Everything you need to know about the Australia Awards Scholarship 2024
How does getting the full tuition fee, living expenses and even getting money to study in Australia sounds? Great, right.
Well, Australia Awards Scholarship can make this dream come true.
In this article, we are covering everything you need to know about the Australia Awards Scholarship 2024.
What is an Australia Awards Scholarship?
Australia Awards is an Australian Government’s prestigious scholarship offered to students from developing nations to study in Australia.
This scholarship covers not only tuition fees but airfares, living costs, OSHC and provides students stipends also.
In 2023, Australian government awarded 1,141 scholarships worth $250 million to students from 55 developing nations.
The purpose of this scholarship is to help Australia’s partner countries to develop and promote growth and stability in the region.
Opening Date and Closing Date
The application for Australia Awards Scholarships usually opens around from Feb till April every year. The actual dates can vary based each year.
Applications for the year 2024 are open from 1 February 2024 to 30 April 2024 11:59pm AEST. If you are planning to get this scholarship, then you must apply between this timeframe.
Benefits
If you are awarded with Australia Awards scholarship, you can be receive the following benefits:
- Full Tuition Fee
- Return airfare expenses
- Establishment expenses
- Health Cover (Overseas Students Health Cover)
- Introductory Academic Program
- Living expenses contribution
- Additional academic support
- Pre-course English fees
- Fieldwork costs (for research students)
Documents Required to Apply
You might be required to submit these documents when applying for an Australia Award scholarship:
- Passport
- Birth Certificate
- CV or Resume
- Reference letters
- Academic transcripts
- Copy of certificates
- IELTS results (if available)
- Plan to return home
Additional documents might be required by the Australian government in order to assess your application. The documents required can also vary for the each eligible country.
Selection process
The selection process for Australia Award scholarships is very competitive. Only eligible and shortlisted are contacted for this scholarship.
You will need to go through an interview as well if you get shortlisted.
The selection criteria are based on the three main aspects:
- Your academic competence
- Potential outcome for your home country after your studies
- Professional and personal leadership attributes, including relevant work experience.
How to Apply
Before you start applying for Australia Awards Scholarship, you will need to read the Australia Awards Scholarships Policy Handbook.
This handbook gives you all the information you need to apply this scholarship including participating institutions, the selection process, your entitlements, responsibilities and general ideas about the eligibility requirements.
After that, you will need to apply for this scholarship via OASIS portal (Online Australia Scholarships Information System) except for Indonesian and Philippines Students.
If you are a student from Indonesia, you need to apply here and if you are student from Philippines, you need to apply here.
Let’s talk about the students applying via the OASIS portal.
First, you will need to register online via the portal.
After registration, you will be issued a unique registration number, username and password in your email. It can take a few minutes for this email to arrive.
Once you log in after changing your temporary password, there will be a few questions to ascertain your eligibility for this scholarship.
Then you need to start a new application for this scholarship and complete the details for all the parts of the application.
The sections of the application you will need to complete include:
- Personal Details
- Contact Details
- Spouse Details (if applicable)
- Children Details (if applicable)
- Emergency Contact Details
- Previous Scholarships
- Proposed Study Program
- Qualifications
- English Language Details
- Computer Literacy Details
- Computer Training Details
- Current Employment
- Previous Employment
- Supporting Statement
- Professional Memberships
- Communication
- Documentary Evidence
- Declaration
You will be required to submit all the supporting documents for your application via OASIS portal.
Note: You don’t need to complete the application immediately. You can save the draft and complete the application at a later stage. Although you must submit the application before the closing date.
Tips for the application
Here are some tips that might help you in preparing your application:
- As the selection process is very competitive, Ideally you should be spending time and efforts preparing your application.
- Explain your motivation to study in Australia and your course selection.
- Highlight your English language skills
- Provide any relevant information for work experience
- Show any leadership qualities
- Challenges faced by your home country and how the study can help you make an impact in your professional area in your home country
Participating countries for this scholarship
Please note that each year the Australian government decides to choose various developing countries for this scholarship. The list of countries can vary each year.
If your home country is not on the list this year, please check back next year for that.
Alternatively, you can check other fully funded scholarships for international students here.
For the year 2023, students from these countries are eligible to apply for this scholarship:
Asia
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Timor-Leste
- Vietnam
Pacific
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
Middle East
- Occupied Palestinian Territories
Africa
List of countries in Africa include:
- Algeria
- Benin
- Botswana
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Important Conditions
If you wish to apply and receive this scholarship, then you need to meet these important conditons:
- You will need to sign a contract with the Commonwealth of Australia that you will meet the conditions of the scholarship.
- You will be required to leave Australia for a minimum of 2 years after completing this scholarship.
If you fail to meet these conditions, then you will need to pay back the total cost of the scholarship back to the Australian government.
In order to get the complete picture of the scholarship, please check the policy handbook for the Australia Awards Scholarship here.
Are there any courses that I can’t study under this scholarship?
Yes, there are certain courses and areas that you can’t study under this scholarship, including:
- Flying aircraft
- Nuclear technology
- Military training
Importantly, the study program you choose must be related to your country’s priority areas for development. Check the links above (in the participating countries) for your country.
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