Dear
Staff and Students
NB: The NRF has phased out the block grant nomination
process as well as the grant-holder linked modalities of funding postgraduate
students in 2020. All the postgraduate students will be expected to apply on
the NRF Online Submission System by accessing the link: https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za/
See attachments for further
information.
Applicants that have been
recruited by a supervisor to be part of an NRF funded project should provide an
NRF 5 or six-digit grant UID (unique identification number). If there is an
application submitted to the NRF for the project an applicant is recruited to
be part of, the applicant should provide an NRF application reference number in
the section shown below. You can get the UID or the NRF application reference
number from your supervisor.
The DSI and NRF are pleased to announce a call of new applications for
NRF Postgraduate Student Funding for the 2021 Academic year. All continuing students
who are eligible for a second or third year of funding must submit a Progress
Report and not a new application.
The NRF minimum
academic requirement for postgraduate funding is 65%. Applicants for
honours, masters and doctoral funding must be 28, 30 and 32 years of age or younger
respectively in the year of application. Successful applicants will be funded
either at Full Cost
Study (FCS) or Partial
Cost of Study (PCS). The FCS funding will be awarded to South
African citizens and permanent residents only, who are either financially needy (i.e.,
those whose combined household family income is less or equal to R350 000 per
annum), living with a
disability or exceptional
academic achievers. However, the PCS funding will be awarded to
5% of international
students including South African citizens and permanent
residents who could not be funded under FCS but meet other minimum requirements
for the NRF scholarship funding criteria.
Scholarships are intended to support honours, masters and
doctoral candidates to pursue studies in all areas of Science, Engineering, Technology,
Social Sciences, and Humanities.
The NRF has phased out
the block grant nomination process as well as the grant-holder linked
modalities of funding postgraduate students in 2020. As from
2021 funding year, all the postgraduate students will be expected to apply on
the NRF Online Submission System by accessing the link: https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za/, no manual applications will be accepted. Universities will set their own
internal cut-off dates for applications, and the applicants must abide by those
dates.
INTERNAL CLOSING DATES HAS
BEEN SET AS FOLLOWS:
Honours Applications: 18
NOVEMBER 2020
Masters Applications: 14
JULY 2020
Doctoral Applications: 14
JULY 2020
Masters and Doctoral
Extension Support Applications: 14 JULY 2020
Doctoral Abroad (Nuffic)
Applications Split - Site: 14 JULY 2020
Doctoral Abroad (Nuffic)
Applications Single - Site: 1 June 2020
Please refer to the
application and funding documents when completing the online application form
at every step of the process.
For enquiries, applicants’ are
encouraged to contact the Research or Postgraduate offices at their
universities (Ms Hlengiwe Zondo (ZondoH@ukzn.ac.za or Abongile Mpofu –
MpofuA@ukzn.ac.za)