The University website offers information on financial support and advice:

• For an overwiew of living costs, please visit the Financial support and advice webpage.
• For 10 top tips how to manage your money, please go to the Manage your money webpage.
• For information on how to pay the tuition and accommodation fees, please visit the Payments website.
• For information about University and external funding for home and international students, please go to the Student Funding Office website.
• For information about Education Scholarships and Prizes, please visit the Student Funding Office - Prizes: Education website.

Selected other information on sources of funding

Studyfirst

The UK government's website with information about tuition fee loans, loans for living costs, maintenance grants and bursaries.

WWW: http://studyfirst.direct.gov.uk/

Awards for Postgraduate Study at Commonwealth Universities

Association of Commonwealth Universities Directory of grants available to graduates of Commonwealth and some non-Commonwealth universities who wish to undertake postgraduate study or research at a Commonwealth university outside their own country.

WWW: http://www.acu.ac.uk/

ESRC Postgraduate Funding

Part of the ESRC's Mission Statement is to support postgraduate training in the social sciences. The ESRC's Board of Examiners exists to enable the division to allocate studentships to the highest quality candidates through an annual competition. The Board's responsibility is to view applications for PhD studentships through the Research Studentship competition.

WWW: http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/

Student scholarships (ORSAS): Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme

ORSAS awards offer international postgraduate students the opportunity to carry out a broad range of research at well-established UK academic institutions of worldwide recognition. ORSAS award holders make a valuable contribution, not only to the British research base, but also to economic, scientific, educational and other aspects of life in their own country. Meanwhile, their involvement in British academic life and the wider cultural experiences offered in the UK contribute to their personal development and can help increase their future opportunities.

ORSAS awards provide funding to pay the difference between the international student tuition fees and the home/EU student tuition fees charged by the academic institution that the student attends. ORSAS awards do not cover the home/EU fee element, maintenance or travel expenses.

Please remember that ORSAS awards are intended for students of full-time postgraduate research study only, and not for those undertaking undergraduate or taught postgraduate study.

WWW: http://www.orsas.ac.uk/

Publications

The following should be available from most good libraries or bookshops:

The Grants Register

"The most authoritative and comprehensive guide available to postgraduate grants and professional funding worldwide. For over twenty years The Grants Register has been the leading source for up to date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. - With details of over 4,000 awards, The Grants Register is more extensive than any comparable publication. Each entry has been verified by the awarding bodies concerned ensuring that every piece of information is accurate. As an annual publication, each edition also provides the most current details available today."

The Directory of Grant Making Trusts: 2005-06

This comprehensive reference work covers 2,500 grant-making trusts, each with the potential to give at least GBP20,000 a year. With fully updated information supplied by the trusts themselves, the entries include: * contact details * what is (and is not) funded * type and range of grants made * examples of recent grants The extensive indexes - by geographical area, field of interest and type of beneficiary, and type of grant - allow users to target the trusts that are most relevant to their needs.