Julia Lampam
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UCL
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Announcing the Establishment of the UCL Wiley Scholarship in Publishing
Chichester, U.K., March 10, 2008 — Steve Smith, Senior Vice President, Europe and International Development, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, and Professor Iain Stevenson, Professor of Publishing , UCL (University College London), announced today the establishment of the UCL Wiley Scholarship. The award will be granted to an outstanding student for the MA in Publishing programme at the UCL Centre for Publishing.
The successful candidate will be selected through an interview process by Wiley and UCL representatives. The UCL Wiley Scholarship will begin in September 2008 and will cover full tuition fees for the one year course and an internship at Wiley in the UK. The closing date for the entries is 31st March 2008.
"Wiley is proud to sponsor an annual scholarship with UCL’s Centre for Publishing ," said Steve Smith. "In a time when our industry is changing rapidly we see this as another way that Wiley can invest in the development of much-needed talent that will help shape the course of publishing in the years ahead."
"We are delighted that Wiley are generously supporting our MA programme with a prestigious scholarship," said Professor Iain Stevenson. "Since the MA course was established we have worked closely with our partners in the publishing industry to produce graduates who have the skills and knowledge to enable them to succeed in a global, fast-changing industry. Wiley's support acknowledges our central role in shaping the publishers of the future."
About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for 200 years; helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Since 1901, Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 350 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.
Our core businesses publish scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company’s Web site can be accessed at www.wiley.com, and its online visitors' forum can be accessed at www.wiley.com/go/livinghistory. Wiley is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.
About UCL
Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. In the government’s most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 UCL departments achieved top ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international excellence.
UCL is in the top ten world universities in the 2007 THES-QS World University Rankings, and the fourth-ranked UK university in the 2007 league table of the top 500 world universities produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UCL alumni include Marie Stopes, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay.
