Canon Collins Thekgo Bursaries 2024

To support access to higher education, a group of professionals founded the non-profit Canon Collins Thekgo Bursary in 2007. It is financed entirely by private donations from people and is voluntarily managed by a committee of supporters and the UK office of Canon Collins. The bursary is intended for students whose academic records and degree certificates have been withheld after they have completed their undergraduate or honours studies because of unpaid debt to the university. The project was created in response to the alarming fact that students in South Africa miss out on work and future education chances because their academic records are suppressed because of unpaid debt.

Eligibility for Canon Collins Thekgo Bursaries:

• The applicant must be an African national or hold refugee status in one of the continent's nations.
• The candidate must have finished undergraduate studies at any public institution in South Africa, completing a three- or four-year Bachelor's or Honors degree in a degree program within Thekgo's focus fields in the Humanities, as mentioned above.
• The applicant must have already missed one graduation ceremony and/or been unable to collect their degree because of unpaid debt to the university, which cannot exceed R10,000.
• The candidate must exhibit both financial need and intellectual merit.