Info For Y'all Westward Africa Scholarship System For International Postgraduate Students

West Africa Scholarship Scheme for Postgraduate students

Course(s) Offered: Social Sciences, Health, Sciences, Business
Course Level: Postgraduate
Provider: Durham University
Country to Study in: UK

Scholarship Description
The Durham University volition survive awarding iii postgraduate scholarships to outstanding candidates from West Africa.

Each scholarship is awarded inward the cast of a one-year postgraduate taught tuition fee waiver; 1 each inward the Faculty of Social Sciences together with Health, Faculty of Science together with Durham Business School .

Eligibility
To survive eligible, applicants must:
  • Hold a offset score bachelors bird from a West African establishment together with satisfy the admissions requirement of your chosen course, including English linguistic communication Language proficiency
  • Be a national from, together with residing in, 1 of the listed W African countries (see below)
  • Liable to pay fees at the overseas educatee rate
  • Intending to start your class of written report inward September 2012
  • Submit alongside your initial application a 1 page disceptation of purpose. This should include your eligibility for the award, your motivation for taking the class together with coming to the UK together with whatsoever relevant extra-curricular activities/work experience.
Selection Criteria:
The scholarship system is awarded on a competitive basis. Each abide by volition survive made to students on the dry reason of academic excellence. The disceptation of utilization volition survive used to aid farther jurist students.

Eligible groups
Nationals of the next W/African countries:
  • Benin, 
  • Cameroon, 
  • Gambia, 
  • Ghana, 
  • Nigeria, 
  • Togo
Participating Institution(s)
Durham University UK

Fields of study
The eligible subjects are Accounting, Banking, Anthropology, Archaeology, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Engineering, Finance, Human Resource, Management, Marketing, Geography, Law, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Politics together with International Relations, Psychology, Public Policy together with Health, Sociology, together with Social Work.

Excluding the MBA Programme together with distance learning courses.

Number of awards
Three (3) awards

Sponsorship duration
For the whole duration of the programme

Scholarship benefits
Students create non accept to pay for their tuition fees exactly are exclusively responsible for accommodation together with living costs during their remain inward the UK.

As an example, UKBA recommend that students accept GBP 600 per calendar month for living costs together with a fifty calendar week remain inward Ustinov, Durham’s postgraduate College costs approximately, GBP 6,000.

Method of Application
All students who run into the higher upwards criteria volition automatically survive considered for the scholarship

DEADLINES:
The deadline for applications inward lodge to survive considered for the abide by is thirty Apr 2012

Please note:
Applications volition survive considered past times a panel of senior academics from the relevant faculties
Successful students volition survive informed past times 1 July 2012

Contact
If you lot accept whatsoever questions nearly the Scheme delight contact international.office[at]durham.ac.uk.

Scholarship Application Deadline: thirty Apr 2012
Open to International students: Yes (ONLY W/Africans)

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