Deadline: 11-Oct-22
The New South Wales (NSW) Government is pleased to announce the Aboriginal Environmental Health Scholarships.
Benefits
The scholarship is worth up to $30,000 for a full degree, potentially leaving you with no HECS-HELP debt.
- Aboriginal environmental health scholarships are awarded each year for:
- Subject fees (successfully completed), reimbursed at the end of semester; and
- $500 a year for student administration fees and tutoring costs (paid in two instalments of $250).
- Scholarship recipients:
- Can study full or part time.
- Will need to provide university result notices at the end of each semester.
- Will need to apply for scholarship funding each year, but continuing recipients have priority for ongoing scholarship funds (conditional on enrolment confirmation and results).
- Environmental Health Officers are in-demand with many job opportunities all over NSW and Australia.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant must be:
- An Aboriginal person.
- A NSW resident (or live within 5km of the NSW border).
- Currently enrolled, or intending to enroll, in the Western Sydney University Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health), or equivalent degree at an interstate university.
- Able to demonstrate an interest in environmental health.
For more information, visit https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/aehs