Australian Authorities (Ads-Ala) Scholarships For Cambodians

Overview

The 2012 Commonwealth of Australia Awards aim to promote knowledge, pedagogy links as well as enduring ties betwixt Australia, Kingdom of Cambodia as well as the global community.

Development awards remove maintain been an of import gene of the Australian Government’s overseas assist programme since the Colombo Plan inward the 1950s, supporting its aim to assist Kingdom of Cambodia to trim poverty as well as laissez passer on sustainable development.

The overarching goals of Australia's evolution awards are:

• to develop capacity as well as leadership skills as well as therefore that individuals tin contribute to evolution inward Cambodia
• to construct people-to-people linkages at the individual, institutional as well as province levels.

The Commonwealth of Australia Awards volition go offering l Australian Development Scholarships (ADS) as well as farther scholarships volition go awarded for Australian Leadership Awards (ALA) inward the 2012 pick round.  Master or PhD qualifications are forthwith offered nether both awards. xx scholarships are allocated for officials of the Royal Government of Kingdom of Cambodia (Public Sector category).

Australian Development Scholarships (ADS)

ADS are a highly valued shape of evolution cooperation betwixt Commonwealth of Australia as well as partner countries alongside which Commonwealth of Australia has a bilateral agreement.

Master or PhD qualifications are forthwith offered nether ADS. These long-term awards furnish back upward for people to obtain 3rd qualifications at participating Australian institutions inward specific areas that volition address the jointly agreed primal priority areas for development.

ADS are administered past times the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). ADS furnish opportunities to people from many developing countries to report inward Australia. The run of the scholarships is for people to gain knowledge as well as skills that volition contribute to the long-term evolution of their country. The scholarships are available to those employed inward authorities as well as non-government sectors.

The ADS were introduced to Kingdom of Cambodia inward 1994 nether an understanding alongside the Council for the Development of Kingdom of Cambodia (CDC) every bit business office of Australia’s various bilateral development-cooperation program.

Australian Leadership Awards (ALA)

ALA are no longer stand-alone scholarships but are forthwith beingness administered every bit supplementary awards to the ADS.  The ALA are aimed at enhancing leadership as well as edifice partnerships as well as links alongside developing countries to address priority areas for development.

Up to 200 ALA are available globally on an annual footing for high achievers who recollect to undertake postgraduate studies as well as who demonstrate the best potential to influence evolution outcomes inward their dwelling theatre country.

Scholarship applicants may betoken their involvement inward beingness considered for an ALA on the Scholarship Application form.  Selection panels may every bit good seat as well as recommend candidates for the ALA, mostly from the puddle of ADS applicants.  H5N1 high bird interdepartmental pick panel inward Canberra makes the finally determination as well as at that topographic point is no specific resources allotment for each province or region.

In add-on to receiving the ADS entitlements, the selected ALA scholars volition undertake a Leadership for Development Program piece they are inward Australia.  The run of this Program is to lift the might as well as confidence of participating scholars to Pb activeness on evolution reform inward their ain country.  ALA Scholars are provided alongside farther opportunities as well as activities, beyond their postgraduate studies, to lift their leadership knowledge as well as extend their networks through a national Leadership for Development Conference as well as other tailored activities.

ALA applicants must remove maintain an IELTS of 6.5 alongside no band less than 6.0 at fourth dimension of application submission as well as volition go required to start their report programme at the firstly of 2013.

The Application Process

• Online application (preferred format): to apply online delight exercise as well as therefore at https://oasis.ausaid.gov.au/
• Hardcopy application, for those having difficulties accessing Internet facilities, are downloadable here or tin go collected from the 3 Australian Centre for Education (ACE) campuses (Siem Reap, Phnom Penh). Completed hardcopy applications are to go submitted at the Australian Embassy inward Phnom Penh.

Click here to download Information Brochure
Click here to download Referee Form
Click here to download Commonwealth of Australia Awards Handbook

