Ireland Fellows Programme – Kader Asmal Fellowship 2027/2028 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 27, 2026

Applications are open for the Ireland Fellows Programme – Kader Asmal Fellowship 2027/2028. The Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme is a completely-funded scholarship OPPORTUNITY supplied to South African college students to study at Master’s stage in Ireland’s world-famend Higher Education Institutions.

This flagship programme of the Embassy of Ireland in South Africa is part of the broader Ireland-Africa Fellows Programme supplied by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs. The Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme is focused at early profession professionals in South Africa, with management potential.

The scholarship broadly helps management for the Sustainable Development Goals and supporting the event of ladies’s management capability and ladies’s participation in STEM are key priorities. In addition, the Kader Asmal Fellowship Programme goals to assist college students who wouldn’t in any other case have the chance to pursue Master’s stage schooling in Ireland, and graduates of Universities of Historical Disadvantage and Universities of Technology particularly are inspired to apply.

Benefits

The Kader Asmal Fellowships will cowl:

• college application charges
• tuition charges
• examination and different charges
• financial system journey to and out of your nation of residence to Ireland;
• settling in allowance, ebook allowance and study allowance
• lodging
• a month-to-month private residing allowance (stipend) to cowl different residing expense for you solely and
• the prices of an entry clearance (pupil customer visa) application

Eligibility

To be eligible for an Ireland Fellows Programme – Kader Asmal award commencing at the start of the tutorial yr 2027, candidates should:

• Be a resident nationwide of South Africa.
• Have a minimal of two years’ substantial work expertise that’s immediately related to your proposed programme(s) of study.
• Hold a bachelor’s stage tutorial qualification from an accredited and authorities-recognised greater schooling establishment, with a minimal grade level common of three.0 (4.0 scale) – i.e. a first-class honour, or second class honour, Grade 1 (a second class honour Grade 2 could also be accepted if the applicant has substantial immediately related work expertise). It should have been awarded in 2015 or later (i.e. inside the final 12 years).
• Not already maintain a qualification at grasp’s stage or greater. Not presently enterprise a programme at grasp’s stage or greater, or be resulting from begin a programme at grasp’s stage or greater within the tutorial yr 2026/2027.
• Be making use of to begin a brand new programme at grasp’s stage in Ireland no before August 2027.
• Be capable of reveal the next: management talents and aspirations; a dedication to the achievement of the SDGs inside your personal nation; and a dedication to contribute to constructing constructive relationships with Ireland.
• Have recognized and chosen three programmes related to your tutorial {and professional} background from the Directory of Eligible Programmes.
• Have a transparent understanding of the tutorial and English language proficiencies required for all programmes chosen.
• Must not have utilized to the Ireland Fellows Programme on a couple of earlier event.
• Be ready to take up the Fellowship within the tutorial yr 2027/2028.

Application

The application course of consists of three levels:

• Preliminary Application
• Detailed Application
• Interviews

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Kader Asmal Fellowship.