University Secretary's Department Statutes and Regulation

R6.4 - Stawell Scholarship

 

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Recitals-

  1. In 1873 an exhibition known as the Stawell exhibition was founded in the University of Melbourne by Sir William Foster Stawell for the encouragement of the school of Engineering.
  2. It is desirable to convert such exhibition into a scholarship to be known as the "Stawell Scholarship".
  3. The University received £1,000 at the time of the donation, which sum increased to $15,768 at 31 December 1994.

It is provided as follows-

  1. The endowment for the Stawell scholarship consists of the sum which at the date of the passing of this regulation in 1886 formed the endowment of the Stawell exhibition and of its accumulations and additions as the Council from time to time directs.
  2. The Stawell scholarship (“the scholarship”) is tenable for one year and its value is to be determined from time to time by the Council on the recommendation of the Academic Board.
  3. Applications for the scholarship are invited by notice on the University notice board and in general are lodged with the Registrar on or before the first day of February in each year.
  4. Applications for the scholarship may be made by -
    1. persons who have completed the Fourth Year of a course for the degree of bachelor of Engineering at this University in the preceding year and have obtained final honours in that course;
    2. persons who have completed the Third Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Science of this University in the preceding year and have obtained honours;
    3. graduates in Engineering or in Science of this University of not less than one year's standing;
    4. graduates in Engineering or in Science of some other university who are approved by the faculty of Engineering.
  5. The Stawell scholarship is awarded annually by the Council on the recommendation of the faculty of Engineering. The faculty in making its recommendation as between candidates from the different categories listed in section 4 of this regulation where all other things are equal give preference according to the order in which those categories appear in that section.
  6. The holder of the scholarship must during his or her year of tenure either conduct research in Engineering or at the discretion of the faculty enter on an approved course of travel in Australia or abroad for the purpose of furthering his or her education or experience in Engineering:
    Provided that if the holder of the scholarship is a person who has completed the Third Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Science or a graduate of some other university he or she must carry out approved research in Engineering under the control and direction of the faculty of Engineering.
  7. The amount of the scholarship is payable in four quarterly instalments. If the holder of the scholarship is engaged on research in Melbourne such payment is subject to the production by the scholar of a certificate by the professor or lecturer under whom the scholar is working that he or she has fulfilled the requirements of the scholarship during the period. If the scholar is travelling either in Australia or overseas periodical reports satisfactory to the faculty is required in fulfilment of the terms of the scholarship.
    The faculty has power to modify the times of payment of the several instalments but the final payment is not to be made until a satisfactory report has been furnished by the scholar on his or her work.
  8. If in any year in the opinion of the faculty no candidate is deemed worthy the scholarship is not to be awarded in that year and the amount or any part thereof may at the discretion of the faculty be awarded in any subsequent year either-
    1. as a second scholarship if in the opinion of the faculty there are two candidates worthy of the award of the scholarship, or
    2. as an addition to the amount of the scholarship awarded in that year if in the opinion of the faculty there is only one candidate worthy:
      Provided that no such candidate is to be awarded the amount of more than two scholarships and provided further that the Council may in its discretion after consultation with the faculty direct at any time that all or any unexpended amounts are to be added to the endowment of the scholarship.
  9. No candidate for the scholarship is rendered ineligible by reason of the candidate's holding any other University prize, exhibition or scholarship.
[s. 2 am. 6/7/98.]
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