Before you apply

The Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship application form is quite long. You cannot see the application form before applications open for your country. As soon as applications for your country open, you should start planning your answers.

The Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship application form requires you to:

• provide your name, birth date, physical address and phone number
• provide an email address: a current email address that you use regularly
• list your preferred courses and the education institution for your scholarship
  • Note: Your preferred courses must progress on from the highest qualification you have previously achieved.

  Academic records or transcripts

  With your application form, you need to provide:

  • a copy of your academic records or transcripts, showing your grades
  • the grading scale of your education institution
  • translations of these documents into English.

  At this stage, your academic records don’t need to be verified by an official. Verified records are stamped and signed by a solicitor, a notary public or a Justice of the Peace. Their signature confirms that your academic record is genuine.

  Applying for PhD study

  Scholarship applicants may apply to undertake doctoral studies in any of the identified sectors. You must, however, be able to show that there are employment opportunities on your return that require you to undertake unsupervised post-doctoral research, or to teach at degree level. You must also be able to show how your proposed research proposal will benefit your country. PhD scholarship applicants who make it to the interview stage will need to provide evidence at the interview that they have either secured a supervisor or are in active discussions with a potential supervisor.

  PhD and Master’s by Thesis applicants must describe their proposed research

  If you apply for a PhD scholarship or a Master's scholarship (by thesis), on your application form you need to describe: