Applications Open For NZ Discretionary Awards

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Applications Open For NZ Discretionary Awards

Do you have a burning desire to complete or continue your educational/vocational training in the UK? If so, did you know that every year, a small number of applications to both individuals and groups are approved to receive an NZ-UK Link Foundation New Zealand Discretionary Award??

Applications have just opened for the 2009-10 Fellowships and will close again at 5pm on Friday 31 July 2009.

Anyone may apply for a New Zealand Discretionary Award if they are a citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand. The person must demonstrate the reciprocal benefit of their proposed project to both countries - and be in a position, on completion of the Fellowship, to communicate their experiences to interested groups.

Current Fellows include: Lynne Campbell, a conservator with Christchurch Art Gallery who has attended the twenty second International Institute of Conservators in London; Dr Edwina Pio associate professor and equity co-ordinator for the AUT Business School in Auckland who received assistance to visit the Judge Business School Centre for entrepreneurial learning at Cambridge University; and Penelope Jackson, curator of Tauranga Art Gallery, took up an invitation to give a paper at the Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference at Birkbeck College, University of London.

For an application form contact The Executive Officer, NZ-UK Link Foundation, P O Box 1812, Wellington or by email at link-foundation@clear.net.nz. Or you can find more information and download an application form at the Foundation’s website www.nzuklinkfoundation.org.

The NZ-UK Link Foundation exists to enhance the links between the two countries, it does this through a series of educational, cultural and vocational exchanges in a wide variety of fields, including the New Zealand Discretionary Fellowships. Over 260 indviduals have been assisted in the 19 years since its establishment as part of New Zealand’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 1990.

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Notes to editors

• Former award winners include agricultural editor Tim Fulton who visited the UK in 2008 as part of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators’ jubilee celebrations and three choristers from the Choir of the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul who took part in a tour of the UK. Also assisted have been young portrait artist Freeman White, musical actor Jade Steele and Wellington’s multi-cultural and award-winning Kotuku Choir.

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