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Australian scholarships and local elections
Hello everyone,
The APROFED association is contacting you again this week following the announcement made at the end of February by the Australian consulate of the opening of excellence scholarships aimed at studying for a year in Australia for Caledonian students in bac+4 or +5 (cf. Excellence scholarships to study for a year in Australia | Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes ).
Attached you will find the document sent by the consulate which we have translated into French in order to submit a file by the end of April.
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Priority areas of study include, in particular, global politics.
We therefore contacted the consulate to find out the conditions for accessing these scholarships and whether the concept of federalism could be eligible, given that Australia has 3 centers of study in this field, namely:
– Contact ACF | School of Politics & International Relations
– Program in Federalism and Multilevel Governance – Faculty of Law – University of Queensland
The scholarship team then clarified for us that:
– Candidates must be of French nationality, have completed the majority of their schooling in a French territory in the Pacific, and not already hold or have nearly completed a Master’s level degree
– Regarding the fields of study, even if the term “political science” does not appear explicitly, the categories “Global Politics” and social sciences are indeed among the priority areas identified. They generally cover training in comparative politics, governance, or institutional systems.
– Specialized training related to federalism, such as that offered by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (CCCS), the School of Politics & International Relations, or the programs in federalism and multilevel governance at the University of Queensland, may be acceptable.
It is therefore surprising that loyalists who advocate a federal solution have not communicated more on this subject.
The difficulty in uniting in certain municipalities in view of the municipal elections between the different components that make it up thus demonstrates the lack of sincerity of their so-called federal project.
None of the candidates in the 4 municipalities of Greater Nouméa have brought up a proposal that is almost 20 years old aimed at creating an agglomeration community in order to group the 4 municipalities into one, leading to the observation of the limits for these parties to come together and be able to discuss among themselves in order to resolve common problems related to the needs of the population.
The APROFED association