After your first degree, there is also this need to acquire
advanced knowledge, new skills to remain relevant in your chosen career or for
the quest of trying out on a new career path.
Similarly, the desire to acquire university or technical
qualifications and skills is growing in several countries of the world with the
global vision of giving education to all.
I explained what should be expected from you after your university career, though many people didn’t get these experiences while in school for one reason or the other.
Most people prefer to take up their further studies or professional
development programs in another country other than their home country.
Consequently, several people lack the money to fund their education
especially when they desire to study in a country with a currency value higher
than their country currency value. This is evident in countries as United
Kingdom, USA, Canada, Netherlands, etc. where international students pay higher
fees for tuition, accommodation and maintenance.
Most prospective students have resorted to seeking funding
from organizations, universities and individuals in form of scholarship.
One great challenge about securing a scholarship is that too many
applications chase a small fund.
This article reveals some of the rules to adopt when applying scholarship to
enhance the chances of your application being selected.
Gather your admission and scholarship materials beforehand.
Most scholarship applicants do not know the application documents required by the school they intend to apply to.
Different schools require different application materials depending on the
country, course of study or type and mode of programme.
Generally, the following documents may be required:
- copy of Degree certificate usually certified/notarised copy in the case of scholarship application.
- copy of transcript usually certified copy in the case of scholarship application.
- Letter of motivation.
- Two letters of Reference-professional and academic.
- Fully completed scholarship application Form.
- Letter of financial support or letter of sponsorship.
- English Language certificate or other evidence of proficiency in English Language which is the language of instruction for course of study.
This requirement varies in countries
where other international languages are used other than English Language such
German, French, Japanese or Spanish.
However, most universities would
give a waiver on the English language requirement for countries whose one of
the official languages is English language.
Start early to apply for admission
into your chosen schools and programme(s).
When I was scouting for scholarship
for my graduate programme, one mistake l made was to start my admission process
late even though l thought I started early.
l later discovered that the
admission process takes at least three months or more depending on a range of
factors. It could be delays in the postal delivery of the application documents
or getting reference letters from your academic and professional referees, or
getting your transcript(s) from your school.
Therefore, if you want to start your
programme in September for scholarship, it is good to start the application
process from November of the preceding year of study.
This will place you in position to
be in possession of an offer of admission from the school, either conditional
or otherwise, before the scholarship application deadline.
The reason is that most universities
and lnternational
funding organizations have their scholarship deadline fixed between
March and May annually. For example, the deadline for scholarship application
for the University of Westminster is May 30 for September intake and November
30 for January intake.
Take note of scholarship application
deadline and work to beat it.
You should remember that any
application for scholarship that did not beat the deadline will not be
processed and you don't have any contractual agreement with the scholarship
panel in this case as their decision is final.
Most funding bodies do not permit
sending the scholarship application documents through courier service fax or as
email attachment. This could be a way of reducing the number of application to
be received due to the available funding.
Most scholarship applications are
done online but you are expected to send the supporting documents through mail
in some cases which would take some days to get to the destination or may be
delayed due to transit problems.
Construct a good letter of Support.
The letter of support is expected to
reveal to the scholarship panel why you need the scholarship, what amount of
support you need-tuition, maintenance, or accommodation, the effort you have
made in securing funding from other scholarship bodies or individual/company
sponsorship and why you are the best candidate for the scholarship.
The letter of support should not write
in a hurry. You should be clear, precise, sincere, persuasive and convincing in
your writing. Remember that in most cases, you are not interviewed by the
Panel.
Your write-up represents you and one
of the crucial parameters to be duly considered before awarding scholarship to
you.
Remember that scholarship
opportunities are few and highly competitive.
About two-thirds of prospective
students need financial support in one form or the other which makes it very
competitive to get funding for your programme.
Most International funding Bodies
and Universities receive large number of scholarship applications annually
while they have few openings.
These Universities have devised
means to reduce the number of applications by considering only applications
that meet their criteria as usually stipulated in the application form.
Therefore, you are expected to read
the criteria for application very carefully considering the basic qualificationfor scholarship application for the programme, the number of years required as
work experience, the language of instruction, the value and duration of the
award.
Most scholarships are partial while
others are full. The partial scholarship may cover tuition (full tuition
waiver) or accommodation only or maintenance only or a combination of the two
above while full scholarships cover tuition, accommodation and maintenance.
Do not apply for scholarship without
an offer of admission.
Almost all the Low Tuition
Colleges and Universities require that you first secure admission
into the programme of your choice before applying for scholarship.This is one
of the reasons why you need to start early to apply for admission.
Most applicants spend time running
after funding opportunities without a corresponding letter of an offer of
admission only to regret hereafter.
The scholarship awarding body wants to be sure that you would take up the offer of scholarship when awarded to you and therefore, would see evidence of acceptance into the school of your proposed programme of study.
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