Scholarships and Prizes
Agriculture
Scholarships
Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) Cadetship Program
The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) offers sponsored cadetships to students finishing VCE or first-year university, who are keen to study an approved science degree at a recognised Victorian university. Each cadet would receive an annual allowance of $9000, a book allowance of up to $500 for each year of study, access to hands-on job experience during their university course and is assured of four years of full-time work upon graduating. For further information and an ‘Expression of Interest' form, contact the DSE website: www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/ and type ‘Careers' in KeySearch.
Rural Finance Corporation Scholarships ($6,000)
Rural Finance offers up to six new scholarships each year across different Rural Finance regions. Scholarships are awarded to first or second-year students undertaking their first undergraduate degree, which is agriculturally related, at a tertiary institution in Victoria . Students must be under the age of 26 years as at 1 January in the year of application to university. Additionally they must be able to demonstrate a career commitment to agriculture, not only students planning to take up farming as a career but also students planning to provide consultancy, research, technological and other advice to agricultural industries. Scholarships are worth up to $6000 per year for the duration of the course. Further information and application forms can be obtained from the Rural Finance website: www.ruralfinance.com.au .
Applications close 31 May each year.
Prizes
Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (Melbourne) Prize ($100)
Awarded to the best overall fourth-year Bachelor of Agricultural Science student.
For further information regarding prizes offered by the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, phone: (03) 9479 2220 or email: sci.tech@latrobe.edu.au
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