The Disability Rights Scholarship Program awards a master’s degree study to individuals who advocate for disability rights, lawyers, and educators to develop new legislation, jurisprudence, policy, research, and scholarship to harness the innovations and opportunities offered by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
For 2016-2017, the Disability Rights Scholarship programme will offer two awards for masters’ degrees in education, focusing on individual education in particular. The programme is only open to those who are citizens and legal residents of Argentina, China, Colombia, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, or Zambia.
The Scholarship will allow participants to develop their understanding on principles, values and practices of inclusive education. When the program is completed, the participants will be able to lead reform of education policy and practice in their own home countries. The competition is merit based and selection for the programme is based on academic excellence, professional aptitude, leadership potential and proven commitment to work in the field of disability rights or to advance inclusive education in one’s home country.
The first stage of the competition is the Preliminary Selection and Testing Stage where the applications are reviewed and the chosen semi-final applicants are required to take an official TOEFL or IELTS in which a certain score must be achieved. The semi-finalists are then interviewed and the subsequent placement is centred on the quality of the written application, interview evaluations, and standardised test results.
The deadline for applications is 2nd November 2015.
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