The Simon Nicks Sustainability Scholarship has been established to provide support to Master’s students who strive towards the promotion of the environmental sustainability agenda; who intend to influence policy regarding global, national and local environmental issues, and who will register for a full-time MPhil degree at the University of Cape Town, in one of the following (or related) areas: Engineering Architecture City & Regional Planning Urban Design Environmental and Geographical Sciences Economics
Eligibility and Academic Criteria:
- Preference will be given to South African citizens, although applications from students from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries will also be considered.
- Applicants must have achieved at least 65% for the 4th or final year or the Honours degree.
- Applicants must have at least TWO years working experience in the general area of the proposed study (*as detailed above).
- Applicants must be accepted (or provisionally accepted) by the academic department, and have secured a supervisor in the department in which the study is to be carried out
Value and Tenure:
The value of the scholarship is R 20,000 per annum. The scholarship will be tenable for one year.
Renewal of the award may be considered for one further year, dependant on satisfactory academic progress and availability of funds.
Conditions of Award:
The successful candidate will be required to:
- register for full-time study in the relevant department. Individuals who will be are employed full-time in 2012 are ineligible;
- comply with University’s approved policies, procedures and practices on postgraduate funding.
- repay to the University of Cape Town the value of the award should he/she deregister or if satisfactory academic progress is not be made, or if any of the conditions of award are not met;
- meet with the sponsor of the scholarship for discussion and to provide regular reports on the study being undertaken
Selection Procedure:
Selection will be made by a sub-committee of the Postgraduate Studies Funding Committee, in consultation with the sponsor.
Last date for submission of applications is October 15, 2011
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