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Capturing Scholarship Opportunities for Academic Success

Learn how to excel academically and secure scholarship opportunities at a symposium held at Deeper Life Campus Fellowship, Akungba-Akoko on 9th July 2016. Explore funding resources and harness your academic potential with expert guidance.

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Capturing Scholarship Opportunities for Academic Success

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  1. Catching and Seizing Scholarship Opportunities for Academic Exploits Presented at the Deeper Life Campus Fellowship, Akungba-Akoko 9th July, 2016

  2. Introduction • Academic Exploits: Heroic academic performance • Performing excellently above your peers • Achieving an outstanding academic feat • Breaking up a record to set up a new one • AN EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENT

  3. Resources for Academic Exploits • Personal commitment and determination • Enabling academic environments • Parental guidance and direction • God • FINANCE

  4. Finance: A limiting resource Suleiman et al., 2012

  5. Finance: A limiting resource • While all other resources are as important just as finance, it is crystal clear that finance has affected academic performance of students more. • Psychological • Moral • Social • Health • Loss of studying time

  6. Harnessing Scholarship Opportunities • Any solution in sight to the problem of financial crisis? • Yes, scholarship opportunities!!! • The objectives of this symposium are: • to expose students to available various scholarship opportunities. • to acquaint students with conditions to be successful in applications for some of these opportunities.

  7. Scholarship Opportunities • Funding opportunities can be: • Local • International • Local/International Funding opportunities come in different forms: • Agencies • Individuals • Institutions • Funding opportunities depend on the level of education: Postgraduate or undergraduate

  8. Local opportunities • FGN • TetFund • PTDF • NGOs • Private Individuals • Niger-Delta Scholarships • Organizations (Chevron, Agip, MTN etc.)

  9. International opportunities • Foreign agencies: • Third World Academy of Sciences: www.ictp.trieste.it • UNESCO scholarships: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/fellowships/ • OWSD PhD fellowships for women • British Council • Erasmus Mundus: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/funding/scholarships_students_academics_en.php (European Union) • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Germany • J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (USA) : https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/j-william-fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-ffsb • Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (UK)

  10. Foreign agencies contd • E uropean Union • ReSource Award (Sweden) • Volkswagen Foundation (Germany) • DFID (UK) • MacArthur Foundation (USA) • Ford Foundation (USA) • Carnegie Foundation (USA) etc.

  11. Country-affiliated opportunities: Australia: IPRS Scholarship : http://education.gov.au/international-postgraduate-research-scholarships New Zealand: New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship: http://www.enz.govt.nz/how-we-work/scholarships/nzidrs Canada: scholarships.gc.ca Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html Netherlands • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: www.nwo.nl • The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP). http://www.nuffic.nl/en Portugal • Ministry of Science and Technology: www.mct.pt

  12. Japan • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship Program (Ministry of Education, Sport, Science and Technology): www.mext.go.jp Brasil • TWAS-CNPq Postgraduate Fellowship: ww.cnpq.br Malaysia • TWAS-USM Postgraduate Fellowship Programme: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas-usm-postgraduate-fellowship-programme

  13. Mexico • TWAS-CONACYT Postgraduate Fellowship Programme: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas-conacyt-postgraduate-fellowship-programme South Africa • TWAS-NRF Doctoral Programme: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas-nrf-doctoral-programme

  14. Finland • Academy of Finland: www.aka.fi • Ministry of Education: www.minedu.fi • National Fund for Research and Development: www.sitra.fi

  15. 1. Agbami Medical & Engineering Scholarship For 100/200  Levels • The scholarship program, funded by Star Deep and its Agbami partners, is a major component of the Agbami partners’ Social Investment in the strategic development of Health and Education in Nigeria and the Niger Delta in particular. • Worth: Medical awardees = N200, 000;Engineering Students awards = N100,000 2. NNPC/Chevron Scholarship For 200 Level Chevron Nigeria Limited, in collaboration with its Joint Venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is offering a number of University Scholarship Awards to suitably qualified Nigerian students. • Worth: N150,000

  16. 3. NNPC/Addax Scholarship for 100L • The company, Addax Petroleum Development (Nig) Limited, offers the National Merit Tertiary Institutions Scholarship Awards Scheme for undergraduate students in Nigeria. • Worth: N100,000 4. NLNG Scholarship For 100 Level • The Nigeria LNG Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme, launched in October 2012, is an overseas programme aimed at supporting the emergence of indigenous experts, professionals or entrepreneurs especially; but not exclusively, within the oil and gas industry. • Worth: N150,000

  17. 5. SPDC (Shell) Scholarship For 100 Level • The University Scholarship Scheme, a programme run by SPDC on behalf of the NNPC/Shell/Elf/Agip Joint Venture, makes a quiet but very profound commentary on the company’s interest in the promotion of capacity building in the country. • Worth:N75,000 6. PTDF Scholarship For 200 Level • The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) is a parastatal of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources established by Decree 25 of 1973 with a mandate to train Nigerians towards active participation in the Oil and Gas Industry. PTDF has over the years awarded postgraduate scholarships in Oil and Gas courses. • Worth: N150,000 Plus Laptop during first payment.

  18. 7. MTN Foundation Scholarship For 200 Level • The MTN Foundation Science & Technology Scholarship Scheme is for full time second year students studying in public tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics and colleges of education) in Nigeria. The scholarship provides financial assistance to students who may be unable to pay for their tertiary education and aims to recognize and reward academic excellence. • Worth: N200,000

  19. 8. Federal Government Scholarship Award For 200/300/400 Levels • The Federal Government of Nigeriathrough the Federal Ministry of Educationthrough the Federal Scholarship Board is offering the Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) Oversea Scholarshipsto Nigerian undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. • The BEA Awards are scholarship awards made to eligible Nigerian youths after due process by development partners who have entered into Bilateral Educational agreement with Nigeria. Nigeria equally offers reciprocal awards to citizens of the following Bilateral Education Agreement countries: China, Romania, and Cuba.

  20. Eligibility (A). Undergraduate Scholarship • All applicants for undergraduate degree courses must possess a minimum qualification of Five (5) Distinctions (As & Bs) in the Senior Secondary School Certificate, WAEC or NECO (May/June) only in the subjects relevant to their field of study including English language and Mathematics. • Certificates should not be more than Two (2) years old • Age limit is 22 years (minimum age of 18years and maximum 22 years old at the time of taking up the award).

  21. (B). Postgraduate Scholarship • All applicants must hold a First Degree with at least 2nd Class Upper Division. • The applicants who are previous recipients of Foreign Awards must have completed at least Two (2) years post qualification or employment practice in Nigeria. • A knowledge of the Foreign language of the donor country is desired particularly for those applying for Russian Award. • All applicants must have completed NYSCE. • Age limit is 35 years for Masters and 40 years for Ph.D. • Worth:N150,000

  22. Graduate Studies in US Universities • Often provided by the universities and the levels of support varies • Funding opportunities: • Teaching assistantship • Research assistantship • Graduate fellowship

  23. Procedures for application • Search for the program of interest • Have a brief knowledge of research interest • Contact a potential faculty advisor usually via e-mail • Plan to write requisite tests (GRE/GMAT/TOEFL) before the deadline • Officially apply: Get competent people to write referee report.

  24. Pay attention to details !!! • PRAY ! PRAY!! PRAY!!! • Relevant verses: • Deut 28: 12, 13; Dan 1: 17-20; Phil 4:19; Ps 84:11; LK 12:24; Ps 34:10; 37:25

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