Helen McArdle Nursing Scholarship

The Helen McArdle Nursing Scholarship will be awarded following an application and ranking process based on the priority awarding criteria.

1. You must be a 'Home' student on an eligible course

The Government classes all students as ‘Home' or ‘International'. This status determines which tuition fees you pay, and which scholarships and bursaries you may be eligible to receive.

Isle of Man and the Channel Islands students are eligible.

EU students with a UK Settled Status at the time of application are eligible.

International students are not eligible.

You must be a first-year student applying to commence your studies in autumn 2025.

2. You must apply for and meet the conditions of your offer, then successfully enrol onto an eligible course

You must successfully enrol onto one of the following eligible full-time courses in academic year 2025/26:

BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Practice
BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing Practice
BSc (Hons) Children's and Young People's Nursing Practice

3. Priority will be given to scholarship applicants who have been employed by Helen McArdle Care or their family member have previously been employed by Helen McArdle Care

The Helen McArdle Nursing Scholarship Trustees will verify that scholarship applicants have previously been employed by Helen McArdle Care, or their family member has been employed by Helen McArdle Care.

4. Secondary awarding priority will be given to students who are the first in their family to enter higher education (first generation) or are mature students with family commitments

During the enrolment process, the University will verify ‘first generation' evidence.

Mature students (aged 21+) with family commitments will be verified via an application for the NHS Learning Support Fund. For the scholarship, we are defining family commitments as having parental responsibility for a child who is under 15 years of age at the start of the academic year, or under 17 years of age if the child is registered with special educational needs.