Summary
This is a report on the immediate impact of the Australian Development Scholarships and Australian Regional Development Scholarships for Fiji and Tuvalu graduates 2005-2007.
Description
This is a report on the immediate impact of the Australian Development Scholarships and Australian Regional Development Scholarships for Fiji and Tuvalu graduates 2005–2007, including recommendations to improve future effectiveness of scholarships.
It examines the impact of scholarships in Fiji and Tuvalu in the first year(s) after award completion, through interviews with the alumni and their colleagues, peers and supervisors, and a survey of graduates. The report highlights that only 24 percent of the Fiji 2005–2007 alumni could be located, and only 67 per cent of these responded to the survey, therefore its findings did not represent the total cohort.
Recommendations for Fiji:
- require short-listed applicants to prepare re-entry action plans on how they would use their knowledge
- review distance and flexible learning scholarships
- use profiling to match awards to applicants most likely to return and stay in Fiji to work
- research and analyse how to make Australian scholarship opportunities available to a wider range of people in Fiji e.g. use selection criteria to target people living in rural and remote locations and/or devise measures to include people with disabilities.
Fiji and Tuvalu Tracer Study, Final Report [PDF 347 kb]