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Kent Law School Taught Masters Overseas Scholarships 2011 in UK

Kent Law School offers a limited number of scholarships to students who are liable to pay overseas students’ fees. The scholarships are open to all overseas applicants on the LLM programmes offered at the Canterbury campus. The scholarships will provide tuition fees at the full overseas rate. For the academic year 2010/11, the overseas rate was £10,850.The scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence.

Applicants for study on an LLM programme at the Kent Law School in Canterbury may apply to be considered for an Overseas Scholarships.The scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence.
Where candidates are rated equivalent in terms of academic excellence, their financial circumstances will (if possible) be taken into account in deciding on an award. The number of scholarships to be awarded will be at the discretion of the Law School.An applicant should make a case for the award of the scholarship to them, as outlined below. Applications should be submitted to the KLS Postgraduate Officer, by post, to the addresses given for correspondence below.

In order to be eligible for consideration for a scholarship, a candidate must have received an offer of a place on an LLM degree programme. The scholarships will take the form of a full reduction in tuition fees for that programme.
In order to take up a scholarship, it will be necessary for an applicant to meet all of the conditions specified in their offer of a place on the programme of study.Scholarships may not be deferred.Applicants who are unsuccessful, or who are unable to take up the offer of a scholarship, may apply for funding in subsequent years.Any scholarship offered should be accepted within one month of date of offer.


Scholarship Application Deadline:
29th April 2011

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2011- 2012 PhD Studentships in Law at Kent Law School, UK

Kent Law School (KLS) invites applications for full time research studentships leading to the degree of PhD commencing in September 2011. Candidates will initially register for a full time MPhil research degree at the University of Kent at Canterbury. One of these studentships will be awarded specifically for research in the area of International Law and, although the recipient will be part of the Canterbury campus postgraduate community, the associated teaching responsibilities will take place at the University’s Medway campus. The funding will be available for one year in the first instance, extended (for registered students only) for a second year providing verifiable progress has been made (in teaching and research), and extended for a third year providing the candidate has upgraded from MPhil to PhD.
The successful applicants for the studentships will receive a maintenance grant equivalent to that offered by ESRC (£13,590 in 2010/11) and tuition fees paid at the home/EU rate (£3,950 in 2010/2011).Those awarded a studentship will normally be expected to teach a maximum of four hours per week in term time on an undergraduate English law module, at the direction of the Head of Department.  Some bursaries (for example, reducing overseas fee to home fee rate) may also be available.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 April 2011

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