• Award value:
• fees per year for 3 years

• Application deadline:
• 15-Mar-12*
  *This is the last application deadline supplied by the provider for this award, we are currently working on updating this information.

• Award type:
• • Academic excellence
  • Hardship/poverty scholarship

• Award coverage:
• Varies

• Award level:
• Undergraduate

• Subject area:

• Number of awards:
• 2

• Award duration:
• 3 Years (renewable)

• Nationality:
• International

• Gender:
• Both

• Eligibility requirement:
• be a national of any African country (including Madagascar), currently living in an African country, and have one or both parents living in an African country, or are orphaned; AND be currently attending school or have recently completed school in an African country; AND have before or by January applied to UCAS for admission to a full-time undergraduate degree programme of study at UCL starting the following September, which they intend firmly to accept UCL (as the insurance offer choice does not satisfy the conditions of the bursary); AND be liable to pay tuition fees at the rate applicable to Overseas students, as assessed by UCL; AND lack the financial means necessary to pursue undergraduate degree studies at UCL.

• Application details:
• If you fulfill ALL the eligibility requirements above, please email Ms May Omona at m.omona@africaeducationaltrust.org with details of your financial circumstances, your academic history, and proof that you have applied to UCAS for undergraduate admission to UCL. For information about undergraduate admission to UCL, please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate-study/application-and-entry/ucas/. If you have not applied to UCAS for admission to study at UCL and cannot provide a valid UCAS application number, you need not apply for a bursary; your application is incomplete without a valid UCAS application number. AET will provide eligible applicants with an electronic application form, which must be completed and submitted electronically to Ms May Omona at m.omona@africaeducationaltrust.org by 15 March. Late applications cannot be considered for funding. AET will select 10 applicants from eligible applications received – with attention to the financial circumstances of the applicants. The 10 short-listed applicants will be contacted by AET in April (by email), and asked to write and submit a 500-word essay on a topic set each year by UCL. Shortlisted applicants will also be required to submit documentation as proof of the information provided in the application form. Essays and supporting documentation to complete the application must reach AET by 15 April. Candidates who fail to provide essay and/or documentation are excluded from the competition. NOTE: Essays must not exceed the permitted word count, and must be in the candidate’s own words, and will be checked for plagiarism. All students should be aware that UCL now uses a sophisticated detection system (Turnitin) to scan work for evidence of plagiarism. This system has access to billions of sources world-wide (websites, journals, etc) as well as work previously submitted to UCL and other universities. We would advise all students to consult our website on plagiarism: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/current-students/guidelines/policies/plagiarism. If an essay is found to exceed the permitted number of words, or if UCL finds evidence of plagiarism, the entire application will be deemed ineligible and will not be considered for a bursary.