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Applications are now open for the 2025 FirstRand Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Scholarship. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Opportunity Details
FirstRand Empowerment Foundation (FREF) has entered into a five-year partnership with Wadham College at the University of Oxford. The purpose of this partnership is to enable one outstanding South African student a year to undertake postgraduate study at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment for an MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment. This MSc will provide future leaders and destiny changers with the academic knowledge and applied skills needed to understand and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, environmentally sustainable economic model. This will be the third year of the partnership.
Selection Criteria
Candidates will be assessed based on academic excellence, leadership ability, community involvement and their potential to be a destiny changer.
FirstRand will conduct the interviewing and selection process, which will run concurrently with the FirstRand international postgraduate scholarship programme.
The application deadline for this call is Thursday 20 February 2025.
The closing date for applications to the University of Oxford is 12:00 UK time on Tuesday 28 January 2025. Read more information here.
Candidates may email [email protected] with any additional questions.
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