
Chiang Mai

PLEASE DO NOT CALL BURMA ISSUES, JRS, OR BRC FOR INFORMATION 
REGARDING THE APPLICATIONS OR THE APPLICATION PROCESS!