Eligibility
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Applications will be considered from potential students who:
- hold a conditional or unconditional offer to study at the University of Strathclyde for 2022-2023; and
- have submitted, or are the dependant of someone who has submitted, an application to the Home Office for recognition as a Refugee under the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees (hereafter “The Convention”) and not yet received a final decision from the Home Office on that application; or
- have been offered leave to remain in the UK on the grounds of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provided that the student has not become eligible for Student Support from the relevant student funding body in Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Applicants must live within the Glasgow area at the point of application as housing costs are not covered by the scholarship. Applications will only be accepted from prospective students outwith the Glasgow area if they submit written evidence of appropriate accommodation arrangements at the point of application.
Applications will also be considered from students who have already started their course of study but have subsequently applied for asylum and can no longer access their original funding. In these cases it will be necessary to establish that the original funding for study is no longer available and applicants will be required to provide supporting evidence.
Further Information
The Award
Successful applicants will receive the following financial support:
The University will provide scholarship funding to cover the full cost of the tuition fees for the student’s course until such time as the student is eligible to receive support from the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) or Student Finance England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
The award will include a study allowance which will be used to reimburse essential study-related expenditure. This will include payments for books, equipment and travel to and from the University.
The award will continue to be made for the normal duration of studies for the student’s course unless/until:
- The student withdraws from the course
- The student completes the course
- The student reaches the end of the asylum and immigration appeals process and is no longer lawfully allowed to remain in the UK
- The student obtains a Home Office status which entitles them to support from SAAS, Student Finance England, Wales or Northern Ireland. In this case the student’s fee waiver will end when government funding for fees commences
Contact us
Funding and Financial Support Team
asylum-scholarship@strath.ac.uk
Funding and Financial Support Team, Level 4,
The Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Wing
Learning and Teaching Building
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
G1 1XQ
How to apply
Asylum Seeker Scholarship application criteria
Please read the above application criteria before submitting an application form.
Asylum Seeker Scholarship application form
Completed forms should be returned by email to:
asylum-scholarship@strath.ac.uk
Funding and Financial Support Privacy Notice
To read how we process personal data, applicants can review our 'Privacy Notice for Student Applicants and Potential Applicants' on our Privacy notices' web page.