USW Postgraduate Sanctuary Scholarship

To determine who will receive an USW Postgraduate Sanctuary Scholarship, the awarding panel will

consider each of the following:

1. whether applicants meet the eligibility criteria for the scholarship.

2. which eligible applicants would benefit most from receiving the USW Postgraduate Sanctuary.

Scholarship taking into account: residency status any barriers applicants have faced to access and complete higher education access to other sources of funding applicants' future ambition applicants' support networks applicants personal statement. Location applicants currently live in relation to the campus your course is on.

To be eligible you must be assessed by USW as having one of the following immigration status's:

• Be a Person Seeking Asylum
• Limited Leave to Remain (as a result of an Asylum application)
• Be the partner/dependent included on the application of a person of any of the above groups*

* Spouses/civil partners must have been the spouse/civil partner on the date on which the asylum application was made. Children/step-children must have been aged under 18 on the date on which the asylum application was made

In addition, you must also

• Have been offered a conditional or unconditional offer for a full time taught on campus postgraduate degree at the University of South Wales
• Accepted the offer on a firm basis
• Live within reasonable commuting distance to the campus that your chosen course is on
• Not require additional support from the University for living expenses or accommodation other than that provided through the USW Postgraduate Sanctuary Scholarship.
• Due to your immigration status, not be eligible for Student Finance from another authority e.g. Student Finance Wales, Student Finance England, SAAS, Student Finance Northern Ireland etc.

The scholarship will waive the full tuition fees costs of an eligible full time taught on campus postgraduate degree for the duration of your original programme or until such a point that you become eligible to apply for UK government student financial support, at which point scholarship recipients must apply for this support.