Eligibility Checklist

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Australia Awards Scholarships Bangladesh Intake 2016 Eligibility Checklist

Potential applicants for an Australia Awards Scholarships in Bangladesh for Intake 2016 are encouraged to use this checklist to check whether they may satisfy the applicable eligibility criteria before they commence an application. This checklist is not exhaustive and must be read in conjunction with the Country Profile for Bangladesh for Intake 2016 and other information available at: http://www.australiaawardssouthwestasia.org/how-to-apply/bangladesh

Please note that Australia Awards Scholarship will only be awarded to persons who apply for an Award in the prescribed manner and are selected through the formal selection process. Full details of the application and selection process and the conditions of award are available at: http://www.australiaawardssouthwestasia.org/how-to-apply/bangladesh

Criterion Your Response/Eligibility

Personal Details

Q1 Are you over 18 years of age? Yes please continue to Q2No you are ineligible

Q2 Are you a citizen of Bangladesh and currently residing in and applying from Bangladesh? Yes please continue to Q3 No you are ineligible

Q3 Are you married, engaged to, or a de facto of a person who holds, or is eligible to hold, Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency?

Yes you are ineligible No please continue to Q4

Q4 Are you applying for a visa to live in Australia? Yes you are ineligibleNo please continue to Q5

Q5 Are you current serving military personnel? Yes you are ineligibleNo please continue to Q6

Qualifications

Q6

Do you currently have an educational qualification which is at least equivalent to an Australian Bachelors degree e.g. honors or Masters degree from Bangladesh (or another country)? Please contact the Australia Awards Office Bangladesh if you are unsure if your qualification is accredited & accepted by the Australia Awards

Yes please continue to Q7 No you are ineligible

Previous Scholarships from the Australian Government

Q7

Have you previously been awarded a long term Australia Award? [NOTE: long term means an award (scholarship) supporting studies of more than six months towards a course of studies, and which is recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework.]

Yes please continue to Q8 No please continue to Q9

Q8 Have resided outside of Australia for twice the length of the total time that you were in Australia for your previous long term Australia Award? (For example, if you were on an Australia Awards Scholarship in


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Australia for two years you will not be eligible to apply for another Australia Awards Scholarship until you have resided outside Australia for four years)

Target Group & Proposed Study Program

Q9

Do you fall within one of the Target Groups and one of the nominated Fields of Study for that Target Group detailed below?

Target Group Field of Study found at the following link

Government of Bangladesh employees

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org/ /bangladesh/gob

Education sector professionals

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org /bangladesh/gob/education

ICDDR,B employees

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org /bangladesh/icddrb

BRAC employees

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org /bangladesh/brac

Members of Ethnic Minority communities

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org /bangladesh/indigenous

Working in Water Resource Management

http://australiaawardssouthwestasia.org/docs/Water_Resource_Management_South_West_Asia_Intake_2016.docx

Yes please continue to Q10 No you are ineligible. If you fall within one of the Target Groups but not one of the nominated Fields of Study for that Target Group, you are ineligible unless you change your proposed field of study

Q10

Do you have at least two years full time work experience relevant to your proposed field of study and, if you work for the Government of Bangladesh, have you completed at least 2 years of service tenure and obtained service confirmation?


English Language Proficiency

Q11 Are you a woman? Yes please continue to Q13No please continue to Q12

Q12

Are you a male with a disability or from an Ethnic Minority Community? ethnic minority community means any one of the Indigenous, Aboriginal & Tribal Peoples of Bangladesh in Different Classifications detailed in Table 1 of the International Labour Organisation publication The ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 (No. 107) and the Laws of Bangladesh: A Comparative Review which can be found at: http://www.ilo.org/indigenous/Resources/Publications/WCMS_114385/lang--en/index.htm Under Australian law, disability includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological and learning disability, physical disfigurement, and the presence in the body of disease-causing organisms. People with disability who are otherwise

No please continue to Q14 Yes - please continue to Q16

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eligible are encouraged to apply for an Australia Award.

Q13

Are you a woman with a disability or from an Ethnic Minority Community? ethnic minority community means any one of the Indigenous, Aboriginal & Tribal Peoples of Bangladesh in Different Classifications detailed in Table 1 of the International Labour Organisation publication The ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 (No. 107) and the Laws of Bangladesh: A Comparative Review which can be found at: http://www.ilo.org/indigenous/Resources/Publications/WCMS_114385/lang--en/index.htm Under Australian law, disability includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological and learning disability, physical disfigurement, and the presence in the body of disease-causing organisms. People with disability who are otherwise eligible are encouraged to apply for an Australia Award.

No please continue to Q15 Yes please continue to Q16

Q14

Do you have an IELTS (Academic) score average of 6.5 or above (with no individual band less than 6.0) or TOEFL paper-based test score of at least 580, or computer-based score of at least 237 or an internet-based score of at least 92 which will still be valid on 1 January 2016? [NOTE: Awardees must meet the English language requirement of their course which may be higher than these levels]

Yes you may be eligible. We encourage you to investigate further at: http://australiaawardssouthwestasiabangladesh.org No you are ineligible unless you can satisfy this criterion by 30 April 2015

Q15

Applies to Non-Ethnic Women: - Do you have an IELTS (Academic) score average of 6.0 or above (with no individual band less than 5.5) or an equivalent TOEFL paper-based/internet based test score which will still be valid on 1 January 2016? [NOTE: Awardees must meet the English language requirement of their course which may be higher than these levels]


Q16

Applies to People with a Disability and People from an Ethnic Minority Community: - Do you have an IELTS (Academic) score average of 6.0 or above (with no individual band less than 5.0) or an equivalent TOEFL paper-based/internet based test score which will still be valid on 1 January 2016? [NOTE: Awardees must meet the English language requirement of their course which may be higher than these levels]


Documents

Eligibility Checklist