In this video, I will introduce to you Australian scholarships
called Australian awards. And we are starting right after this
intro
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every Tuesday and Friday. No What are these Australian
awards? These are the awards offered by Australian government
and administered by these three departments Department of
Foreign Affairs and trades Department of Education and
Training and Australia's center of international Agriculture
Research. Now what is the purpose of these scholarships?
The purpose of these scholarships is to contribute to
the development needs of Australia's partner countries.
So the idea is that talented people from these countries come
to Australia get exposure to high quality education and get
some experience then go back to their country and contribute for
the development of their own country. And this is also one of
the condition of these scholarship that they must
return back to their country for at least two years. But before
we talk all these details, the important thing is that you
should understand the purpose of the scholarship. So let's first
have a look at what benefits you will get from this scholarship.
So I have listed these benefits here. So you will get full
tuition fee for your course then then 30,000 Australian dollars
per year as your living allowance. You will also get an
airfare to join your study program, then also an airfare
for the reunion with your family. After at least 12 months
of living in Australia, the scholarship will also pay your
overseas Student Health Cover. And also you will get 5000
establishment allowance when you reach Australia so that you can
buy certain home contents and some other things and they will
also give you $500 every six months as a supplement to
support and Australia is a society which cares a lot about
disabled people. So if you have a severe kind of disability,
then your carer will also get 30,000 per year, are you making
these videos about getting scholarships because I have got
many scholarships in Pakistan, my country of origin and in
Australia. And based on my experience, I try to put all the
key information in this video. So you don't have to go
anywhere. But if you are applying for this scholarship.
So I would advise that for this particular austalian Awards, you
need to read three PDF documents. One I have listed
already, under the benefits as you can see that policy
Handbook, but there are three PDF documents which you should
read. So this is the list of these three documents which you
should be reading and how Australian awards work is that
Australian government collaborates with the high
commission of your country, they work together to select the
awardees for these scholarships. So first, what you do is you go
to their website and from that website, you have to click on
the participating countries. And then you click the name of your
own country. And then you will get another PDF. This is the
second PDF you will get the first is the policy handbook.
And this is the second PDF which is the countries specific
information for you. So if you are an Indian student, and I
will shortly demonstrate the process for India because they
have a very good process set for these scholarships. So you just
click on India, and then you will get another PDF, which is
specific for the Indian students. And then you read that
PDF and the last PDF which you should read. The third one is
the OSS User Guide for submitting applications. This is
the website where you have to apply. So I will talk a talk
about this in a minute.
So these are the three PDFs which you should read if you are
applying for visa scholarships. No, this is the most important
slide in this video, I would say because in this slide, I have
mentioned what the authorities are looking for in issue to
select you as an awardee of this scholarship. So there are three
main things here. The first is the academic excellence. And the
second is the leadership qualities you had. And the third
thing is how your study course the program in which you are
trying to get admission, how that study program aligns with
that development needs of your country. So these are three
important things. And the good thing about this scholarship is
that in most other scholarships, your academic excellence weighs
a lot more than any other thing but for this scholarship as far
as my opinion or my experience is concerned, the other two
attributes are more important than your academic excellence.
And those are your leadership qualities and how your study
program aligns with the development needs of your
country because the purpose of this scholarship as I mentioned,
include
Number two, that the purpose of this scholarship is to
contribute to the development needs of the country of the
developing countries. So this is what Australian government is
trying to achieve, they are trying to get some future
leaders. So they are not only looking at your grades that you
have got for GPA, but you are a very shy person who just lives
in isolated room all day long. No, they are looking for some
leadership attributes in you. So therefore, your leadership
qualities, and how used or your study program aligns with the
needs of your country, this is the most important thing. So how
do we get this information about what your country needs. So as I
mentioned, the second PDF, the country specific information,
which you will get from the High Commission website, your
country's High Commission website, that information that
document that PDF, in most cases that contains what are the
priority study areas for your country? So they have mentioned
few areas there? It's agriculture, it's the woman
extra disability, whatever. So first of all, you have to
identify what are those areas. And the second important thing
is, you have to find a study program in Australia, that
fulfills all that criteria for this scholarship. And this I
will show you in another slide that when I showed you what are
the step by step process for this scholarship, you have to
find a study program which matches your country's
requirement. No, here are two important things you have to do.
First of all, you have to demonstrate that you have
leadership skills before you can demonstrate that. So there are
other videos available on YouTube, ie This is not my
topic. Otherwise, I could have make a video about how to
demonstrate the leadership skills. But there are a lot of
videos available on YouTube, you will have a look at those videos
and you understand that how you can demonstrate to your
leadership skills. So this is one thing. The second thing is
how you will demonstrate that you have selected the field of
study appropriately. So for these some countries, they have
given it a name as a development impact plan. But in Australian
policy Handbook, they call it reintegration plan. So whatever
you call it, whether it's a reintegration plan or
integration means that when you get the education in Australia,
and when you come back with the knowledge and ideas, how is your
knowledge and ideas will affect the development of your country.
So this is reintegration, but on Pakistani High Commission
website, they call it as a development impact plan. So
whatever you call it, but you have to write a document showing
that your field of study will benefit your country. And know
from this point onwards In this video, I am going to share some
specific information for only those students who are serious
to apply. And I will show you one example of India because the
Indian process is very established. And the second
reason is that India is the largest country among all these
countries, because some other countries might have a little
bit different procedure. So you have to contact your high
commission regarding the details of this whole process. So first
of all, I will show you what are the few steps which you should
do in order to get this scholarship and then I will show
the Indian government process that how they process the
applications. And that will help you to understand the process.
