What does the ORSAS funding cover?
The terms of the funding are unchanged, and can be summarised as follows: • the objective of the ORSAS scheme is to encourage high quality overseas postgraduate research students to undertake their research in the UK • the funding should be used to provide awards to full-time postgraduate students who are classified as ‘overseas’ for tuition fee purposes • awards must be made for the difference between the home tuition fee for postgraduate research students and the institution’s overseas tuition fee for the relevant subject • awards can be held for a maximum of three years • ORSAS awards may only be made up to the value of each institution’s ORSAS allocation. Additional awards funded from other sources should not be associated with the ORSAS name • The only two criteria for winning an award are: (1) academic ability, and (2) research potential.
