{"id":10845,"date":"2022-06-20T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/asylum-seekers-undergraduate-scholarship-at-queens-university-in-belfast-uk-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:03:05","slug":"asylum-seekers-undergraduate-scholarship-at-queens-university-in-belfast-uk-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/asylum-seekers-undergraduate-scholarship-at-queens-university-in-belfast-uk-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum Seekers Undergraduate Scholarship at Queen\u2019s University in Belfast UK 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Queen\u2019s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK is offering a full scholarship to students who are registered asylum-seekers in the UK for the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u200cPart of the elite Russell Group, the UK\u2019s Ivy League, Queen\u2019s University in Belfast is the 9th oldest university in the UK with a worldwide reputation for excellence. A degree from Queen\u2019s is something to be proud of and can help you stand out in the competitive global job market. It is a university that prioritises academic excellence and is dedicated to helping in the discovery of potentials.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Worth_of_Award\"\/><strong>Worth of Award<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>The scholarships will cover the cost of tuition and provide an \u00a38,000 award to support living costs for each year of study, up to a maximum of three years.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Eligibility\"\/><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>To qualify for an asylum-seeker scholarship, students must first apply for, and receive an offer of admission for 2020 entry to an undergraduate degree programme at Queen\u2019s University Belfast and meet the eligibility criteria below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Candidates must be registered asylum seekers in the UK\u00a0and must be currently resident in Northern Ireland, to be considered for this scheme<\/li>\n<li>You must have discretionary or limited leave to remain in the UK, be a dependant of someone with discretionary or limited leave to remain as a result of an application for refugee status, or you or your parent\/guardian have submitted an asylum application and not yet received a decision from the Home Office on that application.<\/li>\n<li>You must be unable to access mainstream UK student funding due to your immigration status i.e. you are not eligible for Student Finance for the 2020-21 academic year.<\/li>\n<li>You must submit an application for a place of study on a full-time undergraduate course starting in the academic year 2020-21 at Queen\u2019s University Belfast through UCAS by 15 January 2020.<\/li>\n<li>You must hold a conditional or unconditional offer or have \u2018decision pending\u2019 status from Queen\u2019s University Belfast by 01 April 2020. Candidates are required to meet any academic and language conditions attached to their offer as stated in their offer letter.<\/li>\n<li>Students that have already been granted Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection Status as the result of an asylum application may be eligible to apply for financial support from Student Finance NI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Apply\"\/><strong>How to Apply<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>Application is to be done online. See the link below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>The application closes on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 15:00 British Summer Time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Click_here_for_more_details_and_to_apply\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/International\/International-students\/International-scholarships\/undergraduate-scholarships\/asylum-seekers-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><strong>Click here for more details and to apply<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen\u2019s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK is offering a full scholarship to students who are registered asylum-seekers in the UK for the year 2020. \u200cPart of the elite Russell Group, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-scholarships","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}