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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Course fees and living costs
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- living expenses
Description
The Care-Experienced Academic Futures scholarships will offer financial support to students who have experienced being in care in the UK to pursue graduate study at Oxford.
The pilot will include the inaugural award of the Oxford-Rees Graduate Scholarship, which supports care-experienced Social Sciences candidates.
For the purposes of selection, ‘care experienced’ means having been looked after by the state or your local authority, or as a looked-after child.
This could include:
living with foster carers under local authority care;
living in a residential children's home;
being 'looked after at home’ under a supervision order; or
living with friends or relatives in kinship care – either through a formal arrangement (such as a Special Guardianship order) or an informal arrangement, without local authority support.
You do not have to meet the legal definition of being a care leaver to be considered for this scholarship.
Benefits
Support is being provided by funding partners across the University and colleges.
These scholarships are open to applicants to all academic subjects and will provide funding packages to assist with course fees and living costs.
Eligibility
- The Care-Experienced Academic Futures scholarships are available for applicants who have been in care in the UK at some point in their life, and faced barriers to progressing their education.
- Applicants must hold an offer to commence a postgraduate degree.
- These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
Not specified
To apply to be considered for the scholarships you must:
Apply to a graduate course at the University of Oxford by the relevant November, December or January deadline; and
Tick the box on the application form for your course to indicate that you are a care-experienced student.
Student Fees and Funding will then invite you to provide some additional information in order to apply for the scholarship.
Please note, if you do not tick the box on the application form to indicate that you are care-experienced you will not be invited to apply for the scholarship, even if you have mentioned that you are care-experienced elsewhere in your application.
All Care-Experienced Academic Futures applicants will be contacted with the outcome of their scholarship application by email.