:: The Suzanne Furstner Foundation

Annual Scholarship

Information about the Annual Scholarship

The Suzanne Furstner Foundation Annual Scholarship combines two of Suzanne's greatest passions: TEFL and foreign languages. Running the TEFL department at Cactus, Suzanne was often to be heard laughing and joking on the phone in Spanish with the many schools we work with across Spain and Latin America. She was also studying Italian and had enjoyed some fantastic trips to Italy. It is therefore natural that our Scholarship prize should consist of a TEFL course combined with a language course.

2010 Scholarship

• The 2010 Scholarship Prize is Four Weeks in San Francisco plus a language course. This comprises a 4-week CELTA Course with 4 weeks host family accommodation, sponsored by St Giles International.
• In addition, the language part of the prize is a 20-hour part time (10 weeks) evening course in a language of your choice, in one of our partner centres either in UK or in US. Return travel New York - San Francisco (or equivalent) is also included.
• Entries will be accepted from mid-June until October 1st 2010.
• To enter please fill out our entry form.
• The 2010 Scholarship winner will be announced in October 2010.
• The winner is chosen by a 3-person committee: Jenny Johnson, Cactus Academic Director, Sarah Wilson, International Officer at Sussex Downs College, and one other person to be confirmed.

Scholarship Entry Requirements

The 2010 scholarship assignment is to write a maximum of 1,000 words on the topic 'San Francisco', interpreted any way you choose. In addition to this candidates should complete a short language awareness task.

Assignments are subject to the following conditions and are evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Relevance to the scholarship theme
• Clear reasons why winning the scholarship would be beneficial for the winner
• Originality
• Use of clear, accurate and error-free language
• The results of the language awareness task will be taken into account in the decision
• Please note that all candidates must have a native level of English

• The award is subject to the entrant successfully fulfilling course entry criteria
• The course must be completed between November 2010 and June 2011
• The winner will be expected to give interviews to the media about winning the scholarship, write a journal of their course experiences and a post-scholarship piece for use on the Cactus Website and for other marketing purposes.

• The deadline for submission of your scholarship proposal: October 1st 2010

2009 Scholarship

The winner of the 2009 scholarship was ... Tatty Scott! Congratulations, Tatty! We are sure you will enjoy your courses in Milan in May!

• The 2009 Scholarship Prize was Six Weeks in Italy - a 4-week TEFL Course with a 2-week Italian language course in Italy, including accommodation and return travel to the UK (or equivalent).

To read the winning and shortlisted entries, please click on the names below:

Winner: Tatty Scott

Short List: Truly Camies :: Rosette Nagimesi :: Sara Harllee :: Anonymous

The very worthy winners of the 2007 and 2008 Scholarships were Anna Prime and Georgina Newcombe respectively.

Anna wrote an online journal of her CELTA course and teaching experiences in Seville (Spain) and Georgina of her CELTA and Spanish courses in Playa del Carmen (Mexico), which you can view via the following links.

Scholarship Articles 2007 and Winner Anna's blog

Scholarship Articles 2008 and Winner Georgina's blog

Scholarship Articles 2009 and Winner Tatty Scott's blog