PTDF Split PhD Program
Course(s) Offered: Any
Course Level: Postgraduate (doctoral)
Provider: Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
Country to Study in: Any province (Nigeria, Overseas)
Scholarship Description
The Split PhD is a type of PHD programme which allows an private to dissever their interrogation fourth dimension betwixt a unusual establishment together with an establishment inwards the habitation province where they alive together with work. It is role of its 2012/2013 PTDF SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME.
Eligibility Criteria
Important features of the Program:
Course(s) Offered: Any
Course Level: Postgraduate (doctoral)
Provider: Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
Country to Study in: Any province (Nigeria, Overseas)
Scholarship Description
The Split PhD is a type of PHD programme which allows an private to dissever their interrogation fourth dimension betwixt a unusual establishment together with an establishment inwards the habitation province where they alive together with work. It is role of its 2012/2013 PTDF SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME.
Eligibility Criteria
Important features of the Program:
- Split PhD Scholarships volition endure available from the 2012/2013 academic session;
- The PhD qualification volition endure every bit agreed past times the Foreign University (either a dual certification or an accolade of the Foreign or Nigerian University);
- The scholarship provides for candidates to undertake their PhD partly inwards Nigeria together with partly Overseas together with to endure supervised past times a Nigerian supervisor together with a unusual co-supervisor;
- The stream of residence at the unusual University volition usually endure a maximum of i tertiary (1/3) of the PhD (ie a maximum of 1 twelvemonth based on the maximum allowable stream to completion of written report of 3 years) together with this stream volition usually include the minute role of the foremost twelvemonth of the PhD programme or every bit agreed betwixt the 2 Universities. Ideally, the fourth dimension stream at each place volition endure negotiated betwixt the supervisors, candidate together with the respective universities prior to the outset of the PhD studies. It is of import to NOTE that the fourth dimension inwards whatever unusual University throughout the programme MUST NOT transcend 12 months together with a maximum of 2 visits;
- Each selected Split PhD candidate volition usually endure supervised past times an approved supervisor from the unusual University together with an approved supervisor from i of the participating Nigerian universities;
- The scholarship covers total tuition together with applicable service fees for upwardly to 3 (3) years which include accommodation together with living expenses, render air tickets, champaign trips, conference attendance, costs associated alongside supervision (including the terms of travel, accommodation together with living expenses of supervisors for at to the lowest degree i trip each twelvemonth to each other's academy for the utilization of supervising their respective candidates).
- Any academic staff fellow member of a participating Nigerian academy who wishes to secure the PTDF Split PhD scholarship volition need to employ for admission to the PhD programme together with volition endure required to run into all the Nigerian together with unusual University alternative criteria together with other course of instruction requirements.
For similar a shot the programme is opened upwardly alone to academic staff inwards the PTDF upgrade universities
Participating Institutions
a). Nigerian universities eligible to participate inwards the dissever PhD program:
If eligible candidates position together with concur alongside supervisors inwards the next UK Universities for the Split PhD program, they may employ for the scholarship:
The approved crude related interrogation areas volition endure contained inwards the PTDF application marking (see 'Method of Application' below)
Sponsorship duration
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minimum of i twelvemonth is usually spent inwards the unusual establishment together with the residuum to consummate their interrogation inwards the habitation province institution, alongside regular Communication alongside the Overseas Supervisor. This implies that the pupil volition lead maintain 2 supervisors-one inwards Nigeria together with the other inwards the United Kingdom.
The primary objectives of the programme are:
Scholarship benefits
The scholarship covers total tuition together with applicable service fees for upwardly to 3 (3) years which include accommodation together with living expenses, render air tickets, champaign trips, conference attendance, costs associated alongside supervision (including the terms of travel, accommodation together with living expenses of supervisors for at to the lowest degree i trip each twelvemonth to each other's academy for the utilization of supervising their respective candidates).
Method of Application
i. Tips on Identification of Supervisors together with Co-supervisors:
Prospective candidates firstly need to position a supervisor inwards their Nigerian University together with so contact the Foreign University alongside an indication of their surface area of interrogation interest. If the dependent area surface area of the proposal fits alongside the University's interrogation profile, so the relevant faculty volition help candidates inwards finding supervisors together with other necessary requirements of the University.
There is broad variation inwards how prospective students learn almost identifying supervisors together with co-supervisors inwards unusual institutions. Each Faculty/Department has a squad of postgraduate interrogation pupil advisors who tin sack suggest almost the preferred approach to identifying supervisors inside their Faculty/Department. Most Faculties/Departments require applicants to position the supervisor prior to submitting a formal application to the university. This volition require applicants to commence a dialogue alongside a prospective supervisor who is known to them or who has been recommended to them or who they lead maintain identified through the websites. The utilization of the dialogue is to consider if the applicant’s surface area of involvement matches the involvement together with expertise of the prospective supervisor together with to produce upwardly one's heed whether they volition endure able to deed every bit the applicant’s supervisor should they endure selected for entry to the PhD. Some prefer to allocate the most appropriate supervisor on the footing of the applicant’s interrogation proposal next assessment of the application. It is of import that prospective applicants familiarise themselves alongside the procedures together with practices inside the Faculty/Department which is most relevant to their surface area of interest.
ii. Applying for the PTDF Split-PhD Scholarship:
Applicants are expected to learn scratch cards from the primary branches of First Bank Plc together with employ on http://ptdf.cinfores.com. The approved crude related interrogation areas volition endure contained inwards the PTDF application form.
