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For 60 years, the N.Z. Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust has promoted leadership and the implementation of innovative practices in agriculture through worldwide study and interpersonal contact.
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SCHOLARSHIPS
Introduction
A Nuffield Farming Scholarship is one of New Zealand's most valuable and prestigious agricultural awards.
Nuffield scholarships have been awarded to progressive New Zealand agribusiness people since 1950 and give successful applicants the opportunity to travel overseas to study the latest agricultural developments, and meet leaders and decision makers not accessible to the ordinary traveller.
For more than 60 Years New Zealand Nuffield Scholars have been travelling to the United Kingdom and other countries to experience agriculture as others practice it.
They have returned with new knowledge and wide contacts and many have become prominent in the farming community and in other walks of New Zealand life.
They are, and have been, represented in government, on agricultural producer boards and in agricultural organisations, as well as taking leading roles within their communities.
In each case Nuffield Scholars have acknowledged that a considerable part of their later success has stemmed from the scholarship and the knowledge, experience, friendships and associations which followed.
Eligibility
The criteria for Scholarships are that applicants must have proven experience in all areas of agriculture, horticulture and agribusiness management and demonstrate an ability and desire to participate in leadership in agriculture and the wider rural community. You must also be a New Zealand resident.
Scholarships are for four to six months, and include participation in an international group tour through either Asia, Europe, North and South America for approximately six weeks as well as attendance the annual Contemporary Scholars Conference, usually in March, where you will spend a week with other Nuffield Scholars from around the world.
Normally two or three scholarships are awarded each year. The expectation is that the scholarship term will be a minimum period of four consectutive months of study.
The monetary allowance provided is generally sufficient to meet scholars’ normal needs, i.e. an economy round the world ticket. It does not of course cover the costs of any replacement labour on the farm during the scholars absence.
Applicants for scholarships are invited to submit to the selection panel a programme of the subject they wish to study following the organised collective programme.
Subject to approval by the Trust this may be undertaken within any place in the world that is seen as appropriate both for the benefit of the scholar and for New Zealand agriculture generally.
At the conclusion of the tour, each Nuffield Scholar is required to write and submit before 31 January the following year, a full report on the trip and on their observations and conclusions. They re also required to present a verbal report to Biennial New Zealand Nuffield Farming Scholars Conference.
The scholarship is open to New Zealand residents who are participants within all sectors of agriculture, horticulture and agribusiness from all sectors of agriculture within New Zealand.
How to Apply
Applications close in August each year, with final interviews taking place in October in Wellington. Scholarship study, if successful, would commence the following year.
The Selection Panel comprises the NZ Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust Trustees together with representatives from the major funders of the awards.
For further information please contact:
NZ Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust
Stonestead, RD 1
Greytown
Ph: 06 304 9495
Fax: 06 304 8495
Email: nuffield@fedfarm.org.nz
DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION FORM
Applications for 2011 are now open.
You can download the 2011 application form as a Word Document or as a PDF below.