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Talented students to receive scholarships
The first day of Orientation Week at the University of the Sunshine Coast on Monday 14 February will be extra special for 67 talented first-year students.
The students, who are starting a wide variety of degree programs, will receive scholarships ranging in value from $3,500 to $12,000 and totalling almost $450,000.
The Undergraduate Scholarships Presentation Ceremony will feature speeches and opportunities for students to personally thank scholarship donors. For many, this financial recognition and networking opportunity will be a life-changing event.
This will be particularly so for the recipients of eight Academic Excellence Scholarships, valued at $12,000 each, which are provided annually through donations by Sir Clem and Lady Renouf, Tim Fairfax AM, and other donors.
Various businesses and community organisations have provided 11 other major scholarships, including the new Jalarema Indigenous Scholarship, and USC will present 48 Vice-Chancellor’s Merit scholarships valued at $6,000 each.
Media is welcome to attend the ceremony at USC’s Innovation Centre Auditorium on Monday 14 January from 10.30am to noon.
USC Foundation Executive Officer Andrew Pentland said the University’s scholarship program received strong community support and was having a remarkable effect.
“These scholarships do not only provide financial support to students, they provide recognition of outstanding achievement and encouragement and moral support,” he said.
“As universities have become more proactive in recruiting students, they have been offering these types of scholarships. It’s important that USC is able to compete in this way by providing scholarships that enable our top students to stay on the Coast to study.”
Most of the recipients are from the Sunshine Coast, but some are from Brisbane, Toowoomba, Warwick, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Hervey Bay and Blackall and interstate from the Northern Territory and Tasmania.
The recipients include school-leavers from 24 different high schools and more than 20 mature age students.
— Terry Walsh