ASEAN Scholarships Awards in New Zealand

The New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards 2012 alternative annular is now accessible for applications

Application Deadline: 3 April 2012

When and How to Apply:

Television, radio and bi-weekly commercial of the New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards arrangement run throughout March 2012. Appliance forms are accessible from IDP Cambodia.

Applicants accept to abide their completed applications to IDP Cambodia by 5.00pm, 3 April 2012

Eligibility Criteria:

To be acceptable for a New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards, applicants must:

• be a aborigine of Cambodia and be residing in Cambodia for at atomic two years at the time of application;
• be 35 years or adolescent at the time of application;
• hold a Bachelor’s degree, of able bookish merit, accordant to the proposed postgraduate qualification;
• not authority a accomplishment at a agnate akin or in a agnate acreage of abstraction at agnate level;
• be applying to arise a new accomplishment (not gluttonous abutment for one already commenced);
• satisfy the acceptance requirements of the New Zealand apprenticeship academy in which the accomplishment is to be undertaken, including English accent criteria;
• have a minimum two years plan acquaintance in Cambodia in their accordant public, clandestine or civilian association sectors and these two years accept to be afterwards achievement of their accomplished qualification;
• not accept citizenship or abiding abode cachet for New Zealand, Australia or accession developed country, or be affiliated or affianced to be affiliated to a getting who holds, or who is acceptable to hold, New Zealand or Australian citizenship or abiding abode status;
• not authority or accept captivated a New Zealand Government or Australian Government scholarship in the above-mentioned 24 months at the time of appliance recipients (excluding antecedent New Zealand Aid Programme 'English Accent Training for Officials' scholarships);
• have a minimum IELTS (Academic) aftereffect of 5.5 overall, with no bandage beneath than 5.0 and after-effects to be no earlier than 24 months at time of application*
• (* Some candidates may be provided IELTS testing afterward their interview);
• be accessible to yield up the scholarship in the agenda year for which the scholarship is offered.

In addition, applicants must:

• have an adapted plan accomplishments for the advancing acreage of study;
• be able to authenticate a able charge to Cambodia’s accessible area and/or clandestine and/or association area (as relevant), and to the development of Cambodia in general;
• satisfy New Zealand Government requirements for all-embracing apprentice access to New Zealand (medical and appearance checks etc.);
• not authority any added scholarship during the aeon of the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded scholarship;
• in getting offered and accepting a New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards, accede in autograph that they will acknowledgment to Cambodia to yield up a position that utilises their abstraction abilities for a minimum aeon of two years.

Officials from government agencies complex in New Zealand Aid Programme projects are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates who do not authority the appropriate IELTS aftereffect to arise postgraduate abstraction in New Zealand (usually 6.5 all-embracing with no bandage beneath than 6) accept to undertake pre-departure training for up to nine months in Cambodia above-mentioned to tertiary studies in New Zealand

Scholarship Conditions:

Applicants who are offered a New Zealand ASEAN Scholars Awards will be asked to assurance a account declaring that they will accede with the altitude of the scholarship:

• full-time abstraction of the accustomed programme;
• satisfactory bookish progress;
• compliance with apprenticeship academy regulations and New Zealand Aid Programme scholarship conditions;
• compliance with New Zealand law as it applies to any acceding amid awardees and the New Zealand Government;
• acceptance that the scholarship may be aloof by New Zealand Aid Programme area awardees abort to 
• accede with scholarship conditions;
• return to their home country for a minimum aeon of two years aural 14 canicule of the achievement date of the scholarship.

Additional Information:

For added information, please visit www.cambodia.idp.com