UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD/MASTERCARD FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS

Application Deadline: December, 2023/January, 2024

LOCATION: England

The University of Oxford and the Mastercard Foundation have established an innovative and ambitious partnership under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx). 60-70 Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholarships are available for applicants to any full-time one-year taught master’s course at Oxford for 2024-25 entry who are African nationals, are ordinarily resident in African countries who are applying and intending to return to Africa upon completion of their studies.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be considered for this scholarship, submit your application for graduate study by the relevant December/January deadline for your course, and tick the relevant box on the graduate application form. If you are eligible for this scholarship, you will be contacted by email in late March and asked to submit additional material to show how you meet the selection criteria.

In awarding the Scholarships the panel looks at four areas:

Academic merit and potential

Leadership experience and capacity development

Alignment with AfOx values and themes

Commitment to Africa’s development.

For more information about these scholarships, visit the Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholarships page.

BENEFIT:

This full-cost scholarship is available to Master’s students, covering tuition fees and living expenses for international students. The scholarship also provides logistics support, including an economy return flight, visa and Immigration Health Surcharge fees, settling down allowance, and access to a Thrive Fund for emergencies.

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TRUE STORY AWARDS

Application Deadline: Sunday, November 5, 2023, at 12 pm (noon, CEST).

LOCATION: Switzerland.

The first globally oriented journalism prize aims to set an example to motivate journalists all over the world and to strengthen them in their work. Its aim is to make reporters’ voices known beyond the borders of their home countries, and in doing so to increase the diversity of perspectives offered in the media. The True Story Award will be conferred by an independent foundation and honours reporters writing in 10 languages, who have distinguished themselves by the depth of their research, the quality of their journalism and its social relevance. 

ELIGIBILITY:

The True Story Award is open to all journalists anywhere in the world who produce written reportage. Works can be submitted in the following 10 languages:

Arabic   العربية
Chinese   中文
English   English
French   Français
German   Deutsch
Persian   فارسی
Portuguese   Português
Russian   Pусский
Spanish   Español

Works written in other languages can be submitted in three categories:

Europe
World I
World II

Texts in these categories can be entered in English (World II also in Hindi) and go directly to the jury.
Submissions in the original language must include a summary in English of at least 400 words. In this case, native-speaking readers from our network will review the original text and decide on a translation into English for evaluation by the jury.

The texts’ length should be between 3 000 and 17 000 words.

BENEFIT:

The main jury will then select the three best texts from the 36 nominees, who will be rewarded as follows:

prize: 25 000 francs.

prize: 15 000 francs. 

prize: 10 000 francs.

The award ceremony will be held as part of a festival on Friday, May 24, 2024, in Bern, Switzerland.

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