British Scholarship

Cardiff School Of Engineering International MSc Studentships provide fund
£1,500 for a year in Engineering.

A number of Cardiff School of Engineering International Scholarships are available, worth up to £1,500. All international students applying for the MSc courses below are eligible. There is no need to apply for these scholarships, eligible applicants will be considered on the basis of their application form for the MSc. Eligible MSc courses: MSc Civil Engineering MSc Water Engineering MSc Structural Engineering MSc Geoenvironmental Engineering MSc Electronic Engineering MSc Clinical Engineering MSc Data and Information Fusion MSc Sustainable Energy and Environment.

This is great scholarship for master in engineering.

• Amount: Award of full tuition fee waiver, accommodation, living expenses and flights to and from London.
• Eligibility: Indian students only, holding an offer for the full-time MSc Business Information Technology Management.
• Criteria: Academic excellence, development potential and financial need.

Along with the scholarship application and supporting documents, students must also submit:

1. A 1000 word essay on ‘How specialist academic study in Business Information Technology Management can benefit IT professionals in India.’

2. A CV documenting academic achievement.

3. A short (one page) statement giving reasons for financial need.

A national competition will be held for this scholarship. Only students holding an offer for the Masters are eligible to enter.

Deadline for the essay is the same as the deadline for the scholarships application, 31st May 2007.

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If you are students from Iraq, here good news: 

“The Iraqi Higher Education Organising Committee in the United Kingdom are offering 10 scholarships through the MBI AL JABER FOUNDATION to study for a postgraduate degree. The applications are open to all Iraqi nationals who have the necessary qualifications for admission and who have an offer from one of four London universities.

For detail visit : www.soi.city.ac.uk/pgcourses/iraqischolarships.html

• Amount: Award of full tuition fee waiver, accommodation, living expenses and flights to and from London.  
• Eligibility: Students holding an offer for any full-time Masters in the School of Media, Arts and Design.
• Criteria: Academic excellence and/or significant achievement in the student’s chosen field.

Source: Westminster University

The University of Westminster provide several scholarship for undergraduate students.From 2007/8 for the first time, the University will be offering a number of partial scholarships, £2,000 fee waiver, for exceptionally well qualified students from outside the UK/EU area.

The Faculty of Arts, University Of Bristol, offered about 10 Postgraduate Scholarships for academic year 2007/8. Each postgraduate students will receive £ 2000 ofr a year. Information available describe that subject for these scholarship are art and design, performing arts, Humanities, Non Subject Specific,LanguagesFor detail read more in : http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts  

A scholarship from The Durham University Arts Management Group will be granted for several students who wishing to undertake any branches of the arts. Subject area for scholarship particulary art and design.

For detail contact http://www.dur.ac.uk According to information from the site, Applications open four times a year, three times to make awards to group ventures, e.g. theatrical and musical productions, photographic exhibitions, arts magazines, and twice to award Performing Arts Bursaries to individuals wishing to further their development in any of the Performing Arts.

Accommodation – what will it cost?

This will probably soak up half your income, or more if you live full board in university accommodation. Finding the right place to live is important, especially in your first year.

Most institutions give first-year students first claim on halls of residence. But for some students, living with a hundred or so other people, sharing bathrooms meal times, TV programmes, problems, passions – even bedrooms – can be an unbearable strain. Others thrive on the camaraderie. Costs vary significantly between different types of accommodation and different universities, roughly averaging £60 – £80 per week with no meals. Be aware that the number of meals and the number of weeks in the academic year can vary between institutions.

The alternatives to halls of residence are renting and living at home. On average students throughout the country are paying £53.78 per week on rent, with London the most expensive (£116.75) and Northern Ireland the cheapest (£38.06). On top of this you are likely to have utilities (gas, electricity, water) which will cost on average around £200 per year. Living at home is very much cheaper although the amount of loan you can borrow is smaller.

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Guidelines on PhD Research

Roberto Cipolla, August 1995

Formal guidelines

The Board of Graduate Studies set out the requirements of the PhD dissertation as follows:

“The dissertation must be clearly written, must take into account previously published work on the subject and must represent a significant contribution to learning (eg discovery of new knowledge, connection of previously unrelated facts, development of new theory or revision of old views.)”
It must include an abstract which clearly states the nature and purpose of the investigation and a bibliography which makes adequate reference to the relevant literature.

Skills that have to be developed

To achieve the PhD degree it is necessary to demonstrate that you have mastered the skills necessary to carry out research to professional standards. The point of the PhD is not to demonstrate your brilliance (although this might also occur), but to demonstrate that you have mastered a set of research skills.

Professional research standards means:

1. You have something to say: i.e. you are able to present a coherent argument and can tell a story that your world-wide peer group is interested to hear (the thesis).
2. You are able to evaluate the worth of what others are doing. Literature surveys should demonstrate that you have the maturity, critical and analytical skills to compare your work to previous and contemporary research and to point out the limitations.
3. You have the astuteness to discover where to make a contribution and the ability to evaluate and re-evaluate your contribution.
4. You can communicate effectively to the world wide peer group by writing clear, precise, logical conference and journal articles and making presentations at international conferences, workshops and seminars. You can demonstrate the importance/interest of your research to expert and non-expert visitors.
5. You have mastered the appropriate experimental, mathematical and computational research skills. You are able to conduct literature searches, review conference and journal submissions.
6. You are able to formulate plans to meet short-term and long-term goals. You are able to meet deadlines. Professional means that you have the determination and application to work to the conclusion of what you set out to do. Plans and goals will of course change but make sure you address the underlying reasons.

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If you really choose The United Kingdom as next stop for your further study, you may look 11 opportunities to get study with scholarship.

One of the opportunity come from British Chevening Award.

Secondly, Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships

For detail of 11 your choice please visit 11 scholarship options for the UK