Applications may not be submitted directly to the Sugar Association. Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Scheme Applications for new awards, to begin in February 2002, will invited in mid-November 2001, with a Christmas closing date. Information will be sent to members of the academic staff. Students should approach prospective mentors for further information during the second half of November. At about the same time, guidelines for progress reports from existing awardees will also be distributed, again via the academic staff.
Continued support depends on the return and evaluation of satisfactory progress reports.
Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust TheTrust offers a number of awards. This is a grant of unspecified value to assist experienced academics to pay for a period of medium to longer term overseas sabbatical research. The purpose of this grant is to assist postgraduate students to study overseas for up to three years where theirs is a specialization which cannot be pursued locally. Certain undertakings regarding subsequent return to South Africa are required. The purpose of this grant is to assist individuals who are already teaching to pursue local doctoral studies, which might otherwise be closed to them for want of sufficient funding.