Sunday, November 21, 2010

Hong Kong PhD Fellowships Scheme 2011-12







Hong Kong PhD Fellowships Scheme 2011-12
Established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009, the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong's institutions.


Deadline: 01 Dec 2010 at Hong Kong Time 12:00:00(GMT +8 hours)
Candidates who are seeking admission as new full time PhD students in the following eight institutions, irrespective of their country of origin and ethnic background, should be eligible to apply.

* City University of Hong Kong
* Hong Kong Baptist University
* Lingnan University
* The Chinese University of Hong Kong
* The Hong Kong Institute of Education
* The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* The University of Hong Kong

The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approximately US$2,600) and a conference and research related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year to each awardee for a period of three years. About 135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded in each academic year*. For awardees who need more than three years to complete their PhD studies, additional support may be provided by the chosen institutions. For details, please contact the institutions concerned directly. Leaflet is attached for your reference.

The Complete details about application procedure, selection criteria, selection panel, value of award etc are available at following links

http://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html

Kindly go through the leaflet containing some important information, which can be downloaded from here.

Enquiries:

For enquiries on the Hing Kong PhD Fellowships Scheme, please write to HKPF@ugc.edu.hk . For enquiries on Admission requirements, research programmes, regulations and policy of individual institution, please write to the relevant institution directly.
For further details, click here

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