Scholarships

Robin & Anne Scoular Scholarship

For an Otumoetai College student wishing to undertake tertiary study in New Zealand and is intended for a student whose circumstances would otherwise make tertiary study a significant financial challenge.

This $31,500 scholarship is paid in semester installments over 3 years for a student who has completed Years 12 and 13 at Otumoetai College and who is intending to enrol in a full-time degree programme at a New Zealand tertiary institute in the following year.

Enquiries should be directed through the Year 13 Deans at Otumoetai College by calling 07 576 2316.

About Robin & Anne Scoular:

Robin grew up in Napier, and in his first three summers as an Otago University student, he worked in a Williams & Kettle wool store.

Robin’s foreman was an intelligent, well-read man but had had no tertiary education because his parents in the 1930s could not afford it. This left an impression on Robin who, after becoming a graduate of Otago Medical School, later went on to become a physician at Tauranga Hospital for over 30 years.

He married Anne, who qualified as a physiotherapist. They had four children who all attended Otumoetai College, and in turn all qualified in tertiary education.

Robin and Anne set up the Scoular Scholarship in 2012 for Year 13 students from Otumoetai College to undertake tertiary education.

“Our wish is that a bright young man or woman in the years to come gets financial assistance to have a professional university education – who without it would be otherwise unable to.”