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The Open University (OU) has launched a new fund to support people displaced by conflict or crisis.
The Open Futures Sanctuary Scholarship programme will provide the opportunity for new, UK-resident students who have been displaced from their homeland or place of residence for political, economic, ethnic, environmental, or human rights pressures, to study for free.
This might include refugees, forced migrants, and those fleeing armed conflict.
The fund will make twelve scholarships available each year for the next three years, awarding a full fee waiver amounting to £20,000 per student.
A further fifty fully funded places will be offered on OU Access Modules starting in Autumn 2022 to help applicants develop the skills and confidence to progress into higher education.
To be eligible for either a scholarship or Access Module Fee Waiver, applicants need to meet all the following criteria:
- Be a forced migrant to the United Kingdom (a person displaced from their homeland or place of residence for political, economic, ethnic, environmental, or human rights pressures)
- Have a personal annual income of not more than £25,000 or be in receipt of a qualifying benefit
- Be ordinarily resident in the UK
- Hold no existing higher education qualification attained in the UK
- Be a new student to The Open University in the academic year 2022/23
- Be intending to enrol for an undergraduate OU module commencing in the 2022/23 academic year. If you are applying for an Access Module Fee Waiver you must be intending to study an Access module
- Be studying at a minimum intensity of 25% (30 credits) per academic year
The deadline for applications is midnight on the 22nd July 2022.
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