Financial assistance from the local Board of Guardians provided him with the opportunity to continue studying for his Higher School Certificate, a prerequisite qualification for entrance into university.
Education is crucial: recent research shows that those who earn the basic school-leaving certificate are six times less likely to commit a crime than those who do not.
Widad, a 25-year-old secretary of Algerian origin, notes that when she was a schoolchild in Les Yvelines, in the Paris suburbs, four-fifths of her class were North African and only a handful went on to study for the baccalaureate, the school-leaving certificate that is the essential passport to a university or a reasonable job.
The school tailored a similar certificate for employees of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
These fellowships, tenable in a selected number of universities in the Czech Republic, are open to secondary school leavers holding a recognized certificate.
Sengupta was found to have forged documents including a birth certificate, college and law school diplomas, reference letters and even a law school transcript.
Colorado native Joe Curnow, a junior in Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, is joining 17 other students for a trip to Des Moines sponsored by the School of Education's Service Learning Certificate Program.
He earned his MBA at San Diego State University and completed certificate programs at the Harvard Business School.
Deloitte LLP paired up with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business last November to offer a certificate in business analytics to its midlevel employees.
High school junior and seniors can enroll and complete the first year of a technical program, graduate high school with a diploma along with a one year certificate.
The NCRC certificate is designed to show employers that high school graduates have the necessary skills to succeed in the workplace.
Last month, the program created a partnership with the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University to offer each inmate who completes the program a certificate in entrepreneurship.
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At the foundation, our goal is to dramatically increase the number of young people who graduate high school ready for college and career and who go on to complete a postsecondary degree or certificate.
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