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Australian
Government Scholarships
(ADS and APS) |
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the Indonesian government, the Australian government has been providing
scholarships to study in Australia since the 1950s. In that period,
over 10,000 Indonesians have studied in Australia using these scholarships.
Currently the Australian Government offers 2 types of scholarships
to Indonesians for study at the postgraduate level. The first of
these scholarships is the Australian
Development Scholarship or ADS as it is known. The ADS program
offers over 300 scholarships per year for employees from the public
and private sector. During the past 5 years, more than 1500 Australian
Development Scholarships have been awarded.
In 2005, another 300 scholarships will be available and applications
close for the ADS on September 9th. |
ADS and APS scholarships - the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia,
Mr. David Ritchie, officially launching the new Australian Partnership
Scholarships (APS) in Jakarta on June 28th, 2005.
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In addition to the 300 ADS program, there will be an
additional 600 special scholarships awarded during 2005 and 2006.
These scholarships are called Australian
Partnership Scholarships or APS. The objective of the APS
program is to develop the human resource capacity of Indonesia in
the areas of Economic Governance, Public Sector Management and Education.
These scholarships are part of the response by the Australian Government
to the Tsunami disaster of 2004 and form part of the much larger program
known as the Australia Indonesia Program for Reconstruction and Development
or AIPRD. |
David Spiller from ADS with prospective applicants
for ADS and APS scholarships in Ende, July 2005.
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Both the ADS program and the APS program include pre-departure
English language training (provided by the IALF in Jakarta and Bali)
for the scholarship awardees. The scholarships also cover all tuition
fees in Australia, medical insurance, a generous allowance for living
expenses and return airfares. There is even a provision for the immediate
family to join the scholarship awardee in Australia and children can
be educated at an Australian Government school as part of the scholarship
benefits. |
In summary, the Australian Government, in cooperation with the Indonesian
Government, will provide over 2 years (2005 and 2006), a total of 1200
postgraduate scholarships to Indonesians to study at Australian universities.
That number consists of 600 scholarships from the ADS program and 600
from the APS program. There has never been a better time to apply for
an Australian postgraduate scholarship than now.
Let’s briefly review these two AusAID funded scholarship schemes.
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Development Scholarships
The long running and successful ADS scheme provides scholarships
for students from the public and private sector. Applicants must
have their S1 degree. Their GPA must be 2,9 or above. Applicants
need an IELTS score of 5.0 or a TOEFL score of 500. Applications
for ADS scholarships are already open and close on September 9th,
2005. |
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Australian
Partnership Scholarships
The newly introduced APS scheme is for postgraduate study in Australian
universities. Applicants must have their S1 or S2 degree from an
Indonesian university. Their GPA must be 2,9 or above. Applicants
need an IELTS score of 5.0 or a TOEFL score of 500. APS applications
for 2005 close on August 5th, 2005 BUT applications for APS
for 2006 will open again on May 8th, 2006 and close July 14, 2006.
Read
AusAID's website about these two scholarship schemes |
Please contact ADS and APS directly
to find out more about these
scholarships and the differences between them.
ADS Alumni in Palu
Meet some of these people and read about their adventures in
Australia with ADS plus some news from 2004 with
ADS students studying at IALF Bali.
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