Catherine and Peter Tay for Singapore Alumni (follow on) Scholarship

Donor

Catherine and Peter Tay Excellence Fund

Establishment

This scholarship was established in 2018 by Catherine and Peter Tay from Singapore. It is a continuing demonstration of appreciation that 50 years earlier in 1968, Dr Peter Tay received his undergraduate education for a double degree in Industrial Engineering and Economics from the University of Newcastle through a Colombo Plan Scholarship from the Australian Government. That scholarship became a stepping stone in Peter’s life-long achievements, and helped him to become what he is today.

After being fully involved in the establishment, governance and fundraising for the Singapore Alumni Scholarship since 2011, including chairing the Singapore Alumni Scholarship Committee, Peter has come to appreciate that there is a need to support gifted and disadvantaged students who were recipients of the Singapore Alumni Scholarship in a subsequent year as they continue to cope with those disadvantages while trying to complete their undergraduate degree with good academic results.

This scholarship is open to previous recipients of the Singapore Alumni Scholarship . These students may also like to apply for the Singapore Alumni (follow on) Scholarship .

For more information on this scholarship, please review the full Terms and Conditions .

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must meet the following criteria:

• Be a past recipient of the Singapore Alumni Scholarship .
• Be enrolled in any year of an undergraduate degree program at the University of Newcastle.
• Be enrolled full-time.
• Demonstrate educational disadvantage such as carer, sole parent, financial hardship, English language difficulty, long term medical condition/disability or effects of abuse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Out of Home Care, Refugee, or Geographic.
• Demonstrate academic achievement by having a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.0 or higher in your current program.
• If successful, be willing to submit an essay of approximately 400 words on Singapore and one or more aspects of its people, economy, geography, history, culture, political system etc.
• Not be the recipient of another University of Newcastle donor-funded or sponsored scholarship concurrently.

Required Documentation

If documentation is not provided your application will not be processed. Please have all required documents available for upload as PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, or JPG files prior to completing the online application process.

• Documents required may vary depending on your application responses. Please refer to the Your Documents section of your application for information on what you will need to provide.

Benefit

This scholarship provides a benefit of $4000 to be paid as a lump sum following the semester 1 census date.

Selection

Selection is a competitive process and will be based on assessment of the scholarship application and any required supporting documents.

College

SCHOLARSHIPS OFFICER
Student Services Centre
University of Newcastle
University Drive
CALLAGHAN NSW 2308

Phone: +61 2 4921 5000
Fax: +61 2 4921 5759
Email: scholarships@newcastle.edu.au