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Scholarship Opportunity

Scholarship Opportunity

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Share your skills goals. Enter for a chance at a CSTC training scholarship.

Complete the relevant skills survey and, if you are interested, submit a short original essay for scholarship consideration. Your survey helps CSTC understand skills and employment needs across Zambia. Completing the survey is free; scholarship entry is optional.

Research participation + optional 120-word essay entry

Two ways to take part

Choose the survey that best describes you. Both questionnaires are open to respondents from all 10 provinces of Zambia. You can contribute to the research without entering the scholarship opportunity.

For businesses and employers

Business Skills & Workforce Survey

For business owners, managers, supervisors and workers. Share the skills your business needs and the training that could improve productivity and service quality.

Start business survey

For individuals and self-employed people

Community Skills & Self-Employment Survey

For jobseekers, school leavers, self-employed people and informal business operators. Tell us what you want to learn and how you hope to earn an income.

Start community survey

About 12–15 minutesMost questions are quick selections, with a few optional follow-up questions.
Contact details are optionalYou can share your views without requesting follow-up.
Free and voluntaryA response is not an application for admission or sponsorship.

How to enter the scholarship opportunity

1. Choose your surveyComplete the business survey or community survey below.
2. Opt into the essaySelect the optional scholarship entry and write an original response of no more than 120 words.
3. Provide contact detailsEntrants must be 18 or older and provide a name, mobile number and the required consent confirmations.
4. Await published rulesCSTC will publish confirmed scholarship coverage, number of awards, closing date and final eligibility rules before judging begins.

How essays will be assessed

Entries will be considered by a CSTC-appointed review panel using published criteria. The proposed criteria are relevance to practical skills needs (30%), practicality of the proposed plan (30%), expected employment, livelihood or community impact (25%), and originality and clarity (15%). Final criteria will be confirmed in the competition rules before judging.

Important: Completing a survey is not a scholarship application by itself. The essay entry is optional and separate from research participation. Scholarship awards will proceed only when CSTC has confirmed the available award funding and published the full rules. Submission does not guarantee an award, admission, employment or sponsorship. There is no fee to complete either survey or submit an essay.

Participation is voluntary and free. Contact details are optional and only used for follow-up with permission. A survey is not an application and does not guarantee admission, employment or sponsorship. Read the CSTC Privacy Policy.

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