Cecil Renaud Overseas Scholarship 2027 for Studies in the United Kingdom – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Cecil Renaud Overseas Scholarship 2027. The Overseas Scholarship, granted yearly to at least one or two college students, is awarded for a most of two years for put up-graduate study (Masters diploma (or equal) or PhD) in the United Kingdom at a college of the scholar’s alternative.

Since 1994, they’ve awarded 38 scholarships to the finest and brightest younger South Africans. In previous years college students who’ve been awarded the Scholarship have attended, inter alia, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the University of London throughout a variety of disciplines. This Scholarship is obtainable solely to college students who accomplished their secondary education at any college in KwaZulu-Natal, and also you should be in your last 12 months of a postgraduate honours diploma, or 4-12 months undergraduate diploma.

Dr Cecil Renaud, a nicely-recognized Durban Philanthropist, established The Cecil Renaud Educational and Charitable Trust in 1988. Dr Renaud handed away on June 3, 1993 and bequeathed the residue of his property to the Trust. Shortly after the Trust turned energetic, the trustees established the Overseas Scholarship.

Eligibility

• Open to postgraduate college students who’ve accomplished or are presently finding out in direction of an Honours diploma; or a 4 12 months undergraduate diploma;
• Applicants ought to have attained, or purpose to realize, undergraduate or Honours diploma(s) cum laude or summa cum laude; and moreover, have achieved Dean’s Commendations and Certificates of Merit or equal;
• They are trying for candidates who could have a big influence on their subject of study, and the world;
• Have a very good monitor document in extracurricular actions and a drive to succeed and uplift South Africa;
• Applicants should have accomplished a significant part of their secondary education in KwaZulu-Natal, and be below the age of 27 at the time of making use of for the scholarship;
• Former students have learn in direction of assorted fields together with an MPhil in Development Studies, an MA in Applied Theology, an MSc in Mathematics and an MA in Singing.

Application

Send the accomplished application and supporting documentation to [email protected] (and the tackle on the kind) on or earlier than the thirtieth of September. Following the application deadline, candidates will probably be shortlisted and invited to interview. After the interviews, the trustees might choose as much as two candidates.

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For extra data, go to Cecil Renaud Overseas Scholarship.