Japanese offer scholarships

Press, 16 August 1976, Page 9

Japanese offer scholarships

The Japanese Government!l offers two scholarships nextp year — one for an under-11 graduate student, the other I for a post-graduate student, i The former, with a tenure of five years, is mainly for students who intend to be- : come Japanese language i teachers. The latter is a research scholarship lasting either two years or 18 months. The undergraduate must be between the ages of 18' and 22 and have passed Uni-; versity Entrance by March.' I He will be expected to do a; preliminary one-year course; I in Japanese and then a four- ( | year course at. the Special j ■Department of Japanese! I Studies, upon completion of i ; which the degree of gakushii of literature will be con- ! ferred. All tuition will be in Japanese. He will have an allowance' of SNZ3OO, and free trans-H port to and from Japan, i Tuition fees will be waived. I

1 IHe will have to sit written] ]examinations in English orj< iFrench, mathematics, world]’ history, and the Japanese' language. 11 The research scholarship I is open to post-graduate , students, aged under 35, or students who will graduate by March or September. Study must be in the same field or closely related to one applicants have already studied. Options cover the humanijties and social sciences, the] (natural sciences, and the] language. Liberal studies and social science ] students will need a very I I good grasp of Japanese. ' The post-graduate student will have a monthly grant of! SNZ4I3, free transport to j and from Japan, and free! > tuition. Inquiries should be ad-! 'dressed to the Japanese EmIbassy, P.O. Box 6340. Te. Aro, Wellington, and marked; I “Scholarship.” !