Scholarship

Scholarship is an award rather than a qualification.

Scholarship is the senior secondary school award for New Zealand's most

able students.

Learners who have been awarded Scholarship in a subject will have demonstrated:

• High level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and

• Ability to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge,

skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations.

Background

Depending on the learning area, a range of the following will have also been displayed:

• Comprehensive content knowledge;• Effective communication;• Original or sophisticated solutions, performances

or approaches;• Critical evaluation;• Flexible thinking in unfamiliar/unexpected

contexts

Background• Scholarships is awarded to 2-3% of the cohort in each subject

• Cohort is defined as the candidates enrolled in the subject at NCEA Level 3

• Assessment is restricted to content of the L3 achievement standards for that subject, derived from L8 of the NZ curriculum or its equivalent

• Candidates must be enrolled full-time at a NZ secondary school

• To receive a Scholarship a candidate must be a permanent resident of New Zealand.

• Award of Scholarship does not generate credits or contributes towards a qualification

• Student performance be assessed against an assessment schedule that ensures a ranking of candidates is produced using marks or grades.

Awards for successful candidates

• The Scholarship Awards are:• Single Subject Award• For students who get Scholarship in up to two subjects

– A 'one-off' award of $500 per subject• Top Subject Scholar Award• For students who are top in one of the 27 Scholarship subjects

– $2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain a 'B' grade average in tertiary study in a New Zealand institution

• Scholarship Award• For students who get three Scholarship subjects

– $2,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain a 'B' grade average in tertiary study in a New Zealand institution

• Outstanding Scholar Award• For the top 40-60 students who get three Scholarship subjects with at least two outstanding

performances – $5,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain a `B' grade average in

tertiary studies in a New Zealand institution• Premier Award• For the very top 5 to 10 students who get three Scholarships with outstanding

performances • $10,000 each year for three years as long as students maintain at least a `B' grade average in

tertiary studies in a New Zealand institution

Scholarship Premier and Top Subject Award

• The top performers in the 2009 NZ Scholarship examinations have been named by NZQA.

• In total, 37 students make up the Premier Award and Top Subject Award winners for 2009.  

• For 2009, eight students gained Premier awards. These students gained at least four Scholarship subjects at Outstanding level, OR a total of five Scholarships, with three at Outstanding level, and were ranked in the top three nationally in at least two subjects.

• Premier Awards, carry a monetary award of $30,000 over three years of tertiary study. Four of the eight Premier Award winners were also Top Subject Scholars.

• LOOk at the following school for outstanding achievements: 57 scholarships http://www.saintkentigern.com/college/news.asp?CategoryID=9&ID=716