Hi everyone,

Hopefully the university will clear this one up for me, but I thought I'd post it here as a question. I received an offer to study my PhD in the social sciences from an Australian university, but it did not mention anything about scholarships. It described the "Type of place: RTS/CTS", but I don't know what this means. Does it mean that I have been offered a scholarship or is the scholarship application done separately?

Scholarship will be offered seperately (though you should have had to fill out a scholarship application when you applied for the PhD, for an APA or a local scholarship.) RTS/CTS is Research/Commonwealth Training Scheme which basically means you dont pay tuition fees for your PhD. If you have filled out a scholarship application and haven't recieved a reply you may well get this soon as it would be seperate (awarded by federal funding but administered by the scholarships section of the university).