I recently learned some bad news for international students in the UK. The ORS (i.e., the ORSAS) scholarship scheme that paid the difference between local and international fees has been scrapped. It was funded by the UK national government and there are apparently no plans to replace it. See here for details.
For significant funding at Durham, they give Doctoral Fellowships to pay for all fees, but it’s really unfortunate to lose this nice piece of funding.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008 at 9:17 am
Ben,
Prof. Loren Stuckenbruck told the MATR students yesterday that the ORS scholarship scheme has not been scrapped as was wildely perceived.
Hey, you’ve been al over of late! Very interresting posts!!
Frederik
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 8:24 am
[...] Posted by Ben under Finance, PhD Stuff Just to clarify from my earlier post that the Overseas Research Scholarship scheme was scrapped…It still is, but not immediately as the article mentioned. We got clarification from Loren [...]