Friends of the University John Lambert Scholarship in Computing and Information Technology

Donor

Friends of the University of Newcastle

Establishment

The Friends of the University were established in 1981 to foster an awareness of the university and its place in the community, and to conduct activities including fundraising that promote the interests of the university. Since that time, via their biennial book fair, the Friends have raised over $1,000,000 and contributed towards scholarships, art works, music, rare books, infrastructure and more. This scholarship was established by the Friends of the University to support a student who has completed the Open Foundation course and is enrolling in an undergraduate degree in the following year. John Lambert was the treasurer for the Friends from 1991 – 2001. John Lambert was a university academic, mathematician and computer expert. His management and recording of book fair finances earned the comment from one of the senior organisers of the fair that “he is the very engine room of the book fair”.

Applicable to: Open Foundation, high achievers, educational or financial disadvantage.

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 enrolled in 1st,or 2nd year of an undergraduate Computer or Information Technology degree program with 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 progress either by the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) or equivalent required for entry for commencing students, or a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 for continuing students.
• Be an Australian citizen, Australian Permanent Resident (includes New Zealand Permanent Residents).
• 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.

• A personal statement (approx. 1 A4 page) outlining your academic achievements, career aspirations in the relevant area of study, and how this scholarship would assist you. This statement will cover all scholarships you are submitting for.

• You may be required to provide documents to support your educational disadvantage claims. These will be identified when you apply based on your individual application responses.

Benefit

The scholarship provides a benefit of $4,000, paid as $2000 after the semester one and two census dates.

Selection

Selection is a competitive process and will be based on assessment of the scholarship application with reference to the eligibility criteria and assessment of educational disadvantage.

Selection will be made by the Scholarships Officer with consideration of, in order:

• All eligibility criteria for the scholarship being met; and
• Demonstrated educational disadvantage.
• Academic merit may be considered.

All applicants will be notified of an outcome via email. This will occur within 6 weeks of the scholarship application closing date.

College

College of Engineering Science and Environment

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