Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- living expenses
- accommodation
- travel expenses
- other
Description
Durham Palestine Educational Trust is offered to candidates who can not afford to take an English Language test.
Applicable programmes
Benefits
The scholarship comes in two parts:
Durham University will award you a tuition fee scholarship.
This Trust (which is a charity, independent of the University) will provide a maintenance scholarship for your accommodation, living expenses, travel to the UK and other necessary expenses, such as a UK visa.
Eligibility
- have completed, before July, a degree at a university in the West Bank or Gaza
- have achieved a cumulative average grading (GPA) of at least 80% (or 3.0 or B) in your first degree
- possess a certificate of English Language proficiency acceptable to the course you wish to study at Durham University.
- have submitted an online application for postgraduate study at Durham University and you have received EITHER an ‘unconditional offer’ of admission OR a ‘conditional offer’ and you are able to fulfil the conditions of that offer before 30 March
- have been active in student or community life
- live in the West Bank or Gaza and belong to a family that is normally resident in the West Bank or Gaza
- are unable to study abroad through the finances of your immediate family
- are able to live in the UK for 12 months as a single person.
You are NOT eligible to apply if you:
- have already taken a Master’s degree course, or
- have studied, except for short courses, at a university outside of the West Bank or Gaza.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Locations
Nationality
Study experience required
Age
Application
Application deadline
Go to webpage Apply for Master’s Scholarship, read it carefully and download the application form.
Do not start to fill in the application form until you have read the Advice to Applicants webpage.
You should also make an online application to Durham University as soon as possible after 01 January.
Your Application Form must be sent to us as an email attachment after 01 January and before 30 March.