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Sheffield offers £2.2m of postgraduate scholarships
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The University of Sheffield is offering £2.2m worth of postgraduate scholarships in 2015 in one of the biggest postgraduate taught scholarship schemes in the country.
F
ollowing the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in December, the Higher
Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced it would allocate £50m to provide scholarships for postgraduate students from underrepresented groups. The funding reflects an
understanding that inability to finance postgraduate education can affect access to courses and top professions for many talented individuals. The University of Sheffield
is to offer 220 scholarships, each worth £10,000 – the fifth highest number in the country.
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Vice-Chancellor Professor
Sir Keith Burnett, who was part of the UK government’s 2010 review into postgraduate education, which recommended increased funding in this area, said: “Postgraduate study is often the gateway to professions such as medicine, teaching and law. It would be a very poor society which had people in such key positions of care and influence from only one background – we need to ensure that our country benefits from ability right across the board, and that means we need to help overcome barriers of funding.” Dr Tony Strike, Director of
Strategy and Planning, added: “This national scheme builds on key findings from the pilot Postgraduate Support Scheme (PSS) which ran in 2014, involving a consortium of six universities led by the University of Sheffield.
The pilot we ran showed that finance was a key barrier to progression for the most underrepresented student groups and that a scholarship scheme was not only possible to design but that it could be effective in reaching prospective students with merit and ambition.” The 2015 postgraduate
scholarships will be aimed at underrepresented student groups, including students from deprived areas, with a disability, care-leavers, students from a black and minority ethnic background, women and men in subjects where they are significantly underrepresented and those who are carers. Funding is for UK/EU
students who have been subject to the higher fees regime; so typically graduating this year from a three-year undergraduate programme.
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