The Regional Journalism Scholarship is being offered to First year Regional or Remote Journalism students as part of the Regional Journalism Scholarships program which was one of the three measures announced as part of the Government's Regional and Small Publishers Jobs and Innovation Package.
The purpose of the Scholarship is to assist scholarship recipients in acquiring the skills and knowledge necessary to operate effectively as journalists in a regional or remote area in the contemporary news media industry and to be job ready at the completion of their studies.
This activity received grant funding from the Australian Government.
Selection will be based on application and interview.
Open from 27/Feb/2019 to 14/Apr/2019
Value
$8,000 per annum
Duration
Three (3) Years
Level of Enrolment
First Year
Graduate Type
Undergraduate
Number Available
Two (2)
Year of Scholarship
Autumn 2019
Degree
Bachelor of Journalism
Offer Type
Scholarship
Category
A
Broad Study Area
Media, Communications & Journalism
Faculty
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
Application Criteria
Applicants must remain enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Wollongong Campus for the duration of this scholarship;
Applicants must be enrolled in the first year of a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Wollongong
Applicants must be an Australian Citizen or Australian Permanent Resident.
Eligible students to have resided in a regional or remote area for a total of at least three (3) of the last five (5) years, and completed their last two (2) years schooling in a high school or college in a regional or remote area. A regional or remote area is an area classified as Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote or Very Remote by the Australian Statistical Geography standard (i.e. RA2- RA5)
