[APES Jobs] FW: [saabnet] SAAB honours bursaries available

[Bursaries, Employment and Career Opportunities in Environmental Fields]

Barend Erasmus
Associate professor: School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand

+27 11 717 6449 (office)
+27 11 717 6494 (fax)

From: SAAB Secretary [mailto:forsaab at telkomsa.net]
Sent: 10 December 2013 12:32 PM
To: saabnet at kendy.up.ac.za
Subject: [saabnet] SAAB honours bursaries available

Each year the South African Association of Botanists awards "SAAB Scholarships", to  SADEC graduates with 70% or above grade average. In 2014, three awards of R10 000 for 1 year of tertiary study at Honours level (or 4th year level of study) in any botanically-related science will be granted to three registered students, on a competitive basis.  The successful applicants should study at a South African institution and should be (or apply to become) a member of SAAB.  The supervisor of the student must be a paid-up member of SAAB.

 How to apply (please include with application):

1.       Submit a curriculum vitae with names of two referees.

2.       Provide a letter of motivation from your honours/4th year project supervisor

3.       Submit certified academic transcripts.

4.       Provide a one page motivation, including a description of your honours/ 4th year research interests.

5.       Disclose name(s) of other bursaries/scholarships applied for and amount(s).

6.       Post your application by the deadline: 22 February 2014.

 No late applications will be considered. The Council also reserves the rights not to make any awards should the candidates not fulfil all criteria.  Successful candidates will be notified mid-March of the year of the award.  The decision of the adjudicating committee is final.

 Please post applications electronically (in .pdf format) to: forsaab at telkomsa.net<mailto:forsaab at telkomsa.net>


For enquiries contact:

 Dr Nox P Makunga

makunga at sun.ac.za<mailto:makunga at sun.ac.za>

021 808 3061
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Myke Scott
Secretary: SAAB
South African Association of Botanists
Cell:  084 9543591
Fax:  086 5457933
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