Applications Open Now
Applications are coming in for the 2021 NCWQ bursary program.
With 35 bursaries on offer, they range from Year 12 to PhD students, some for various fields of study, some for place of residence, some for specific groups, including disability, mental illness, refugee background, LGBTIQ, Indigenous.
We thank our sponsors – three levels of government; affiliated members of NCWQ; and individuals. We are grateful that this generosity brings such benefits to Queensland female students.
Please share
Applications close 2 June 2021, so please pass on the bursary information through your networks and amongst your circle of friends and family, encouraging the students to check out the details.
Full details are available at our Bursary page of this website and our Bursary Flyer is available here.
Some of this year’s sponsors include:
Do you know someone who may be eligible?
Please pass on the bursary information through your networks – and remember not all bursaries are for students entering university from high school. A number of bursaries specifically cater for older students who are taking up the opportunity of tertiary studies, with changing careers or family circumstances.
Applications close on 2 June 2021.
Further Information
For any information about the 2021 Bursary Program, please contact Kathy Cavanagh, NCWQ Bursary Program Manager at bursaries@ncwq.org.au or send a Query here.
Regardless of any COVID restrictions which may be applicable at the time of the bursary presentation in early August, the E-Yearbook, an initiative to counteract our changed world in 2020, will continue.
Kathy has been involved with NCWQ since 2011 (currently on the NCWQ Management Committee), and has been associated with ESA for many years. Now retired, Kathy has worked in a variety of contexts, both overseas and inter-state, in roles ranging from small business to writing and photography, but the main focus has been in adult education.
A wide-ranging career both within Australia and internationally has developed broad skills in communication, management and coordination, adapting to change. Writing skills in varied contexts, evidenced by production of second edition of self-funded booklet on cancer experiences, distributed to support other women and their families experiencing cancer.
Coordination, team work and management skills in bursary coordination role, working with over 100 people, including sponsors for 40 bursaries in 2020; coordinators and selection panel members; and recipients. Flexibility in adapting established processes within the COVID-19 environment to meet the required outcome of meeting sponsor conditions in the selection and recognition of bursary recipients. Kathy is the NCWQ Bursary Program Manager.
