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Overseas Research Students, ORS Awards Scheme, 2000: Notice by the Board of Graduate Studies

New Awards under this scheme will be offered on a competitive basis to overseas students:

(a) whom the Board of Graduate Studies have admitted, either conditionally or unconditionally, to commence full-time research for a research degree during the academical year 2000-01.

or

(b) who are currently registered Graduate Students, are paying 'full-cost' fees without an ORS Award, and expect to continue full-time research for a research degree during the academical year 2000-01. (It should, however, be noted that those for whom the academical year 2000-01 will be the third year of their research degree will not normally be considered eligible.)

Each Award will cover the difference between the tuition fee for a home postgraduate student and the 'full-cost' fee chargeable to an overseas postgraduate student.

The University's nominations for Awards must be made to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals by 30 May 2000. It is therefore essential that any overseas undergraduate, Affiliated Student, or postgraduate student not already a registered Graduate Student who proposes to commence research for a research degree during the academical year 2000-01, and wishes to be considered for an ORS Award 2000, should submit his or her application for admission as a Graduate Student (the CIGAS forms) to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible and not later than 31 March 2000. Candidates for admission who are eligible to be considered for an Award will then receive from the Board of Graduate Studies a form of application for an ORS Award 2000 (CVCP Form ORS/1) for completion and return to the Board by 28 April 2000 at the latest. Wherever possible, candidates should submit ORS applications well in advance of the deadline.

Any current Graduate Student who believes himself or herself to be eligible to apply for an Award should get in touch with the Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies, 4 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RZ, from whom application forms may be obtained.

Prospective applicants for an Award and their advisers are asked by the Board of Graduate Studies to note that, because of the further reduction in the maximum number of nominations which the University is permitted to make to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, competition for nominations is likely to be particularly severe.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 19 January 2000
Copyright © 2000 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.