The aim of UJ’s Next Generation Scholars (NGS) Programme is to enable postgraduate students to focus on, and succeed at, their studies without the distraction of financial anxieties. The programme is currently supported by the Ford Foundation, Murray & Roberts, Nedbank, Old Mutual and PetroSA who collectively contributed R14.7 million, while UJ contributed R8.7 million from its own reserves.
Thirty-one new awards were made in 2010 under the NGS, bringing to 63 the number of students in the programme and paying out R5.95 million. The NGS bursaries were awarded for the last time and it is anticipated that 87 graduates (47 doctoral and 40 master's) will have emerged from the programme by the end of 2014, with the first set of doctoral graduates being employed on completion of their studies in the academic year beginning 2012.
Master's students make up 62% of the total in the programme, the remainder being at doctoral level. In 2009,
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34% of the students supported by the Programme were from the Faculty of Science;
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30% from Humanities;
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14% from Engineering and the Built Environment;
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17% from Health Sciences and
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small numbers from Management, Law and Education.