Experience opportunity at The Geelong College

Experience opportunity at The Geelong College, a leading Victorian School.

At The Geelong College, we welcome scholarship applications from students who will make the most of the opportunities offered at The Geelong College, and who can make a positive contribution to our community.

We offer Academic, Boarding and Music Scholarships from Years 7 to 11, and encourage diversity and excellence at the College through this program.

Music Scholarships:

The College has a vibrant music program offering individual lessons and ensembles of high standards across a range of instruments and musical styles.

Music Scholarship recipients will be offered full remission of instrumental tuition fees on one instrument and part remission of academic fees, the amount of fee remission offered to each candidate is at the discretion of the Principal.

Other Scholarships for 2019:

In addition to the academic, music and boarding scholarships outlined above each year, we offer scholarships which have specific criteria or are offered cyclically.

The Jennie Hawkins Boarding Scholarship – for entry into Year 9 or 10 as a boarder in 2019

In memory of Old Collegian, Former College Council member and leader in agriculture, Jennie Hawkins.

The Jennie Hawkins Scholarship offers a 50% boarding fee reduction to a female boarder for entry into Year 9 at Geelong College for the maximum duration of four years.

It will be awarded, on the determination of the Principal, to a girl from a farm community or rural town (not a provincial city) with a preference that the student is from the Riverina (not essential).

The scholarship will be cyclically, as the Jennie Hawkins Scholar graduates.

Howard Hitchcock Design and Creative Arts Scholarship

The Howard Hitchcock Design and Creative Arts Scholarship offers a Term’s fees remission for two years to a promising visual artist or designer.

All applicants are required to submit a folio (of no more than 10 works) which will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Demonstration of a range of appropriate trialling and development of potential ideas in an artistic medium. Ample evidence of the applicant’s ability to think on a broad and innovative basis.
• Use of imagination as evidenced in the folio of work. There should be signs of innovative exploration of ideas.
• Level of skill that is displayed in the folio of work. Evidence of fine motor skills in one or more mediums.
• Evidence of personal art responses, concepts and/or observations. Depth of interest within the subject as evidenced in the folio of work.

Find out more or apply at geelongcollege.vic.edu.au.