Bluff Bursary
Three Bluff students were awarded bursaries towards tertiary study in 2009.
Joanna Fife was the recipient of this year’s Bluff Community Board Bursary. She will receive $2000 a year for up to three years and the right to apply for a fourth year, to help her in her study towards a Bachelor of Arts majoring in History and minoring in Anthropology at Otago University.
Two special one-year bursaries of $1000 each were awarded in 2009, one to Thomas Hildebrand, a second-year student studying towards a Bachelor in Science and Marine Biology at Canterbury University, and the other to Krystal McKenzie, who is in her second year at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand at Christchurch and is studying towards a Diploma in Architectural Design.
Bluff Community Board Chairperson Jan Mitchell said tertiary education could be really expensive and the bursary was a great way to help the young people of Bluff.
“Good kids come from Bluff and they go on to achieve and make their mark in New Zealand. The purpose of the bursary is to encourage and support those wanting to undertake tertiary or university study," she said.
Candidates must either be enrolled for a full-time course of study, or be in the process of applying for admission to a university or other agreed establishment within New Zealand and must be resident in the Bluff Ward.
Past bursary recipients to have their funding renewed for 2009 were Marita Leask, Nicole Vreugdenhil and Ricky Craw.