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PLEASE NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF BURSARY
APPLICATIONS IS APRIL 15, 2008
PEITF BURSARY
GUIDELINES
1.
The PEITF bursaries shall be available to all members of the
PEITF subject
to the
eligibility requirements listed below.
2. To be
eligible for a PEITF bursary a teacher must:
a. be a member of the PEI
Teachers' Federation;
b. have completed one year of
teaching in the school system of PEI;
c. be hired to teach in P.E.I.
for one year immediately after being
awarded a bursary;
d. have not received a PEITF
bursary in the two years preceding the
date of application;
e. accurately complete and
submit the necessary application
form by the deadline established by PEITF;
f. successfully complete a
post-secondary level three semester hour
credit or a Department of Education approved
credit, within a year
after being granted the bursary by P.E.I.T.F.
3. The
maximum number of bursaries to be granted each year shall be
twenty-five and
each shall be valued at three hundred dollars.
4. A
teacher awarded a bursary will receive the bursary only after
providing the
PEITF with written
evidence of successful completion of a three semester
hour credit as per
number 2(f) in the eligibility requirements above.
5. The
bursaries will be awarded in accordance with the following
formula and
alternates from
each Area Association shall be selected if sufficient
applications
have been submitted:
Western Area Teachers’
Association - 9 bursaries
Eastern Area Teachers’
Association - 14 bursaries
L'Association des enseignantes
et des enseignants de langue française - 2 bursaries.
(The formula is based on the
percentage the membership of an Area Association is of the
total P.E.I.T.F. membership.)
6. In
the event that there is not a sufficient number of applicants
from one Area
Association to
fill the number of bursaries allotted the Area Association, the
bursaries not
utilized will be allotted on a provincial basis.
7. If a
successful applicant does not accept the bursary, the first
alternate from
that Area
Association will become the recipient of the bursary. If there
are no
alternates from
that particular Area Association, the bursary shall be
awarded on a
provincial basis.
8. The
bursaries will be announced at the Annual Meeting of the
P.E.I.T.F.
Board of
Governors.
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