Post Grad Law Bursaries Available

Alumni of Woldingham School - Bursaries for Postgraduate Law Study

Alumni of Woldingham School may be eligible for a Postgraduate Bursary through the SCAST scheme which offers up to 125 awards of £2,500 each for alumni of a limited number of schools.  The SCAST scheme supports postgraduate studies across all disciplines and institutions.  SCAST applications close on 1 September 2009 and full details of the scheme are available here: http://www.scast.org.uk/index.htm.  

The Law School at the University of Reading would very much welcome postgraduate applicants who are applying for SCAST bursaries.  Prospective applicants should feel free to contact the School’s Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Lawrence McNamara (l.mcnamara@reading.ac.uk) if they wish to discuss postgraduate opportunities at Reading.  Applicants should either have a first degree in Law or a related discipline such as Politics, Criminology, Sociology, History or Commerce.   The Law School also has separate scholarships for its Master of Research Programmes.  

The University of Reading’s postgraduate Law programmes include:

• LLM International Law and World Order
• LLM European Union Law
• LLM Advanced Legal Studies
• M Research (Law & Society)
• MA (Research) Legal History
• M Research (Law)

For further details, see: http://www.reading.ac.uk/law/pg-taught/law-pgt-courses.asp.

The University of Reading is one of the UK’s 10 most research-intensive universities and one of the top 200 universities in the world. The School of Law at Reading is one of the leading law schools in the UK. In the government’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) the School was ranked equal 11th in the UK across the assessment of all its research, and equal 7th based on the high percentage of its research rated as 4* (‘world leading’) or 3* (‘internationally excellent’).

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