By Kate Robey | The GVI Trust, Operations Manager
Dear Supporters,
We are now firmly in 2017 and have hit the ground running with our scholarship programme.
Last year our partnership with the Foundation for Young Australians came to an end. Experience Asia, the programme that we were in partnership with, came to an end due to changing priorities on the part of the Foundation for Young Australians. As a result, we don’t have any students currently signed up to join our National Scholarship Programme for Australians in 2017.
Looking for new partners
We are in the beginning processes of looking for and forging new partnerships with Australian schools, universities, institutions and clubs and we hope that in the next few months we will have secured several new partnerships. Our Australian partners will help us identify students who we can invite to apply for a scholarship.
New Processes
As the scholarship programme grows, we have recognised the need to work on our administrative processes and procedures. Thus, we have been working on streamlining our application process. This means that it has become easier for us to manage the recruitment process, from start to finish. The application process is in two parts and it is designed to allow us to get to know applicants better before we reach out to them to award them a scholarship- we want to know what their career path plans are, how they view international development and how they foresee the opportunity benefitting them.
Find Out More
As we take on a more active role, as opposed to solely working via partner organisations, we have also re-looked at eligibility, programmes for scholars to choose and the value of each scholarship. If you are interested in finding out more about the application process, what is expected of the scholars and what they will get out of the scholarship, we invite you to visit our website, which has all the details listed!
Please invite any Australian organisations that you think would be great partners for us or any Australian scholars that you might know, to view our requirements, apply or get in touch for more information!
Thank you for your continued support- it is through your generosity that we have been able to grow to such a point! We are confident that 2017/2018 is going to see a record number of students joining our scholarship programme.
With Gratitude,
The GVI Trust
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