JKAANZ Design Excellence Award

Jamshaid Khan Architects & Associates (JKAA) is an innovative, employee-owned architectural practice founded in 2007, delivering architecture, interior, and urban design services across Pakistan, New Zealand, and the UAE.

Applications for 2026 are now open!

Opens: 6th May 2026 | Close: 3rd June 2026

Eligibility Criteria

To apply you must:

• Be a domestic learner, for example, a New Zealand citizen or Permanent Resident
• Have completed 120 credits in one of the below programmes:
  • Architecture
    • Bachelor of Architecture
    • Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
  • Creative Industries
    • Bachelor of Design and Contemporary Art
• Have a GPA of 6.0 or above in your most recent semester of study, and passed all previous papers in your programme of study

How to apply

Apply online using the form.

As part of your application you will need to respond to the following questions:

• tell us a little about yourself, especially around your goals and achievements, community involvement and personal strengths (Examples of community involvement include church, sports, or interest group networks. Personal strengths can include anything that helps you reach goals, for example – hardworking, achiever).
• what are you studying at Unitec and what are your employment and career aspirations beyond that?
• what motivates you to succeed in your study?
• do you have a potential job or type of company you would like to work for and why?
• please detail the financial challenges and/or difficult circumstances you believe would support this application, and how this scholarship help support you with your studies?
• Supply a portfolio of your work

Selection Bases

Once scholarship applications close, the Scholarships & Mentoring Team (“Team”) check that the applicants have:

• completed the online application
• applied to, or are currently enrolled in the final year of a relevant Unitec programme; and
• enrolled as a domestic ākonga.

The Team sends all eligible applications to the Scholarship Selection Committee for review.

Selection Process

Selection committees (“Committee”) are made up of at least two relevant members of Unitec and one representative from JKAANZ Limited.

The Sponsor will be invited to participate in the selection committee review or may request to review a shortlist advised by the Committee.

The committee review all applications received and will make award recommendations based on a combination of:

• responses to the scholarship application questions
• Unitec priority group goals outlined in 8.1 above
• Committee and Sponsor preferences outlined in 8.2 above

 Committee award decisions are authorised by the Committee Chair upon confirmation from JKAANZ Limited who will formalise final Recipient selection.

What happens after the selection?

The Scholarships & Mentoring team are the kaitiakitanga of the scholarships process. They will:

• let learners know scholarship application outcomes
• check enrolments at week three of the semester as the final eligibility check
• set up the tuition fee payments – to be made in week six or eight of the semester
• manage ongoing eligibility checks, mentoring opportunities, and future payments.

Ongoing Eligibility

Academic progress: Learners who are awarded the scholarship are expected to achieve Pass grades for all courses unless exceptional circumstances prevail.

Learners who fail one or more courses will be assisted by the Scholarships & Mentoring team to explain their circumstances via a breach appeals process.

Appeals are considered by the awarding scholarship selection committee Chair. The chair will decide whether to terminate or maintain the scholarship and will also provide referrals to academic or pastoral assistance, wherever possible, to support ākonga.

Unitec Enrolment: Ākonga are expected to maintain their enrolment status, i.e., be enrolled full-time (typically a minimum of 60 credits) per semester, or part-time as stipulated when their scholarship was awarded.

Termination of Scholarship

Your scholarship will be ended/terminated by Unitec if:

• you withdraw from the Unitec course/programme after the start of the programme
• you cease to meet the eligibility criteria
• you breach the academic and enrolment ongoing eligibility requirements and don’t successfully appeal; or

• Unitec determines that you are guilty of misconduct and after consultation with the Director Student Success (or their nominee), deems that it is not appropriate for you to continue to hold the Scholarship.

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