First-year University of Otago student Will Coleman has been awarded the prestigious Sir Douglas Myers scholarship for 2011. The scholarship is worth $100,000 per annum and covers four years of study at Cambridge University.
The former King’s College Head Boy achieved the highest mark in the world for French language, and first in New Zealand for History, in the 2009 Cambridge International AS examinations.
Coleman was offered a full scholarship to study at Auckland University but turned it down to study in Otago.
Coleman will read for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, along with Politics and History, and will stay at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge.
Coleman told the ODT that before he leaves in September he will spend his time enjoying university life and doing papers “just for fun, stuff that I’m interested in”.
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