2025 Roy Watling Mitchell Bursaries Scholarship

Available to a first-year Māori undergraduate students who attended secondary school as a Year 13 in 2024. Priority will be given to students with academic merit and financial need.

The 2025 Roy Watling Mitchell Bursaries Scholarship aims to support first-year Māori students who have completed their secondary school career as Year 13’s in 2024, with a focus on those who display academic merit and financial need. This scholarship was established in 1991, and was the bequest of Roy Watling Mitchell of Wellington. His estate is managed by Perpetual Guardian.

 

If you would like to learn more about The Perpetual Guardian, click here.

EligibilityApplicants must:

  1. be of New Zealand Māori descent;
  2. be enrolled at a tertiary institute in 2025;
  3. be attending full-time study for the full year;
  4. submit the application and supporting documentation on time.

Supporting Information You need to provide:

  1. Whakapapa verification. This can be a letter from your iwi confirming your registration.
  2. 2025 Enrolment confirmation. This will need to prove that you're undertaking full-time study for the full year.
  3. NSN and student ID number.
  4. Bank verification of your bank account number. This can be a bank statement or a screenshot of your banking app.
  5. Academic transcript. This will need to show your results as a Year 13.
  6. Curriculum Vitae.

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