Education enabled Kalpana to achieve her dreams of a career in aerospace and ultimately attain great success in the field. She had the benefit of a supportive family with resources to provide for her education; nevertheless, she always strived to make her way with her own efforts. Following up on Kalpana's example, Montsu, Inc. provides higher education opportunities to promising students who do not have the necessary resources available, i.e. students who have no other means of obtaining higher education without sponsorship.

Sponsorship eligibility  |  Sponsorship ineligibility  |  Sponsorship application procedure  |  Sponsorship recipients

Sponsorship Eligibility

The applicant must show:

  1. Fluency in oral and written English.
     
  2. Demonstrated potential for successfully completing a course of higher education.
     
  3. Necessary resources are not available to pursue higher education.
     
  4. Attendance at a course of higher education is possible only with the assistance of Montsu, Inc.
     
  5. Intent to pursue a science-based career, including both pure and applied sciences.
     
  6. Recommendation letters on behalf of the student submitted by two separate disinterested parties.
     
  7. Advanced higher education may be sponsored for unusually promising students.
     
  8. Practical plan submitted by recipient to personally sponsor the higher education of at least one promising student from the recipient's home region within five years of completion of the recipient's higher education.
     
  9. Students from all areas of the world are eligible, with preference given to those from developing regions.
     
  10. Scholarships are awarded for study in the applicant's home country only.
     
  11. Montsu, Inc. makes the final decision regarding sponsored students (not including item 8 above).

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Sponsorship Ineligibility

The following are ineligible for sponsorship:

  1. Students who hold the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree or have completed a course of vocational/technical training (see 7 above for exception).
     
  2. Students who have failed to complete a previous course of higher education or vocational/technical training due to inadequate academic performance.
     
  3. Students with access to the resources necessary to pursue higher education, including personal and/or family funds, grants, scholarships, loans, employment opportunities, etc.

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  Sponsorship Application Procedure

The applicant must provide the following completed documents:
1. Student biographical data. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
2. Authenticated copy of student high school transcripts/report/graduation certificate as applicable.
3. Student essay of at least 1,000 words, typewritten or printed, detailing educational goals, objectives and plans for utilizing academic qualifications to the benefit of his/her community after graduation. Handwritten essays are not accepted.
4. Letters of recommendation from two unrelated disinterested parties on behalf of the student. Each letter must include at least the following information:
  1. Background information on the letter author.
     
  2. Statement affirming that no relationship of any kind exists between the letter author and the student that could possibly produce a bias towards that student, e.g. no family or business relationships exist.
     
  3. Number of years the letter author has been personally acquainted with the student.
     
  4. Statement affirming that the student and his/her family has absolutely no means of financing a university education.
     
  5. Reasons why the student should receive a scholarship, considering his/her prior educational achievements.
     
  6. Benefits to the community arising from providing the student with a scholarship.

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Sponsorship Recipients

  1. 2003: Vusumuzi Nathi Vilakazi: BS Geology at University of Witswatersrand.
     
    • Sponsorship terminated December 2007

     
  2. 2004: Ndumiso Stanley Mkholo: BS Astronomy at University of South Africa.
     
    • Graduation scheduled June 2009

     
  3. 2005: Nkosinathi Alfonce Mahwai: BS Biology at University of Pretoria.
     
    • Graduated December 2008 Bachelor of Science degree

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