{"id":259848,"date":"2017-09-01T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/uncategorized\/boc-scholarship-encourages-women-to-consider-careers-in-economics-and-finance\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:10:20","slug":"boc-scholarship-encourages-women-to-consider-careers-in-economics-and-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/industry-news\/boc-scholarship-encourages-women-to-consider-careers-in-economics-and-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"BoC scholarship encourages women to consider careers in economics and finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Bank of Canada (BoC) is now accepting applications for its inaugural Master&#8217;s Scholarship Award for Women in Economics and Finance, the central bank announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> The scholarship, which will award $10,000 to eligible women pursuing a master&#8217;s degree in economics or finance at a Canadian university, is &#8220;designed to attract and advance women in core areas of the bank where they are under-represented,&#8221; the BoC says in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p> In addition to the scholarship, the award &#8220;will be combined with an offer of permanent employment at the bank upon successful completion of their degree,&#8221; the BoC adds.<\/p>\n<p> The work-placement opportunities will be determined based on the recipient&#8217;s field of study.<\/p>\n<p> The central bank will award up to five scholarships to qualified candidates. The deadline for applications is Oct. 9. Recipients of the awards will be notified within four months.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award will be combined with an offer of permanent employment at the central bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2318],"tags":[2734,2652],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259848"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=259848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}