Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Latin America - Criteria for Assessing Group Applications The goals of the PMSLA are to: strengthen New Zealand institutions’ connections with their counterparts in key Latin American countries promote understanding of the strength and quality of New Zealand’s education system and raise awareness in Latin America of New Zealand as a preferred education destination improve the international skills of the New Zealand workforce strengthen people to people connections between New Zealand and countries in Latin America through participants building lifelong friendships and networks strengthen New Zealand’s ability to engage with key Latin American trading partners improve New Zealanders’ understanding of Latin American business practice and culture Importantly, proposed programmes must be demonstrably linked to New Zealand’s education, trade or economic agenda in Latin America. Criteria 1. The alignment of the Criteria 2. The quality of the proposed Criteria 3. Recipients Criteria 4. Planning organisation’s programme with programme (mark out of 10, where 10 is high) (mark out of 10, where 10 is high) scholarship goals (mark out of 10, 10 is high) (mark out of 20, where 20 is high) Promotional plan is well articulated and Programme will the profile of NZ as a Programme is clearly within scholarship Recipient outcomes are clearly articulated adequate Promotional plan includes activity prior to quality education destination parameters and achievable In particular, programme will further the Quality of the programme activities and Outcomes for individual recipients are departure, during programme, and on internationalisation of NZ’s tertiary partner institution (where relevant) is high aligned with the goals of the PMSLA completion and the planned activities and institutions to a high extent Institutional outcomes are clearly articulated Pastoral care plan is comprehensive, are relevant and of high quality Programme clearly links to New Zealand’s and achievable and adequate Promotional plan clearly shows education, trade and economic agenda in Benefits to the individual; the faculty/ Selection process will ensure candidates opportunities to showcase the institution, Latin America department; the institution, and New will represent both New Zealand and their the PMSLA and NZ education. Application shows a clear understanding of Zealand education, in the short and long home institution positively, particularly the Programme budget for additional the PMSLA goals & their importance and term are clearly identified value of their New Zealand education activities is clear and detailed (if programme meets all (or most) of the goals experience specified) If programme is a repeat, the benefits and of the PMSLA Programme budget is reasonable and outcomes of previous PMSLA supported represents value for money programmes are well articulated and demonstrated
Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Latin America - Criteria for Assessing Group Applications The goals of the PMSLA are to: strengthen New Zealand institutions’ connections with their counterparts in key Latin American countries promote understanding of the strength and quality of New Zealand’s education system and raise awareness in Latin America of New Zealand as a preferred education destination improve the international skills of the New Zealand workforce strengthen people to people connections between New Zealand and countries in Latin America through participants building lifelong friendships and networks strengthen New Zealand’s ability to engage with key Latin American trading partners improve New Zealanders’ understanding of Latin American business practice and culture Importantly, proposed programmes must be demonstrably linked to New Zealand’s education, trade or economic agenda in Latin America. Criteria 1. The alignment of the organisation’s programme with scholarship goals (mark out of 20, where 20 is high) Criteria 2. The quality of the proposed programme (mark out of 10, 10 is high) Criteria 3. Recipients (mark out of 10, where 10 is high) Criteria 4. Planning (mark out of 10, where 10 is high) Programme will the profile of NZ as a quality education destination In particular, programme will further the internationalisation of NZ’s tertiary institutions to a high extent Programme clearly links to New Zealand’s education, trade and economic agenda in Latin America Application shows a clear understanding of the PMSLA goals & their importance and programme meets all (or most) of the goals of the PMSLA Programme is clearly within scholarship parameters Quality of the programme activities and partner institution (where relevant) is high Institutional outcomes are clearly articulated and achievable Benefits to the individual; the faculty/ department; the institution, and New Zealand education, in the short and long term are clearly identified If programme is a repeat, the benefits and outcomes of previous PMSLA supported programmes are well articulated and demonstrated Recipient outcomes are clearly articulated and achievable Outcomes for individual recipients are aligned with the goals of the PMSLA Pastoral care plan is comprehensive, and adequate Selection process will ensure candidates will represent both New Zealand and their home institution positively, particularly the value of their New Zealand education experience Promotional plan is well articulated and adequate Promotional plan includes activity prior to departure, during programme, and on completion and the planned activities and are relevant and of high quality Promotional plan clearly shows opportunities to showcase the institution, the PMSLA and NZ education. Programme budget for additional activities is clear and detailed (if specified) Programme budget is reasonable and represents value for money