Claud and Kate Delpratt Memorial Scholarship * [F7718]

An asterisk (*) indicates that this scholarship is governed by conditions. This scholarship is governed by the General Conditions for Scholarships for Coursework Students except as set out in the conditions that follow.

1.(1) The object of the Claud and Kate Delpratt Scholarship is to assist indigenous people to undertake undergraduate study at The University of Queensland (UQ) or The University of Western Australia (UWA) to gain the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS).

(2) Indigenous people means those who satisfy the relevant selection committee for the scholarship that they—

(a) are of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; 

(b) regard themselves as Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders; and

(c) are so considered by the community in which they live or have lived.

2.(1) The scholarship is provided from the income on a gift.

(2) The gift and any additions to it are to be held by The University of Queensland (UQ) as the Claud and Kate Delpratt Memorial Scholarship Fund (the fund).

(3) The income of the fund is to be used first to maintain the real value of the fund using UQ's customary procedure to achieve that end.

(4) The balance of income of the fund is to be used to pay a scholarship alternately to a UQ student or a UWA student, the first scholarship being paid to a UQ student.

3. Indigenous people may apply for the scholarship if they are enrolled or seeking to enrol either at The University of Queensland or at The University of Western Australia in the MB BS course or in a programme taken as a precursor to the MB BS course.

4.(1) If, in any year, there is no suitable applicant at the university at which a new award is to be made, but there is a suitable applicant at the other university, the scholarship is to be paid to the student from the other university and the alternation is to restart as if that were the first allocation.

(2) If, in any year in which a new scholarship is due to be paid, there is no suitable applicant for the scholarship at either university, the income for that year is to be added to and form part of the capital of the fund.

5. A new award will not be made until the recipient of the previous award has ceased to receive it.

6.(1) The scholarship is paid subject to the recipient making satisfactory progress and remaining enrolled in the course for which the scholarship is awarded.

(2) If the recipient is enrolled in a programme as a precursor to seeking enrolment in the MB BS course, the scholarship is to be paid until the recipient completes the MB BS course, subject to the recipient making satisfactory progress and remaining enrolled in the course for which the scholarship is awarded.

7. The scholarship will be paid only after the recipient has enrolled.

8. If the recipient becomes ineligible to receive the scholarship within two years of first receiving it, a new award may be made to another student at the same University but if that student becomes ineligible to receive the scholarship a new award will be made at the other University and condition 4 will apply.

9.(1) The scholarship is to be awarded at UQ by the Senate and at UWA by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, in each case on the advice of the relevant selection committee.

(2) The selection committee for each university must contain a majority of university staff.

(3) At UQ the selection committee comprises:

(a) Head, School of Medicine (as chair), or nominee;

(b) Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit; and

(c) other persons appointed by the Head, School of Medicine, or nominee.

(4) At UWA the selection committee comprises:

(a) the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences;

(b) the Head of the School of Indigenous Studies;

(c) the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health;

(d) other persons appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

(5) Appointments made under (3) and (4) must be made in a way that ensures (2) is satisfied.

10. Selection is to be based on—

(a) the candidate's previous academic results at secondary and, if applicable, tertiary level; and

(b) social or economic need.

Note: This scholarship was established in 2001 and maintained by the income of a gift from Ms Helen Delpratt in memory of her parents Claud and Kate Delpratt.