Art Elective Scholarship

The Art Elective Scholarship (AES) is offered by the Ministry of Education to encourage academically able and artistically talented students to pursue the rigorous art programme at H2 and H3 Level under the Art Elective Programme (AEP) (1.34mb .pdf). AES is available at the following designated AEP centres:

Eligibility

Candidates should:

Short-listed candidates are required to submit a personal portfolio comprising their own artwork. Candidates will be given 2 weeks notice to submit the personal portfolio and thereafter, required to attend an interview.

Application

Application opens from 9 January 2012.

For scholarship application, please login to the application system using a:

You may wish to refer to the MOE Pre-U Scholarships User Guide (4.9mb .pdf) when completing your online application.

All applications must be accompanied by an essay, of about 500-600 words, giving a brief write-up about themselves and stating why they would want to apply for this scholarship.

Deadline for the online submission of applications is 14 February 2012.

Selection for Scholarship Awards

Completed IP applications will be forwarded to candidates’ IP schools/JCs. Their IP schools/JCs will select and nominate suitable candidates for the selection interview.

Non-IP candidates will be selected for the scholarship selection interview based on their GCE O-Level Examinations results. Non-IP candidates admitted to the AEP during or after the Joint Admissions Exercise will be invited for the selection interview if they meet the short-listing criteria.

Non-IP candidates admitted to the AEP during the Direct School Admission Exercise and meet the short-listing criteria will be invited for the selection interview. Non-IP DSA candidates must fulfil nomination criteria of schools/JCs if they have been admitted to the schools/JCs through DSA based on special achievement in Art.

The scholarship selection interviews for both IP & Non-IP candidates will be conducted in late April. Candidates will receive their interview call letters through their respective Schools/JCs in end March.

Results of the scholarship selection will be announced in June.

Terms and Conditions

The scholarship is valued at $1,000 per annum. It also covers school fees based on Singapore Citizens’ rates, subject to an annual cap of $2,400. It is tenable for 2 years, subject to satisfactory progress at the end of JC1 and good conduct. Successful candidates are not required to enter into a bond to serve the Singapore Government.

Successful candidates must offer Art at H2 and H3 Level but there will not be any restriction on the choice of the remaining subjects. Candidates, however, are advised to consider other H2 Level subjects that are preferably relevant to their proposed course of study at undergraduate level.