Jeanne Houston scholarship

Eligibility

You must be:

female

• 21 years of age or older
• enrolled on an eligible undergraduate language degree programme (a degree in French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish)
• in part-time or full-time employment or working in the home in a role that attracts financial support from the government (eg a full-time carer)
• experiencing financial hardship (normally defined as having an income of less than £25,000 per year - evidence is expected to be provided).

Supporting material may consist of:

• a letter from an employer, a redundancy letter
• a doctor's letter
• photocopies of recent bank statements from all household accounts to cover a period of three consecutive months
• a photocopied P60
• a letter of rejection for financial support.

Value

£870 for the purpose to relieve financial hardship in respect of one or more of the following:

• fees at Birkbeck - fees will be paid directly to the Fees Office
• purchase of approved books
• costs of travel associated with the student's studies
• other (personal maintenance including childcare, living expenses etc)

Applications will be considered on the basis of need, prioritising cases where a student would be forced to leave the programme without this financial assistance.