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
• a photocopied P60

Value

£1,050 for the purpose of relieving financial hardship.

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.