International Scholarships Awarded

Royal Holloway, University of London awarded 42 overseas scholarships to undergraduate and postgraduate students from 20 different countries at a celebratory reception on 5 February 2009.

Welcoming students, staff and guests at the ceremony, Sheryl Simon, Director of Royal Holloway International, said: ′The provision of international scholarships forms an essential part of our work as this support enables some of the best and brightest students from around the world to come and study at Royal Holloway. This event celebrates their achievements, but more than this, it anticipates the contribution they will make, not only to the life of Royal Holloway, but to their own countries and thereby to the world at large′.

In his speech Professor Rob Kemp, Deputy Vice-Principal, who awarded the scholarships, emphasised Royal Holloway’s commitment to internationalisation and the strategic value of this to the future development of the College.

The College offers a wide range of scholarships. The Royal Holloway International Excellence Scholarships are awarded to international students who have enrolled for either undergraduate or taught postgraduate degrees. As the name implies, the awards are given to those who are considered academically outstanding and who the College anticipates making a significant contribution to the academic life at Royal Holloway.

In addition to these awards, Royal Holloway offers scholarships in collaboration with prestigious external organisations:

The Abbey Santander International Excellence Scholarships were made available for the first time in 2008, when Royal Holloway joined the Santander Universities network. These are awarded to outstanding postgraduate scholars from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. This year three scholarships were awarded to students from Colombia, Mexico and Spain. In addition to the International Excellence Scholarships, Santander Universities supports the College’s 22 choral scholars;

The Bolashak Scholarships are awarded by the Kazakhstan government to outstanding students in order to study at leading universities abroad and 22 of the 100 Bolashak scholars studying in the UK are at Royal Holloway;

The Chevening Pakistan Scholarships are jointly supported by Royal Holloway and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. They are open to outstanding scholars from Pakistan who wish to undertake a Master’s degree in Medical Sociology or areas relating to politics and international relations.

For further information on scholarships, visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/international/Prospective/scholarships.html

Indian postgrad work placement scholarships

The UK India Business Council is offering ten scholarship opportunities in India.

The scholarship programme allows students that are studying a post graudate course, or who have recently graduated from this course, to combine their academic studies & experience in a live business environment.

Business Scholarships

Each participating company has agreed to provide a specific project for you to work on whilst on the scholarship programme. On completion of the scholarship you will be required to write and present a report to the host company and the board of the UKIBC.

Scholarships are available in a number of business sectors. Where possible, the UKIBC team will place you in the company & sector that best suits experience, qualifications and career goals.

Click here for more information and to apply for the scholarships.

If you do not obtain a scholarship, there are self-funded programmes available through the UKIBC partner Expindia.

British Commonwealth Scholarships change

Students from India and China are set to benefit from increased access to scholarship funds in the UK.  However, the Times Higher Education supplement has noted that students from Canada, Bahamas, Brunei, Cyprus, Malta, New Zealand and Singapore could lose out with the withdrawal of the Commonwealth Scholarships. This should not affect existing students receiving such funds but could change the options for potential Commonwealth students attending in the UK.