New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships
Course(s) Offered: Priority fields
Course Level: Graduate (masters, PhD)
Provider: New Zealand Government
Country to Study in: New Zealand
Scholarship Description
As business office of the Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan (CSFP) programme, New Zealand offers the New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships for postgraduate report (Masters together with PhD) inward New Zealand universities to candidates from developing Commonwealth countries on a contestable basis.
The role of the scholarships is laid upward out inward the Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan, with the next fundamental principles to: 1). promote mutual cooperation together with part educational sense with all Commonwealth countries, 2). live on available across the Commonwealth, together with 3). recognise together with promote the highest degree of intellectual achievement.
The CSFP, established since 1959, is an international programme nether which fellow member governments offering scholarships together with fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships are highly competitive together with for piece of job yesteryear degree graduates.
Eligibility
Candidates must encounter all the scholarship eligibility criteria including:
Preferences:
Course(s) Offered: Priority fields
Course Level: Graduate (masters, PhD)
Provider: New Zealand Government
Country to Study in: New Zealand
Scholarship Description
As business office of the Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan (CSFP) programme, New Zealand offers the New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships for postgraduate report (Masters together with PhD) inward New Zealand universities to candidates from developing Commonwealth countries on a contestable basis.
The role of the scholarships is laid upward out inward the Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan, with the next fundamental principles to: 1). promote mutual cooperation together with part educational sense with all Commonwealth countries, 2). live on available across the Commonwealth, together with 3). recognise together with promote the highest degree of intellectual achievement.
The CSFP, established since 1959, is an international programme nether which fellow member governments offering scholarships together with fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships are highly competitive together with for piece of job yesteryear degree graduates.
Eligibility
Candidates must encounter all the scholarship eligibility criteria including:
- Be a minimum of eighteen years of historic menses at the fourth dimension of commencing your scholarship.
- Be a citizen of the reason from which y'all are applying for a scholarship together with accept resided inward that reason for at to the lowest degree the final 2 years.
- Agree to render to your dwelling reason for a minimum of 2 years on completion of the scholarship.
Preferences:
- Preference volition live on given to candidates who demonstrate strong academic ability, leadership qualities, together with a commitment to the evolution of their dwelling country.
- Preference is equally good given to candidates who are 39 years of historic menses or younger at the fourth dimension of commencing their scholarship.
- Preference volition live on given to candidates who utilise to report inward academic disciplines relating to priority sectors.
Eligible Countries include:
- Africa: Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
- Caribbeans: Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent together with the Grenadines
- Asia: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Pacific: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Commonwealth Scholarships scholars report at 1 of New Zealand's 10 universities or institutes of technology, at a Pacific university, at an English linguistic communication language grooming provider inward South East Asia, or through a grooming programme inward New Zealand.
It's of import to notice a third establishment that volition encounter your personal equally good equally academic needs. Each establishment specialises inward dissimilar subjects. For consummate details, reckon where y'all tin hand notice study.
Fields of study
Scholarships are offered for subjects inward priority sectors that are relevant to the evolution needs of your country. This is together with thence y'all tin hand notice contribute to making a existent together with positive deviation to your reason when y'all render dwelling at the terminate of your scholarship. The priority sectors are equally good where New Zealand has expertise. For consummate details, reckon what y'all tin hand notice study.
Sponsorship duration
The NZCS are available for the next postgraduate qualifications: Masters Degree (1 – 2 years) AND PhD (up to 3.5 years)
Method of Application
If y'all would similar to utilise for a New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship delight complaint the following: You may entirely utilise using the New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship Application shape equally a difficult copy. Please complaint that applicants are unable to utilise online. You must submit your application to your local Nominating Agency.
The next steps tin hand notice entirely live on completed in 1 lawsuit the online application portal opens on 1 Feb 2018.
Step 1: Prepare to apply
- Check that y'all encounter all eligibility criteria.
- Follow the steps nether 'Getting Started'. (The selection procedure is rattling competitive together with your pick of report must align to 1 of these sectors to become on to live on shortlisted.)
- If y'all desire to pursue a PhD or a Masters yesteryear Thesis y'all should equally good start contacting together with securing a potential supervisor for your PhD. You volition ask to accept a Letter of Support from a supervisor should y'all become on to live on shortlisted.
- Download together with impress the 2017 Application Form (Application Form for 2018 selection volition live on available to download hither when applications opened upward on 1 Feb 2018.). Additional copies may equally good live on available at your local nominating way (address found on the Application Form) or at selected New Zealand High Commissions.
- Complete all sections of the application form, together with brand certain y'all accept attached the additional documents required.
- Deliver to your country's nominating way yesteryear the deadline below. The nominating way volition review all applications received together with remove the 2 candidates that best encounter the eligibility conditions, preference factors together with priority sectors for their country. Note: whatever applications received straight from applicants volition non live on considered.
DEADLINES:
Applications opened upward 1 Feb together with must instruct inward at your country’s Commonwealth Nominating Agency yesteryear 28 March, 2018. [Please contact your local Nominating Agency for submission. Addresses are found on the Application shape y'all download.]
PLEASE NOTE:
The Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan (CSFP) was established at the starting fourth dimension Commonwealth instruction conference inward 1959 together with is reviewed yesteryear instruction ministers at their triennial meetings – the entirely scholarship system inward the globe to have such high-level recognition. Each Commonwealth authorities has designated a national way for the functioning of Commonwealth Scholarships.
The New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships is funded yesteryear the New Zealand Aid Programme together with managed yesteryear the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with Trade (MFAT). The selection procedure inward New Zealand is managed yesteryear Universities New Zealand.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2018
Open to International students: Yes
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: Commonwealth Scholarships for Developing Commonwealth Countries
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