The Colombo Spirit Scholarship for Returning Residents is open to Residents who plan to return to Lincoln College in 2019, who have completed at least one year of full time study while resident at the College.
Closing date and time: Wednesday 5 December 2018, 11am
The Colombo Scholarships
In April 2009, the family of Alumnus Datuk Dr Sam Abraham provided a seeding endowment for what has become The Colombo Spirit Scholarship. Lincoln Alumnus Sam Abraham was a recipient of a Colombo exchange from Malaysia and this scholarship has been created to reflect his enduring spirit and legacy, as well as the spirit of the Colombo venture: knowledge, skills, friendship, cultural exchange, and people to people relationships.
The Colombo Plan was crucial to the growth of Australian tertiary education in the international market. Lincoln College has long benefited from the short term and long term effects of the Colombo Plan and the scholars who travelled here to earn their degrees via the scheme. The College has had Colombo Plan recipients in residence from several of the Colombo plan countries, but mostly from Malaysia. Their spirit imbues the spirit of Lincoln College.
“Though not often acknowledged, the Colombo Plan students and particularly those from Malaysia (who were the single biggest group) played a major part in the reshaping of Australia, its culture, its values and its people. Many of those students were active not only in their universities as student leaders but worked across the spectrum of employment in their vacations, lived with Australian families and spent countless hours speaking at service club meetings. Their contribution to Australia, whilst unmeasured, was as enormous as it is valuable…in the case of Malaysia and Australia, the Colombo Plan was the foundation for an enduring understanding based on people to people relationships.”
p 13, 1951-2001: The Colombo Plan; Geoff Sauer (Ed.)