Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme

    • Application closing date
      31 January Annually
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    Company description

    This fellowship was set up in 2012 in honour of the late Professor Kader Asmal, who taught law at Trinity College Dublin for 27 years, specialising in human rights, labour, and international law. He co-founded the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1963 and served as Chair until his return to South Africa in 1990. He was part of the ANC team that negotiated the transition to democracy. In 1994, he became Minister for Water Affairs and Forestry in the first ANC Government after the advent of democracy and served as Minister for Education from 1999 to 2004. He died in June 2011.

    Under this fellowship programme, Irish Aid supports students from South Africa to undertake Masters level studies in Ireland in strategically-important disciplines including finance, business, engineering, sustainable technologies and public health and nutrition.

    Bursary description

    The Programme enables students to benefit from a prestigious, world-class, quality education contributing to capacity building whilst also profiling the best that Ireland has to offer in education.

    The scholarship award covers course fees, required flights, accommodation, monthly allowances, insurance and other incidental expenses. Eligible Masters programmes in Ireland commence in the period August to September each year and, depending on the course, scholarships will run for between 10 and 16 months.

    Eligible Courses:

    Masters programmes in Ireland in: (i) business management, economics and finance; (ii) agriculture, food science, environment and rural development; (iii) gender and human rights (iv) engineering, sustainable technology and resource management; (v) information systems and communications technology; and (vi) tourism. A directory of eligible courses is available for download at www.canoncollins.org.uk/apply/scholarship/kader-asmal-fellowship.

    Requirements and eligibility

    To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must:

      • be a resident national of South Africa
      • Have a minimum of two years relevant work experience (this can include internships and volunteering)
      • Hold an honours level academic qualification with a minimum grade point average of 75% (First class honour, or second class honour, Grade
      • be seeking funding for a full-time postgraduate programme in one of the above-listed subject areas
      • be able to take up a fellowship in the academic year 2022/2023
      • Must not have applied for Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme on more than one previous occasion.

    Please note applicants already in possession of a Master’s degree are not eligible.

    How to apply

    Applications must be done online here via the Canon Collins Education and Legal Assistance Trust.

    Email

    office@icosirl.ie

    Contact number

    +44 020 3770 0396 

    Website

    https://www.canoncollins.org/scholarship/our-scholarships/

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