Postgraduate | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 26

Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Postgraduate Scholarships in Film, Visual & Performing Arts 2011/12, UK

The School of Arts at the University of Kent, with the support of the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, has a scholarship available for the 2010/11 academic year, for a Hong Kong resident graduate studying any of our taught Film MA programmes-1.MA Film Studies 2. MA Film Studies (Paris)
The scholarship will pay £15,000 over one year, which will contribute to tuition fees and accommodation.The School of Arts is home to an exciting postgraduate community, engaged in a wide variety of innovative, quality, interdisciplinary research. Our 2008 Research Assessment Exercise submission was amongst the largest and most successful departments in our research area. The studentship competition is open to any Hong Kong graduate or mainland resident with a First Degree in an Arts subject or related subject from a Hong Kong University, intending to study for a full time taught MA in the School of Arts.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 July 2011

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Charles Wallace Burma Trust Bursaries for Postgraduate Students in UK, 2011

Open to Burmese nationals to pursue postgraduate study in the UK at Masters or Doctoral level, and who need additional funding to help them cover the cost of their studies. The Trust helps Burmese nationals pursue postgraduate study and professional development in the UK. The Board of Trustees has the authority to use the income from the Trust’s funds for Burmese who are resident in Burma/Myanmar to enable them to ‘follow courses of study, research or other educational pursuits which will advance the education of the said individual’.

Postgraduate Student Bursaries are offered twice a year, in May and November, and awards are granted to individual students undertaking, or about to undertake, postgraduate courses in the UK at Masters or Doctoral level and who need additional funding to help them cover the cost of their studies.
The Trust is not primarily a hardship fund and all applicants are required to demonstrate academic excellence as well as financial need. Our maximum grant is £1,500, so applicants must have funds from other sources to cover most of their expenses.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 01-Nov-2012

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Headstart Bursaries 2011 in Postgraduate Programme, King’s College London, UK

To be eligible, applicants must:  Be non-native speaking;  Have applied for a postgraduate research programme at King’s College London and received an offer, either conditional or unconditional. If the offer is conditional, students must find out from their department exactly what the condition is. NOTE: the award is offered on the condition that the student commences a PGR programme at King’s following the pre-sessional course; ~ Meet the English language entry requirements for the relevant pre-sessional course.‘FREE’ pre-sessional English language courses for postgraduate research applicants to King’s College London who complete with high achievements.

The Graduate School will reimburse the full pre-sessional tuition fees of up to 9 postgraduate research applicants to King’s College London who successfully complete either a 5 week, 8 week or 12 week pre-sessional English course at King’s College London. Fees will be reimbursed only to the top ranked 1-9 of eligible students, after completion of the course.

Scholarship Application Deadline:
31-Dec-2012

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