Eligibility Criteria for the Commonwealth of Australia Awards

• Cambodian citizen as well as resident
• Not go electrical flow serving military personnel
• Non-resident of Commonwealth of Australia or New Zealand
• Not married to/or defacto of, or engaged to, Australian or New Zealand citizen or resident
• Not care or remove maintain held an Australian Government-funded scholarship inward the preceding 12 months at fourth dimension of application
• Not remove maintain obtained an academic qualification exterior their dwelling theatre province inward the 24 months preceding the application closing date, calculated from the appointment of arrival dorsum inward the dwelling theatre country
• Not go applying for roughly other long-term AusAID scholarship unless they remove maintain returned to their dwelling theatre province as well as resided at that topographic point for twice the length of the total fourth dimension that they were inward Commonwealth of Australia (for example, a previous AusAID Scholar who has been on AusAID scholarship/s inward Commonwealth of Australia for 2 years volition non go eligible to apply for roughly other AusAID scholarship until they remove maintain been dwelling theatre for 4 years)
• Not already go studying at an Australian establishment at the fourth dimension of application
• Possess a Bachelors score considered equivalent to an Australian Bachelors degree
• Master bird applicants must possess advanced English linguistic communication skills (IELTS results of 5.5 alongside no band below 4.5 acre of report to testing which tin go undertaken after applications remove maintain been submitted)
• PhD applicants must possess IELTS of 6.5 alongside no band below 6.0 at the fourth dimension of application
• PhD applicants must furnish an Unconditional Letter of Offer from the intended academy of report OR furnish documentation demonstrating communication alongside a potential supervisor as well as remove maintain received that supervisor’s in- main understanding to the inquiry proposal as well as their capacity to supervise the applicant

For ADS Public sector category applicants:

• Either:
  
  • Royal Government of Kingdom of Cambodia (RGC) officials, at fourth dimension of application, remove maintain at to the lowest degree 2 years full-time sense with, as well as go a electrical flow full-time employee
  • Not a RGC official, but at fourth dimension of application, remove maintain at to the lowest degree 5 years full-time sense with, as well as go currently employed on a full-time footing by, a authorities authority, way or establishment established past times Royal Decree or Subdecree. Employment tenure may go on a term-contract basis*
• If selected, must commit to render to piece of work for the relevant Ministry/Agency for a minimum flow of 2 years on completion of studies

For ADS Open category applicants:

• At fourth dimension of application, remove maintain 3 years full-time piece of work experience* inward a relevant field
• If selected, commit to render to piece of work inward a seat that utilises skills for a minimum flow of 2 years on completion of studies

* Applicants must furnish evidence of occupation duration. If an applicant has been employed at to a greater extent than than 1 workplace during the relevant sense period, evidence from each employer during that flow is required.  Any pregnant “gaps” inward occupation must go explained or the application may aspect upward the possibility of beingness ruled ineligible. 

^ Some applicants may go required to sit down an IELTS assay next interview inward lodge to demonstrate English linguistic communication proficiency.

Selection Criteria

Eligible applicants are measured against the next pick criteria:

1. Demonstrated occupation as well as contribution inward at to the lowest degree 1 of the next AusAID priority areas:

• Agriculture as well as Rural Development
• Health
• Infrastructure
• Law as well as Justice
• Mining (the extracting of natural resources, such every bit minerals, oil, petroleum, or gas)

(Consideration volition every bit good go given to applicants alongside relevant sense inward the cross-cutting priority areas of: Public Financial Management, Gender Equality, Aid Effectiveness, Social Policy, Disability as well as Child Protection)

2. Alignment of occupation as well as anticipated report alongside the specific focus of the Commonwealth of Australia Kingdom of Cambodia Country Program Strategy
3. Demonstrated academic merit during previous academy studies
4. Relevance of academic background to proposed report inward Australia
5. Relevance of piece of work background to proposed report inward Australia
6. Demonstrated awareness of issues related to the evolution of Cambodia
7. Stated personal commitment as well as potential contribution to evolution inward Cambodia

Note: Applicants who are employed past times the RGC or associated agencies may apply for either Public or Open category. The Open category is opened upward to all Cambodians.

Short-listed candidates volition go interviewed alongside questions related to the Selection Criteria above. The interviews probe each candidate inward depth to decide the finally listing of awardees. H5N1 candidate’s English linguistic communication may go tested in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than to confirm eligibility. For populace sector category awardees, finally pick must go approved past times the relevant RGC Ministry/Agency.

Level as well as Length of Study

The Commonwealth of Australia Awards enable candidates to undertake report at Masters (coursework only) or Doctorate (PhD) bird inward Commonwealth of Australia alongside the exception of those Masters courses that require the completion of a Graduate Diploma every bit business office of the Masters degree. Length of report is subject on the chosen report path. However it is mostly upward to 2 years for Masters degrees as well as upward to 4 years for Doctorate degrees.

Candidates may go required to successfully consummate pre-departure English linguistic communication for Academic Purposes preparation for 6–12 months inward Phnom Penh earlier studying inward Australia. Those awardees who exercise non laissez passer on the required bird of English linguistic communication at the destination of their pre-departure training, every bit assessed past times IELTS testing as well as pre-departure preparation requirements, volition non go permitted to accept upward the scholarship inward Australia.

Note: The awarding of a scholarship house is provisional as well as is subject on the candidate achieving a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 alongside no band less than 6.0. This IELTS score is a requirement of academy entrance inward Australia.

