The Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship
Course(s) Offered: Environmental sustainability fields
Course Level: Masters (MPhil)
Provider: Simon Nicks
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
H5N1 bursary fund for master's studies inwards light-green architecture, sustainable pattern for urban areas, technology scientific discipline or scientific discipline focusing on sustainable technologies was launched at UCT recently.
Named the Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship together with aimed at mainly dark students, the laurels volition contribute R20 000 to the students' postgraduate studies. The scholarship volition live on inwards house for the adjacent 10 years.
It was formed yesteryear Simon Nicks, a planner together with urban designer from Cape Town who set all his winnings from his 2010 Johnnie Walker Celebrating Strides Award (environmental category) into the fund.
Eligibility
The Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship has been established to render back upwards to Master’s students who strive towards the advertisement of the environmental sustainability agenda together with who volition register for a full-time MPhil score at the University of Cape Town, inwards i of the courses (or related areas) listed below.
Eligibility together with Academic Criteria:
Course(s) Offered: Environmental sustainability fields
Course Level: Masters (MPhil)
Provider: Simon Nicks
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
H5N1 bursary fund for master's studies inwards light-green architecture, sustainable pattern for urban areas, technology scientific discipline or scientific discipline focusing on sustainable technologies was launched at UCT recently.
Named the Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship together with aimed at mainly dark students, the laurels volition contribute R20 000 to the students' postgraduate studies. The scholarship volition live on inwards house for the adjacent 10 years.
It was formed yesteryear Simon Nicks, a planner together with urban designer from Cape Town who set all his winnings from his 2010 Johnnie Walker Celebrating Strides Award (environmental category) into the fund.
Eligibility
The Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship has been established to render back upwards to Master’s students who strive towards the advertisement of the environmental sustainability agenda together with who volition register for a full-time MPhil score at the University of Cape Town, inwards i of the courses (or related areas) listed below.
Eligibility together with Academic Criteria:
- Preference volition live on given to South African citizens, although applications from students from the SADC countries volition too live on considered.
- Applicants must cause got achieved at to the lowest degree 65% for the quaternary or in conclusion twelvemonth or the Honours degree.
- Applicants must cause got at to the lowest degree TWO years working sense inwards the full general expanse of the proposed study (*as detailed above).
- Applicants must live on accepted (or provisionally accepted) yesteryear the academic department, together with cause got secured a supervisor inwards the subdivision inwards which the study is to live on carried out
The successful candidate volition live on required to:
- register for full-time study inwards the relevant department.
- comply amongst University’s approved policies, procedures together with practices on postgraduate funding.
- repay to the University of Cape Town the value of the laurels should he/she deregister or if satisfactory academic progress is non live on made, or if whatsoever of the atmospheric condition of laurels are non met
- meet amongst the sponsor of the scholarship for word together with to render regular reports on the study beingness undertaken.
Citizens of the v SADC* countries namely: South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Namibia together with Mozambique
*SADC - South African Development Community
Participating Institutions
University of Cape Town; South Africa
Fields of study
One of the next (or related) areas: Engineering, Architecture, City & Regional Planning, Urban Design, Environmental together with Geographical Sciences, Economics
Number of awards
Sponsorship duration
The scholarship volition live on tenable for i year. Renewal of the laurels may live on considered for i farther year, subject on satisfactory academic progress together with availability of funds.
Scholarship benefits
The value of the scholarship is R20,000 per annum.
Method of Application
Applicants are required to:
- Write a alphabetic quality of application outlining the intended study together with how she/he intends to influence policy regarding global, national together with local environmental issues, together with how he/she volition usage the study inwards her/his career inwards the future. Please regime notation that the Application Letter MUST live on express to two A4 pages.
- Submit a CV of no longer than ONE A4 page. The VC must render exceptional of previous studies, previous work together with evidence of leadership roles inwards both of these areas.
- Attach a certified re-create of all academic transcripts (University only)
- Attach a certified re-create of SA identity document or passport
- Attach 1 alphabetic quality of reference from an Academic who has taught her/him at University
- Attach at to the lowest degree 1 alphabetic quality of reference from a previous EMPLOYER (specifically from the Employer from whom the relevant study-related sense was gained).
- Provide a alphabetic quality from the Course Convenor/Head of Department indicating that she/he has, or is probable to live on accepted yesteryear the subdivision for study inwards 2011.
Selection volition live on made yesteryear a sub-committee of the Postgraduate Studies Funding Committee, inwards consultation amongst the sponsor.
You may download the Scholarship Notice together with Guidelines(pdf).
DEADLINES:
Applications must live on submitted to the Director, Postgraduate Centre & Funding Office, University of Cape Town, yesteryear no afterwards than fifteen Jan 2011
PLEASE NOTE:
The University reserves the correct non to brand whatsoever laurels and/or to modify the atmospheric condition of award.
Application Deadline: fifteen Jan 2011
Open to International students: No (ONLY SADC counties)
More Scholarship Information together with Application
Related: Scholarships inwards South Africa for International Students
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