Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Students Bursary

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Value
£2,000 for each year of study on your undergraduate programme at Goldsmiths.

Number available
Up to 25

Year of entry
2021 entry

Application deadlines
Applications open March 2021.

Selection process
Successful applicants will be selected on a competitive basis.

Initial shortlisting by eligibility criteria is completed by the Scholarships Co-ordinator, all applicants who meet the eligibility criteria are then forwarded to the next stage.

All applicants who meet the basic criteria for an award will have their application considered by an awarding panel. All panel members understand that applicants will have a broad range of differing skills, attributes and experiences. Panel members also understand that what is important is the content of the answers and their relevance to the question, not the standard of writing.

Final award recipients and reserve candidates will be decided by the panel.

The above conditions are in addition to the general regulations and criteria for all awards

Eligibility

You must meet the general eligibility criteria and regulations. You must also:

  • Be a UK citizen, eligible for Home fees and holding an offer of undergraduate study from Goldsmiths.
  • Have one of the following categories of ethnicity:
    • Black / African / Caribbean / Black British
    • African
    • Caribbean
    • Any other Black / African / Caribbean background
    • Any other Mixed / Multiple ethnic background
    • Asian / Asian British
    • Indian
    • Pakistani
    • Bangladeshi
    • Chinese
    • Any other Asian background
    • Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups
    • White and Black Caribbean
    • White and Black African
    • White and Asian
    • Other ethnic group
    • Gypsy or Irish Traveller
    • Arab
  • Have a household income of under £25,000 per year, which will be evidenced via your application to the Student Loans Company.

Priority will be given to applicants who demonstrate one or more of the following characteristics in their application:

  • Have been resident in the borough of Lewisham for 3 years prior to application
  • Live in a low-participation neighbourhood
  • Eligible for Free School Meals / Pupil Premium
  • Care Experienced, estranged or are an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child
  • Disability affecting their study
  • Attend a non-selective state school
  • Come from a home where neither parent/carer has been to HE either in the UK or abroad
  • Mature students (25 on the first day of their degree, taken as the first day of enrolment week)

Providers

About Company

Creativity has always been the hallmark of Goldsmiths. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive and ideas are allowed to grow.

Our courses and research activities span the arts, humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, computing, business and management across 19 academic departments.

Our academics cooperate across disciplines to create exciting new courses and develop novel approaches to research issues. Our interdisciplinary ethos has helped us to become a national leader in many subject areas.

The QS World Rankings place us in the top five UK Universities for Art & Design and Communication & Media Studies. Goldsmiths is also in the UK’s top 25 for the quality of our research, according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014 (based on research quality scores in the Times Higher Education subject rankings).

From Creative and Social Technologies to Anomalistic Psychology our teaching and research staff are combining their specialist knowledge to fashion new insights into 21st-century challenges.

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