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Student benefits from EIT Scholarship

October 7, 2014
Ella Patterson has enjoyed the benefits of an EIT Year 13 Degree Scholarship available to eligible school leavers.

Ella Patterson has enjoyed the benefits of an EIT Year 13 Degree Scholarship available
to eligible school leavers.

Second-year EIT student Ella Patterson feels she’s made a smart move in taking up a Year 13 Degree Scholarship to work towards her Bachelor of Computing Systems in Hawke’s Bay.

Leaving school in 2012, Ella was offered a university scholarship but after crunching the numbers, her father told her she would be financially better off going to EIT.

Ella’s study fees savings are boosted by boarding free at home and she also earns money working part-time in a shop in Hastings. Building up her savings for when she graduates, she aims to work as a freelancer and travel. She feels she’ll be well-equipped for that with an in-demand and portable degree.

But right now, Ella is enjoying her studies at EIT where, she says, friendly staff make the effort to know the students.

“I had a problem knowing how to go about a programming assignment and 10 minutes after emailing my lecturer we had a meeting lined up for the next day. The small classes are also what make it.”

From next year, the scholarship will provide fee free tuition for the first year for successful applicants wanting to study any of EIT’s 12 undergraduate degree programmes. They are available to secondary school leavers in the Hawke’s Bay, Tairāwhiti (Gisborne) and Taupo regions.

Scholarships for the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts (To Toi o Nga Rangi), available on EIT’s Tairāwhiti campus, and the Bachelor of Viticulture, the Bachelor of Wine Science and the Viticulture/Wine Science concurrent degree offered on the Hawke’s Bay campus are open to students nationwide.

In the restructured format, the scholarships will be awarded by a selection panel on the basis of criteria applying to students enrolling for programmes in 2015 and beyond. The value of each fees scholarship will be up to $6,000 depending on the programme.

Applications close 17 October 2014.