Contact
For purposes of correspondence or for farther clarifications, contact the PDTF Head Office at:
Petroleum Technology Development Fund
Plot 672, Port Harcourt Crescent,
Off Gimbiya Street, off Ahmadu Bello Way,
Area 11, Garki, Abuja.
Tel: 234-9-3142216-7
Fax: 234-9-314229
Email: info@ptdf.gov.ng
Application Deadline: 31 Oct 2011
Open to International Applicants: No (only Nigerians tin sack apply)
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: PTDF Scholarships for Undergraduate together with Postgraduate Nigerians
Participating Institutions
a). Nigerian universities eligible to participate inwards the dissever PhD program:
- University of Port Harcourt
- University of Ibadan
- University of Nigeria Nsukka
- University of Benin
- University of Jos
- University of Maiduguri
- Ahmadu Bello University
- Usman Dan Fodio University
- Federal University of Technology, Owerri
- Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
- University of Calabar
- University of Uyo
- Bayero University Kano
- Federal University of Technology, Minna
- University of Ilorin
If eligible candidates position together with concur alongside supervisors inwards the next UK Universities for the Split PhD program, they may employ for the scholarship:
- Imperial College London
- University College London
- Newcastle University
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Manchester
- University of York
- University of Warwick
- University of Leeds
- University of Aberdeen
- Heriot Watt University
The approved crude related interrogation areas volition endure contained inwards the PTDF application marking (see 'Method of Application' below)
Sponsorship duration
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minimum of i twelvemonth is usually spent inwards the unusual establishment together with the residuum to consummate their interrogation inwards the habitation province institution, alongside regular Communication alongside the Overseas Supervisor. This implies that the pupil volition lead maintain 2 supervisors-one inwards Nigeria together with the other inwards the United Kingdom.
The primary objectives of the programme are:
- to construct capacity inwards the Nigerian higher teaching sector past times providing articulation PhD interrogation preparation at a unusual University together with the designated Nigerian Universities to selected candidates who must endure academic staff inwards whatever of the PTDF upgraded Universities; and
- to foster collaborative interrogation together with telephone commutation betwixt academic staff of the participating Nigerian universities together with academic staff of the Foreign Universities.
Scholarship benefits
The scholarship covers total tuition together with applicable service fees for upwardly to 3 (3) years which include accommodation together with living expenses, render air tickets, champaign trips, conference attendance, costs associated alongside supervision (including the terms of travel, accommodation together with living expenses of supervisors for at to the lowest degree i trip each twelvemonth to each other's academy for the utilization of supervising their respective candidates).
Method of Application
i. Tips on Identification of Supervisors together with Co-supervisors:
Prospective candidates firstly need to position a supervisor inwards their Nigerian University together with so contact the Foreign University alongside an indication of their surface area of interrogation interest. If the dependent area surface area of the proposal fits alongside the University's interrogation profile, so the relevant faculty volition help candidates inwards finding supervisors together with other necessary requirements of the University.
There is broad variation inwards how prospective students learn almost identifying supervisors together with co-supervisors inwards unusual institutions. Each Faculty/Department has a squad of postgraduate interrogation pupil advisors who tin sack suggest almost the preferred approach to identifying supervisors inside their Faculty/Department. Most Faculties/Departments require applicants to position the supervisor prior to submitting a formal application to the university. This volition require applicants to commence a dialogue alongside a prospective supervisor who is known to them or who has been recommended to them or who they lead maintain identified through the websites. The utilization of the dialogue is to consider if the applicant’s surface area of involvement matches the involvement together with expertise of the prospective supervisor together with to produce upwardly one's heed whether they volition endure able to deed every bit the applicant’s supervisor should they endure selected for entry to the PhD. Some prefer to allocate the most appropriate supervisor on the footing of the applicant’s interrogation proposal next assessment of the application. It is of import that prospective applicants familiarise themselves alongside the procedures together with practices inside the Faculty/Department which is most relevant to their surface area of interest.
ii. Applying for the PTDF Split-PhD Scholarship:
Applicants are expected to learn scratch cards from the primary branches of First Bank Plc together with employ on http://ptdf.cinfores.com. The approved crude related interrogation areas volition endure contained inwards the PTDF application form.
Contact
For purposes of correspondence or for farther clarifications, contact the PDTF Head Office at:
Petroleum Technology Development Fund
Plot 672, Port Harcourt Crescent,
Off Gimbiya Street, off Ahmadu Bello Way,
Area 11, Garki, Abuja.
Tel: 234-9-3142216-7
Fax: 234-9-314229
Email: info@ptdf.gov.ng
Application Deadline: 31 Oct 2011
Open to International Applicants: No (only Nigerians tin sack apply)
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: PTDF Scholarships for Undergraduate together with Postgraduate Nigerians
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