Fields of Study

The Commonwealth of Australia Awards are only opened upward to report programs related to the AusAID priority areas of

• Agricultural as well as Rural Development
• Health
• Infrastructure
• Law as well as Justice
• Mining (the extracting of natural resources, such every bit minerals, oil, petroleum, or gas)

Consideration volition every bit good go given to applicants whose proposed acre of report supports their relevant sense inward the cross-cutting priority areas of: Public Financial Management, Gender Equality, Aid Effectiveness, Social Policy, Disability as well as Child Protection.  Awards are non available for armed forces training, or preparation inward areas related to nuclear technology as well as flight aircraft.

Scholarship Entitlements

The accolade covers:

• Pre-departure preparation (for ADS Masters bird candidates only)
• Return air go to as well as from Australia
• Contribution towards initial visa expenses
• Establishment allowance
• An ongoing contribution to living expenses for the pupil only. No additional fiscal back upward is available for the student’s family, as well as all costs for accompanying household unit of measurement members must go paid past times the pupil personally
• Full tuition fees
• Introductory Academic Program (IAP)
• Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) for the duration of the accolade (for accolade holder only)
• A Leadership Development Program (ALA only)

Pre-departure Training (for ADS Masters bird candidates only)

Most candidates are required to undertake pre-departure preparation prior to postgraduate studies inward Australia. In recognition of this, the Australian Government pays these candidates a pre-departure stipend that is calculated according to whether part- or full-time pre-departure preparation is required.

At the completion of the preparation all awardees volition sit down an IELTS assay as well as must laissez passer on a minimum IELTS final result of 6.5 alongside no band less than 6.0 to secure their scholarship house as well as to encounter both visa as well as academy requirements .

Scholarship Conditions

Applicants who are offered an accolade volition go asked to sign a disceptation declaring that they volition comply alongside the weather condition of the scholarship. The weather condition ensure that AusAID, the awardee’s workplace as well as the pupil gain the maximum exercise goodness from the scholarship.

• Awardees must start scholarship inward the twelvemonth for which it is awarded. The awards cannot go deferred
• Awardees must go enrolled on a full-time footing as well as brand satisfactory academic progress
• All visa weather condition as well as academy regulations must go satisfied
• Awardees must go out Australia, preferably returning to Cambodia, for a minimum of 2 years at the completion of their scholarship inward Australia
• The accolade does non furnish funds to back upward accompanying dependants/family members
• Awardees are non permitted to care whatsoever other Australian Government-sponsored scholarship for the duration of the award
• Awardees must fully cooperate alongside AusAID’s monitoring as well as evaluation of Commonwealth of Australia Awards, including participation inward activities such every bit surveys as well as tracer studies both whilst on accolade as well as after render to Cambodia

Awardees who exercise non honor these weather condition volition go required to go out Australia, as well as may go required to repay the value of the scholarship.

Australia Awards

Provincial Information Sessions

Information sessions volition go conducted inward the next provinces:

• Kampong Cham Province: Mon 12 March 2012, 2:00pm at the Western University (#171-173, Preah Ang Eng Street, Kampong Cham Province) 
• Svay Rieng Province: Midweek fourteen March 2012, 2:30pm at the Svay Rieng University (National Road No 1, Phumi Chambak, Sangkat Chek, Svay Rieng City, Svay Rieng Province)
• Preah Sihanouk Province: Fri sixteen March 2012, 6:30pm at the University of Management as well as Economics(Ekareach (St.), Mondul 3, Sangkat 4, Preah Sihanouk Province)
• Battambang Province: Mon 26 March 2012, 9:00am at the University of Battambang (National Road No 5, Sangkat Prek Preah Sdech, Battambang City, Battambang Province)
• Banteay Meanchey Province: Mon 26 March 2012, 3:00pm at the University of Meanchey (National Road No 5, Banoy Village, Sangkat Toek Thla, Serei Sophorn Town, Banteay Meanchey Province)
• Siem Reap Province: Tuesday 27 March 2012, 6:15pm at the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (Wat Bo Village, Sala Kamroeuk Commune, Siem Reap Town, Siem Reap Province)

To register or farther data close the sessions, delight email piseth.pum@idp.com

The Commonwealth of Australia Awards 2012 pick circular is forthwith opened upward for applications.


Application Deadline: 30 Apr 2012

Additional Information

For farther information, delight contact:
IDP Education (Cambodia)#657, Kampuchea Krom Blvd, Teuk Laark 1,
Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel:  (+855) 23 881 017
Fax: (+855) 23 881 020
Email: ads.phnompenh@idp.com; ala.phnompenh@idp.com

http://www.cambodia.idp.com/scholarships/australia%20awards.aspx



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