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Sanctuary Scholarship
University Rank:#80
Sanctuary Scholarship
Available
About
- Funding Durationyearly
- Apply Date09/01/2024
- GenderBoth
- Destination CountriesUnited Kingdom
- Scholarship TypesPartial Funding, Tuition Fees
- Number Of Scholarships5 Scholarship
Study LevelsBachelor, Diploma Certificate, Diploma, Certificate, Advanced Diploma, Foundation, Career Based/Vocational, PhD (Philosophy Doctorate), Master by Research, Master by Course Work, Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate, Professional Doctorate
DegreesLaw, Creative Arts and Design, Political Science and International Relations, Medicine, Nursing and Medical Sciences, Other
Requirements
Additional Requirements
The University of Birmingham is pleased to be able to offer five Sanctuary Scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students starting at the University in 2023 who have sought refuge in the UK. We are committed to providing a welcoming environment for asylum seekers and we are passionate about becoming a university of sanctuary. The Sanctuary Scholarships have been established to help prospective students who have sought refuge in the UK and are unable to access student loans or other sources of statutory funding available in the UK, due to their residency status.
To be considered for a Sanctuary Scholarship you must be able to demonstrate that you meet the following conditions at the point your application for the Scholarship is made:
- You must be unable to access mainstream UK student funding due to your residency status at the point your application for the Scholarship is made.
- You must have submitted, or be a dependant of someone who has submitted, an asylum application in the UK OR you need to have already been granted discretionary leave, at the point your application for the Scholarship is made.
- To be classed as a dependent, spouses/civil partners must have been the spouse/civil partner on the date which the asylum application was made. Children/step-children must have been aged under 18 on the date on which the asylum application was made.
- You must hold a current offer from the University of Birmingham for a full-time undergraduate or postgraduate taught course starting in September 2023 by the time shortlisting for interviews takes place in mid-May.
Selection Process
The selection process is as follows:
After you've completed the online application form, Funding, Graduation and Awards will check your application and contact you if we need any further information.
Your application will then be reviewed by the University's International Student Team (IST) to check that you meet the edibility criteria for an award. The University will need to contact the Home Office on your behalf, so it's important that you complete the authorisation form as part of your scholarship application.
If your application is taken forward, it will be shared with the University's Sanctuary Scholarship panel, who will identify the applicants that we would like to invite for an interview.
For those who make it to this stage, the interviews will take place in the week commencing Monday 29 May 2023 either at our Edgbaston campus or on-line.
Successful candidates will be identified at the interviews and notified of the outcome by the end of June. All awards are made at the discretion of the panel and there is no appeal against a decision not to award a scholarship.
If necessary, the successful candidates will then be invited to an IELTS testing day, hosted by the Birmingham International Academy (BIA), for English Language testing in either late June or July.
How to Apply
You can apply for a Sanctuary Scholarship through our online application form, which will close at 23:59 on 30 April 2023. The application form starts with a section giving the University authority to confirm your status with the Home Office and for us to discuss your case with them. You need to complete this section first for us to be able to consider you for an award. Once you have submitted this first section of the form, you will then be able to access the main scholarship application form through the link provided in the submission confirmation message at the end of the letter of authority. You then need to complete all the sections in the scholarship application sections of the form to be considered for an award.
It's important to remember that the availability of awards is limited and as such not all applications will be successful. Applicants will be informed of the outcome by the end of June.