Johannesburg
AMASA’s Bursary Fund seeks to bring fresh media talent into the current staff-starved industry. Monies are accumulated through AMASA’s Fund Raising efforts each year.
The Bursary Fund will allow individuals to have a foot in the door at one of South Africa’s top media agencies. AMASA’s intention is to allow students with talent and potential full access to the industry and to gather real experience on the ground in order to kick start a career in Media. The Bursary Fund will call for applications from students and those interested in starting a career in media, from October each year. Following a successful interview process, bursaries will be announced and awarded in December or January of each financial year.
Cape Town
Please note qualifying applicants MUST first have been accepted at one of the advertising schools listed below. Please visit their websites to enquire about the closing dates for their application process for 2009. One of AMASA’s key initiatives is to raise funds to help further the education within the advertising & media industry. Thanks to your support in AMASA we have committed to a annual bursary to a well deserving PDI candidate worth at least R35,000 towards 1 years worth of tuition fees in 2009. Our first candidate selected by AMASA during 2008 was Luzuko Sicam. Luzuko had completed his 3 year diploma in Marketing at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in 2007. However he really wanted to get into advertising and required further funding to fulfill his wish to study a 1 year post graduate course at the AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town. We were very pleased to award this to Luzuko which have majority funded his studies to the value of R30,000, he is on track to now graduate from the AAA School in December 2008.