QS Quacquarelli Symonds is dedicated to encouraging talented individuals to benefit from an international higher education and, to this end, has for many years provided funds towards educational scholarships for young people.
QS Education Trust - birth of a non-profit movement for international education advancement
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is dedicated to encouraging talented individuals to benefit from an international higher education and, to this end, has for many years provided funds towards educational scholarships for young people.
To formalize this charitable commitment, in 2005, QS founded QS Education Trust - a non-profit trust company - with a prime objective of providing a conduit for these scholarships and with the mission of becoming the world’s largest independent community-based provider of postgraduate scholarships:
QS Education Trust
QS pivotal role in bringing together officers from universities, graduate and business schools, government and NGOs from around the world makes it uniquely placed to foster an international education community with a global outlook and to encourage the provision of merit based scholarships, with a special focus on candidates from emerging markets.
All QS APPLE delegate fees are paid to QS Education Trust. Each year any surplus revenues are reserved for scholarships for students entering higher education outside their home country.
The organising committee of QS APPLE is developing a role in the selection of the winners.
Over the last four years 24 individuals from all over the world have benefited from these scholarships – 8 from Asia, 3 from Latin America, 8 from Europe and 5 from North America – to support their study at prestigious institutions such as Columbia, Stanford, IESE, University of Navarra, Universita Luigi Bocconi, Cambridge and others.
QS Education Trust scholarship scheme is independent and free of any political allegiances, though we work closely with government ministries throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. The scheme is community-based because any university can offer full or partial scholarships through QS Education Trust. The only condition is that the institution should travel on the QS World Grad School Tour or QS World MBA Tour, so that we can raise awareness through our in-country advertising and promotional campaigns.
Schools already offering scholarships through the QS Education Trust community include:
A new set of business school scholarships, launched with awards worth around US$1.3 million in 2006, drew its first winners from countries as diverse as China, Malaysia, Turkey, Chile, Italy and the USA. The scholarships, available through the QS World MBA Tour, the largest international programme of business school information events, include awards from QS for Leadership and Community Involvement.
The 2006 winner of the QS US$10,000 scholarship for Leadership was Tiffany Kanaga, a US citizen who attended the QS World MBA Tour Fair in London and who is now studying at Columbia Business School.
The five winners of QS US$2,000 scholarships for Community Involvement in 2006 were:
“QS Scholarship winners are united by their demonstration of responsible leadership and community commitment, in very varied circumstances,” says Nunzio Quacquarelli, managing director of QS. “All of these young people have done something remarkable in their lives. Take, for example, Eduardo Olivares who worked as a counsellor in Chile helping people to escape severe poverty by setting up their own small businesses, and Yue Tu who cycled more than 2,500 miles across China to raise money for charity.”
Also in 2006, the QS World Grad School Tour promoted a US$10,000 Scholarship for Innovation which will be awarded in June 2007.
In 2007, QS Education Trust committed US$10,000 to a growing fund for underprivileged children and education related projects in Asia and is also working in partnership with it.
Vertu Et Devoir was formed by former students of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Secondary School in Singapore, an all-girls school founded by the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Order (CIHJ) established in 1662 in France. Nuns and other religious and lay persons associated with the order have been involved in the education of children and the operation of orphanages around the world.
Vertu Et Devoir is non-aligned and non-denominational. It supports underprivileged children and education related projects and institutions, commencing with projects in Asia and, thereafter, other parts of the world. Vertu Et Devoir is managed by volunteers working to raise funds from educational institutions, corporations and individuals and offering these funds to groups working in education and with children.
QS will regularly publicize the work of Vertu Et Devoir and its supporters through its products. In return for a donation of US$2,000.00 or more, QS will publicize your support for Vertu Et Devoir and its work by displaying your institution’s logo in a special area of the following:
Donations should be sent in as early as possible to take full advantage of QS
marketing activities.
Additional information on Vertu Et Devoir is available upon request from
Mandy Mok - mm@qsnetwork.com - to whom pledges of donations should be sent.
Wider objectives for Asian international education advancement
As well as its current priorities in Conference organisation, Scholarships and the VEDF project, further Asia-focused objectives of this community are to: