SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND AWARDS

 

Consideration, based on need, is given annually to UK residents towards the cost of starting or continuing their education at college or university. If there are exceptional circumstances that prevent you from meeting the aplication deadline please contact the Eduction Coordinator. Preference will be given to students intending to enter the Communications and Content industries after completing their course.   Financial assistance application form

 

Major Awards are offered annually for UK residents .  If there are exceptional circumstances that prevent you from meeting the application deadline please contact the Educaton Coordinator. Preference is given to those applying for courses in communication and content, including papermaking, packaging, publishing, bookbinding, conservation, librarianship and archiving. major award application form

 

Francis Mathew was Manager of ‘The Times' from 1948 to 1965. On his death in 1965 his many friends in the industry established a memorial fund and asked the Stationers' Company to administer it to provide travelling scholarships for students. Applicants must be UK residents. Francis Mathew Application Form

 

 

The Prize and Scholarship Fund supports excellence in the pursuit of knowledge by awarding prizes and scholarships to: the children of Liverymen and Freemen of the Stationers' Company studying for a degree, or carrying out further education or research at a University or College of Higher Education in the UK or overseas; students on courses linked to the Communications and Content industries through appropriate educational establishments in the form of funds for prizes.

Annual prizes are awarded for journalism to students at City University and for media techniques to students working through City and Guilds.

 

Note re UK Resident definition: The official definition of ‘resident in the UK is: ‘The student is settled in the United Kingdom on the first day of the academic year of the course, and has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) throughout the three years immediately preceding that date, and provided that he or she has not been resident therein, during any part of the three year period, wholly or primarily for the purpose of receiving full-time education’