Scholarships to forge enduring educational links with China
Dr Chau with Anthony Albanese (left) and Professor Ross Milbourne. Picture by Chris Bennett
In summary:
- Australian-Chinese business leader Dr Chau Chak Wing has signed the formal agreement for a $5 million scholarship endowment at UTS
- It will generate around $250,000 a year to support a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to benefit both Australian and Chinese students
While his name is to grace a landmark Sydney building, Australian-Chinese business leader Dr Chau Chak Wing signed off on a no less enduring legacy at UTS this week with the formal establishment of a scholarship endowment to benefit both Australian and Chinese students.
The $5 million endowment – announced at the time of Dr Chau's $20 million gift towards the construction of the Frank Gehry-designed UTS Business School building – will generate around $250,000 a year to support a broad spectrum of scholarships.
Dr Chau signed the formal agreement on Tuesday after visiting the site of the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building with a party including Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese. Excavation of the site is expected to be complete mid July with a projected 2014 handover of the completed building.
UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne said Dr Chau's scholarship endowment would build relationships in China to complement his contribution to the building work on the UTS campus.
"The scholarships will support Australian students to study in China and vice versa, covering undergraduate, postgraduate and some exchange programs, potentially in all disciplines," Professor Milbourne said.
"The endowment will create extraordinary opportunities for Australian and Chinese students to build a deeper understanding of each other's countries and cultures as well as creating future institutional and research links.
"We hope this will be a catalyst to build enduring relationships at the teaching and research level, not only with our existing Key Technology Partners in China, but with many other universities and institutions."
A committee to manage the endowment will now be established with the first scholarships to be awarded next year.
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Jessica Nguyen says:
25 Sep 2012
I am doing B Business/B Law but cannot find this scholarship on the UTS Scholarships page. Where do I apply for this scholarship?
tclinton says:
26 Sep 2012
Hi Jessica, details for these scholarships are still being finalised, with the first to be available in second semester 2013.
olfat says:
9 Jan 2013
I have obtained my master’s degree in business management.
I would be pleased to be able for doing further research due to my thesis or start new research in the field business information systems at PhD level.
Furthermore I can find the perfect supervisor faculty of Engineering and IT.
but I do not know for scholarship what should I do and what is the process?
Xavier Mayes says:
16 Jan 2013
Hi Olfat,
You can search for current scholarship opportunities at http://cfsites1.uts.edu.au/uts/study/scholarships or call 9514 2000 to speak to someone about the process.
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