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MSc award guidelines

a) Open scheme

Amounts of awards
The School of Management is offering up to 35 fee awards to students for part payment of UK/EU tuition fees in 2011/12. These bursaries will range from a minimum of £500 to a maximum of £2000, with the amount awarded to each candidate decided by the School.

Criteria for allocation of an award
The awards will be decided by the School after considering a student's academic achievement.
This will be based on an applicant's complete file, the predicted or actual degree achievement as shown from a student's transcript, and also an essay submission.

These are the only criteria which will be used when allocating awards.

Candidates wishing to be considered for a bursary must submit an original essay which must be the applicant's own work, and must not already have been written/submitted for assessment in any other situation.  The essay must be written in the English language (i.e. not translated from another language) and must answer one of the following two titles:

either
Should bankers' bonuses be regulated?
or
What role do you think the European Union should play in guiding the domestic policies of member states?

The essay must be between 1200 words (minimum) and 1500 words (maximum) (excluding footnotes/appendices) typed in MS-Word, Times New Roman font, 11pt.

Candidates must also submit a covering letter, quoting their UB number and confirming that the essay is entirely their own, original work.

The essay and covering letter must be submitted by e-mail as attached files, sent to msc.mgt@bradford.ac.uk

Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible because the number of bursaries is limited.  Awards will be announced by 31 July 2011, unless there remain bursaries which have not been allocated by that date.

NOTES
The School will not consider any essay with an alternative title: these titles have been chosen to reflect the varied background of our applicants.

The School will not provide additional comments or advice about these titles and no supplementary material will be considered.

The School's decision is final with respect to its judgement of an applicant's academic merit and suitability for award of a bursary.

To take up a bursary, a recipient must have satisfied all conditions of admission, prior to registering on her/his Master's course at the School.

b) Bradford scheme

Amounts of awards
The School of Management is offering awards to students for part payment of tuition fees in 2012/13. These awards will be made to individual candidates as follows:

for honours in class I - 20% of the appropriate tuition fees
for honours in class IIi - 10% of the appropriate tuition fees

Criteria for award
The awards will be made automatically to those holding the appropriate class of degree. No other application form/letter is necessary; there is no deadline for application other than those that are normally used; there is no restriction on the number of awards. No other criteria will be taken into consideration when making an award of a bursary (ie the bursaries are not means tested).

The School's decision is final with respect to its judgement of an applicant's academic merit and suitability for an award.

To take up an award, a recipient must have satisfied all conditions of admission, prior to registering on her/his Master's course at the School.