Deadline:
April 28, 2024
Location(s)
South Africa
Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Gqeberha, Makhanda, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch, Pretoria
Overview
The Fellowship is the next step in your education, and your education is more than just a degree – it’s 360 degrees of entrepreneurial training. It’s the ability to see the complete picture, to use your voice to fill gaps. It’s a directive to do business that’s inclusive, innovative and downright inspirational. Your degree is an open-ended invitation to redesign the world – and it’s got your name on it.
Details
The aim of our Fellowship Programme is to help university students prepare for life as a high-impact, responsible entrepreneur. Applicants must be in Grade 12 or 1st year university and have a 70% overall academic average. Once applicants are successful, they are on boarded as Candidate Allan Gray Fellows.
Choosing entrepreneurship as a viable career path
Our Fellowship Programme focuses on cultivating entrepreneurship in Candidate Fellows by ensuring that by the end of the Fellowship Programme they desire to create value through responsible entrepreneurship, see entrepreneurship as a viable career path, are able to take an idea and develop it into a viable opportunity, understand the value proposition of the Foundation and E2, as well as value the culture of community and collaboration. Furthermore, their entrepreneurial mindset development curriculum is disseminated via the AGOF Online Campus.
Deepening the understanding of entrepreneurship
In addition to financial and academic support, each candidate is allocated a Personal Development Officer, helping them get to grips with the transition into a new environment; an Entrepreneurial Leadership Officer, who probes them to flex their entrepreneurial muscles; as well as an industry mentor, who deepens their understanding of entrepreneurial traits and concepts in the working world.
Our partner universities:
Eastern Cape:
- Rhodes University
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Gauteng:
- University of Johannesburg
- University of Pretoria
- University of the Witwatersrand
Western Cape:
- University of Cape Town
- University of the Western Cape
- TSIBA
- Stellenbosch University
Free State:
- University of the Free State
KwaZulu-Natal:
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
Grade 12 application process
- Submit your application form and supporting documentation online or via post before or on 28 April 2024, 17:00 SAST
- Successful applicant candidates will be invited for an interview in July 2024
- Successful interview candidates will be invited to a selection camp in September 2024
- To ensure that we offer you the best possible support and customer service, please ensure that you give yourself enough time to complete the application form before the closing date. We recommend dedicating at least two days to it.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 60% in Pure Mathematics OR a minimum of 80% in Mathematical Literacy for final grade 11 results
- Minimum average of 70% for final Grade 11 results (excluding Life Orientation)
- Applicant must be under the age of 21 in the year of their application
- Applicant must be a South African citizen
- Intention to study towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities, Arts & Health Science (Excluding Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry) degree at WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFS or UKZN
FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME
The 2023 first-year university campaign is closed for public applications. Each university will have the opportunity to nominate entrepreneurially minded first-year students who meet the Foundation’s first requirements listed below to apply.
- Must currently be in their 1st year of study (extended degree programmes welcome)
- Currently studying toward a degree in the following faculties:
- Arts
- Humanities
- Law
- Science
- Commerce
- Engineering
- Health Science (excluding Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Sciences)
- Currently enrolled at the following institutions:
- WITS University
- University of Pretoria
- University of Johannesburg
- University of the Free State
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rhodes University
- TSiBA
- University of the Western Cape
- Stellenbosch University
- University of Cape Townity
- Must have an academic average of 65% after the first semester of 2023
- Turning no older than 22 years in 2023
Dates
Deadline: April 28, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
What the Fellowship covers
- Applicants with a combined annual household income of R1 million and below will receive full funding (university accommodation meals, textbooks & tutoring allowance, and a monthly stipend)
- Applicants with a combined household income above R1 million will receive needs-based funding
- Potential funding will be communicated at interview stage
Entrepreneurial mindset development
- Speakers and seminars
- Experiential exercises
- Workshops
- Access to business incubation
- Access to business/venture funding via E Squared, an Allan Gray Orbis Foundation sister entity (available to students on IVC programme and graduates depending on business idea viability)
Personal development
- Personal Leadership Officer (mentorship)
- Industry mentor
- Like-minded community
Outcomes
- Tertiary qualification
- Responsible thinking and entrepreneurial mindset
- Well-rounded individual
- Community-orientated learning
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
