Inder Kaur Resilience Scholarship

This scholarship provides up to $5000 per annum for full-time students up to five years (up to $2,500 per annum for up to ten years for part-time students).

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• identify as a woman 
• be an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident or a permanent humanitarian visa holder
• be enrolled full-time or part-time in a certificate IV, diploma or degree program at RMIT in semester 1 and 2
• have at least one year of your program left to complete
• be able to demonstrate financial and/or educational disadvantage such as:
  • having a past or current experience of family violence
  • receiving a government tested low income benefit or having a Centrelink Health Care Card
  • having a long-term medical condition or disability
  • have previously/are currently living in foster/kinship care or are a ward of the state
  • experiencing difficult family/social circumstances
  • have/will be relocating from interstate or rural/regional Victoria to Melbourne to study at RMIT
  • were born overseas, are from a non-English speaking background and recently migrated to Australia
  • are a current or former refugee
  • have completed your secondary education at a School Network Access Program school
• not have previously completed the same level of program or higher, e.g. if you plan to study a Bachelor of Architectural Design, you should not have previously completed another Bachelor degree.

Preference will be given to women who have a past or current experience of family violence and/or migrant women.

The online application form will be made available here when applications open. Late or partial applications will not be accepted.

Supporting documentation

Depending on your circumstances, you will need to provide different types of evidence and material to support your scholarship application. Applications without supporting documents will not be considered.

If you have experienced family violence, you must complete this Statutory Declaration (PDF, 58KB) and attach it as evidence. Please note, you do not need to provide details of your experience of family violence in the application form or the statutory declaration. 

Please visit Supporting documentation for more information.

Application questions

It is expected that the online application will take approximately thirty minutes to complete. The main application questions are listed below to allow you time to prepare your answers prior to starting the online application.

• Discuss your passion for studying in your chosen field, including the steps you have taken to achieve your educational goals.
• What are your future plans and career aspirations?
• How do you intend to use this scholarship and how will it assist you to achieve academic success?

Find out more about Applying for scholarships at RMIT.

Applications are now closed.

Applications are now closed.

View the Coursework Scholarships Office’s terms and conditions (PDF, 698KB).

Education was a passion for Inder Kaur. She was taken out of school in Rawalpindi after the 8th grade because she was a girl. After the partition of India in 1947, the family including her husband and three daughters left their ancestral home in Rawalpindi and became refugees. She began studying again, while helping to support her family.

Inder Kaur graduated with a Masters degree in Punjabi from the University of Delhi in 1958 when she was 47 years old. This was a rare accomplishment. She became the Founding Principal of three women's colleges in Punjab, India.

Scholarships in the name of Inder Kaur have been established to assist women in purusing their dream of education. 

Quotes from past recipients:

"Before receiving this scholarship I had major doubt in being able to continue in this course due to the financial pressure I was under. This has allowed me to focus more on getting the most out of my studies and less on trying to juggle a very hectic work/study balance." - Diploma of Nursing student

Coursework Scholarships Office.