Now these are the five steps which you should do to get this
scholarship are to get your application ready. So the first
step is read these three PDFs which I mentioned earlier, and
then you will get the better understanding of the whole
process. The better than watching this video, of course,
then you find the study area where your country needs to
develop. And then you have to find the course this scholarship
is available for vocational education and training for
bachelor program for masters or PhD or even I think for postdoc
as well, which you can extend after going there for a PhD. So
this is scholarships available for all these programs. The only
thing important is that you have to find a program, which
fulfills the criteria of the scholarship. And this is written
in the policy handbook. And for example, one example would be
that only those courses are eligible, which have less than
26% online portion of the course. So if the course is
fully online, it's not it's not fulfilling the criteria of the
Australian Government and you will not get the scholarship. So
the course which has only less than 26% online portion is
eligible. So this is one thing but there are some other things
so you have to see in the policy handbook and then finally you
have to prepare the development impact plan. As I explained
earlier, before I show you the Indian example of how they
process the application. I would like to
To show you the website where you have to apply for this
scholarship. So this website is shown here. This is called the
online Australia Awards information system. So this is a
portal will you have to apply for this scholarship. And they
have mentioned all the details in our user guide. So this is
the third PDF, which we referred and who they have examples, they
show you how to fill the form, everything is on that user
guide, just read it and apply for the scholarship. And no,
these are the five tips when you are reading these PDFs, which I
referred again, and again, these five tips will be beneficial for
you. So whenever you are reading because the first PDF, the
policy handbook is up 140 page document. So you don't want to
read this again and again. So therefore, make notes of all the
important things while you are reading so that you don't have
to read it again. Then on page 12 to 16 of that policy
Handbook, you have a glossary of terms and acronyms. So just make
sure that you read that. So you will understand what is a
program area because this program area you will see
everywhere on the PDF, what is the integration plan, for
example, so read those glossary of terms so that you can
understand the document while you are reading. Otherwise, it
would just be a reading, then you have to make a timeline. So
you you should understand that when a particular document will
be ready when you have to apply for our eyes examination or a
TOEFL examination and what are the dates so try to make a
timeline. Try to note all the documents when you are reading
this. So while you are reading the PDFs, you will understand
Okay, I need this document. Okay, tickets are noted so that
you can understand what documents are required and you
don't miss anything. So these are some tips listed here. So
you can have a look and see how can you make use of these. And
now I will show you the example of Indian Government, they have
a very good system for these scholarships. So these are some
of the institute's which can nominate candidates for the
scholarships, though India have listed these institute that only
these Institute's are eligible to nominate awardees, and every
Institute can nominate up to a four awardees and the government
recommends that there should be looking for women and disabled
people and the people who are traditionally marginalized in
India. So they should be recommending these type of
candidates for these scholarships. But it's up to the
institute how they nominate though the way it works is that
you have to plan one year ahead for if you are seeking a
scholarship for the next year. So make sure that this
recommendation this nomination you get from your institute,
either in your final year or when you just finished because
if you are more than one year late, then your institute cannot
nominate you. So this is one thing you should note. The
second thing is that you should apply to OSS website, which I
described earlier between February and Efrain. And then by
15th of May, you have to apply it to the Indian government as
well, India government has an office so you have to apply
there. And then you have to also plan your English language exam.
If you have to. If you're appearing in ice exam, which is
the Australian exam, I would recommend going for isles and
you have to get 6.5 and no band less than six. So, this is the
English language requirement, you should plan ahead so that
you can get the result before the interview date. So don't
wait for June that interview list comes if you are planning
for this scholarship, you should prepare your English language
and then in July you will be interviewed in New Delhi from
Indian government officials and then the successful candidates
will be listed by first of August and you apply the visa
this interview and the pre departure briefing These are two
requirements of this scholarship by Australian government. So
therefore, Indian Government has to conduct any government has to
conduct their interview and this pre departure briefing and every
government should have this kind of very fair system easy to
understand process and if your country does not have this, then
you must complain this you must complain that your government
has not set any predefined process because a will go
scholarship and if there is no guideline for how to apply what
are the dates or how to get nomination there is no set thing
it means that only few people who know about this day can send
anybody because not many people know about this. So you should
complain this to Australian authorities as well that your
government has not set any guidelines there are no dates
there are no process of nomination there is no process
of listing there is no set dates for pre departure meeting
briefing. So you should report this so that your process could
be improved because this is the
good opportunity for you. And then after this briefing, then
you will be ready for going to Australia. And then you should
depart for Australia by the next year, January because the
session starts in February. So this is how it works. No, this
last slide is the essence of this video. So whatever I have
talked about in this video is summarized on this slide. The
only thing which I didn't talk about is the story building a
story. So after looking at aluminized, the previous
awardees of this scholarship, you should build your own story,
that what is the current development situation of your
country in this particular field of study, and how your study
will go on to improve this situation. So if your story is
effective, so anybody would be able to identify it very
quickly, and your application will stand out and you do have a
better chance of getting this this scholarship. So I hope you
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