Fund Details
Elman and Alfred Poole Southland Boys’ and Southland Girls’ High Schools UC Scholarship (School-Leaver Scholarship)
Award Amount
$5,000 per annum for up to three years

Description:

This scholarship will not be offered for study in 2024

The purpose of this scholarship is to recognise academic achievement, leadership potential, and cultural and community involvement amongst pupils from Southland Boys’ High School and Southland Girls’ High School, while supporting study at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury.

Value/Benefits: Financial assistance at a value of $5,000 per annum for up to three years

Level of Study: School Leaver (First year undergraduate)

Closing Date: 11:59 pm (NZT) 15 August (Applications open approximately 8 weeks before this date.)

Tenure: Up to three years

Number Available Annually: At least two

Applicable Enrolment During Tenure: The scholarship is tenable during full-time enrolment in an undergraduate degree programme at the University

Citizenship/Residency Requirements: Must be a citizen of Aotearoa New Zealand

Special Requirements: All of the final two years of a recipient’s secondary schooling must have been at Southland Boys’ High School or Southland Girls’ High School

For more information, please read the regulations for this award: click here.

Special Eligibility Requirements:

Applicants must:
  • not have been enrolled in a degree programme at any tertiary institute; and
  • have completed the final two years of secondary schooling at Southland Boys' High School or Southland Girls' High School; and
  • be a citizen of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Selection will be based on:
  1. academic achievement, as indicated by quality of achievement at NCEA Level 2, or equivalent university entrance qualifications;
  2. leadership potential; and
  3. involvement in community and cultural activities.
In selecting between applicants of equal merit, preference is given to those who intend to study Forestry or Music at UC.

Additional Information:

Dr Elman Poole passed away in June 2019 and left a bequest to Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, providing an endowment to support this scholarship, which was established in 2021, and PhD travel scholarships at the University. This scholarship replaces the Elman & Alfred Poole Southland Boys’ and Southland Girls’ High School College of Engineering Scholarship, which Dr Poole had established in 2016 with a lifetime gift. Alfred, Elman, and Ivy Poole were children of the late Philip Poole, a well-known cabinetmaker and musician in Invercargill in the 1920s. Philip encouraged his children to get a good education at Southland Boys’ High School, Southland Girls’ School, and the University of Otago. The sons both graduated in Medicine, and Ivy graduated in Teaching. Alfred settled in Invercargill, where his contribution to cardiology as well as to the local community was recognised with a CBE before his death in 2005. Elman specialised in Neurology, and gained a scholarship at the University of Oxford and posts in London at the Institute of Psychiatry and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. After a Rockefeller Fellowship to the Mayo Clinic he returned to the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He later retired to Oxford, UK.

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Scholarships Office at scholarships@canterbury.ac.nz

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