Archive for February, 2012

Adelaide Scholarships International (ASI), University of Adelaide, Australia

The University of Adelaide offers a scholarships scheme for international students undertaking postgraduate research study. Its purpose is to attract high quality overseas postgraduate students to areas of research strength in the University of Adelaide to support its research effort. The selection for scholarships is extremely competitive.

A number of ASI scholarships may be available in the mid year round of scholarships for semester 2, 2012 to outstanding international students from any country undertaking postgraduate research in any academic discipline.

The ASI provides:

Course tuition fees for two years for a Masters degree by Research and three years for a Doctoral research degree (an extension is possible for doctoral programs only);
An annual living allowance of approximately $23,728 (2012 value) for the normal duration of the program; and
If the award holder holds a subclass 574 visa the award covers the cost of compulsory standard Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) Worldcare policy for the student and their spouse and dependents (if any) for the period of the scholarship. If the award holder does not hold a subclass 574 visa then he/she is responsible for the cost of health insurance.
The scholarship does NOT cover visa application fees.

Applicants should hold at least the equivalent of an Australian First Class Honours degree. This is a four year degree with a major research project in the final year. Other criteria that will be taken into consideration is undergraduate performance, bachelor and honours awards and scholarships, other postgraduate degrees, publications in internationally refereed journals, the presentation of conference papers and relevant industry experience.

Applications for these scholarships are always highly competitive. Generally ASI recipients have completed a Masters degree including a significant research component and have several publications and relevant work and research experience.

Conditions

ASI Scholarship will be awarded strictly on academic merit. Extra-curricular achievements will not be considered.
Citizens and Permanent Residents of Australia, and citizens of New Zealand are ineligible.
Those undertaking research via remote candidature are ineligible.
International applicants are not eligible for an ASI if they have already commenced the degree for which they are seeking an award, unless they can establish that they were unable to apply for an ASI in the last round of the previous calendar year.
International applicants who have not provided evidence of their meeting English language proficiency requirements by the closing date are not eligible for an ASI.
International applicants must not hold a research qualification regarded by the University of Adelaide to be equivalent to an Australian Research Doctorate degree or, if undertaking a Research Masters degree, not hold a research qualification regarded by the University of Adelaide to be equivalent to or higher than an Australian Research Masters degree.
Candidates are required to enrol in the University of Adelaide as ‘international students’ and must maintain ‘international student’ status for the duration of their enrolment in the University.
Scholarships holders must commence study at The University of Adelaide in semester 2, 2012. No ASI may be commenced after 30 November 2012.
Scholarship winners will not be permitted to defer commencement until 2013.
Applicants who applied in previous international major scholarship rounds are not eligible to apply again.
The offer of an ASI scholarship is contingent upon a student not being offered another award by the Commonwealth of Australia, The University of Adelaide, or an overseas sponsor. The University reserves the right to withdraw an offer of a scholarship at any time prior to enrolment if it is advised that a awardee has been offered a scholarship equal to or in excess of the financial value of the award offered by the University
Closing Date: 1 May 2012. We strongly recommend that all applicants submit their application and all required documents well before the closing date. Incomplete applications at the scholarship application deadline will not be considered for a scholarship.

Applicants will be notified by the end of June 2012 regarding the outcome of their scholarship application.

For application form: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/admission/form.html#Intl

LLM Scholarships, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK

For 2012-2013 Birmingham Law School will be offering a range of scholarships to applicants for its taught LLM programmes.

up to £5,000 for international students (Non EU)
up to £2,000 for UK/EU students.
Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and financial need. Applicants must already have applied for admission to the LLM degree.

Applying for a scholarship
Applicants are required to send a letter of motivation to Mrs Sharon Jones (Law-LLM@bham.ac.uk) addressing the twin requirements of academic merit and financial need.

The closing date for the receipt of Scholarship applications is Friday, 22 June 2012.

Successful applicants will be notified in July 2012. Scholarships are not payable directly to successful applicants but are set off against the University fee invoice for 2012-2013 and will be transferred once successful applicants have paid the balance owed by them to the University.

For more information, please visit official website: www.birmingham.ac.uk

KGSP Graduate Scholarships, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Admission Schedule
Deadline of Application document submission : By March 16, 2012(Fri) * subject to change

Eligibility for Application, Required Documentation and Application Procedure : the same as the 2012 KGSP application guideline

Campus Life (Residence Hall)
Chung-Ang University houses Korean Government scholars in the new student dormitory which opened in fall 2010. Both Korean and internationla students live in the dormitory to provide an international atmosphere. The Monthly rent is around $300USD for a room with four beds and $350USD for a room with two beds. The price includes meal coupons.

Important Notes

All application documents must be original or properly certified copies of the originals.
All documents (except a copy of passport, ID and alien registration card) in a language other than English or Korean must be accompanied by a notarized English or Korean translation.
All submitted documents will not be returned.
Website
Graduate school http://caugs.cau.ac.kr/
Graduate schoolf of advanced imaging science, multimedia & film http://www.gsaim.cau.ac.kr
GSIS http://gsis.cau.ac.kr/ Global HRD http://globalhrd.cau.ac.kr
MBA school http://mba.cau.ac.kr

Chung-Ang University
Address: Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, Bldg no. 302
221, Heukseok, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea
Website: http://www.cau.ac.kr/

For more information on scholarships, please read: Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) for International Graduate Students