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FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY – SPEECH CONTEST 2007 – UCR IEP SCHOLARSHIP FOR WINNER

International Education Programs  at UCR awards an annual scholarship for the winner of the Eastern Hiroshima Prefectural High School English Speech Contest sponsored by Fukuyama University.

This year Ms. Kyoko Takigawa from Fukuyama Akenohoshi Girls' High School won the UCR scholarship.   “This speech contest has become popular among the neighboring high schools. The scholarship that UCR has kindly been offering to the speech contest is an excellent prize that encourages high school students to make efforts to brush up on English,” says Kenji Akasaki, Professor  and Chairman, Committee for International Exchange at Fukuyama University.

Staff and teachers at UCR IEP have always found the winners of this speech contest to be intelligent, motivated and delightful representatives of the youth of Japan.  Charlene Pratt, Interim Director of IEP states that “Students studying abroad must be flexible and open to new ideas and cultures and, in our experience, winners of the Eastern Hiroshima Prefectural High School English Speech Contest are exactly that.”  IEP looks forward to welcoming Ms. Kyoko Takigawa to UCR during the summer 2008.  

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