NAC Bursary 2025 for South African Students
Deadline: 06 December 2024
Location: South Africa
About NAC Bursary
The National Arts Council South Africa (NAC) is pleased to announce a new call for the Local Block Institutional Bursary Funding Call for the 2025 academic year.
The NAC Strategy purports capacity building as an essential element for developing the arts to ensure excellence.
Bursary funding aims to provide support to aspirational arts practitioners in the acquisition of relevant arts qualifications and arts-related knowledge and skills base. The funding of bursaries is an essential element for developing the arts to ensure excellence.
Through support for the provision of training and education, the NAC offers grants for bursaries and residency programs to help grow the talent of students, art practitioners, art technicians, arts administrators, and other industry-related professionals.
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This ensures that South Africa has a sustainable pool of talented artists and leaders.
The National Arts Council is pleased to announce the call for bursary applications for the academic year which begins in January 2025. The invitation is for registered education and training institutions that are involved in studies or provision of tuition in the fields of theatre, dance, crafts, literature, multidiscipline, music, visual arts, cultural policy, arts, and culture management as well as any arts-related course to apply for Block Institutional Bursaries.
Requirements
- Applicants who have been accepted at prestigious institutions may be considered.
- Post graduate qualifications will be funded on academic merit.
- Students achieving less than 65% will not be considered.
Block Institutional Bursaries are earmarked for undergraduate students who will be studying in South Africa during 2025. Institutions that apply for funding are required to support undergraduate students for the duration of their undergraduate studies, subject to successful completion of each year of study.
Institutions should be prepared to enter into a service-level agreement with the NAC in the fulfilment of this requirement. Institutions will be required to prioritise women and people living with disabilities in their selection processes.
How to apply
Applications must be summitted online at NAC bursaries portal.
Please note that late and incomplete applications will not be considered, and no exceptions will be made.
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