Undergraduate bursary application deadlines
Most of our undergraduate bursaries have two opportunities to apply each year, in 2025:
- Round one closed on 31st March 2025.
- Round two opened on 1st May and will close on 31st July 2025.
Bursaries are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis following the receipt of a completed application with required supporting documentation. Only bursaries that are not fully awarded in round one will be open to applications in round two. Applicants will be notified of the outcome within one calendar month of the relevant closing date.
If you have any questions about our bursaries, please contact us.
Our bursaries
- Eligible for short online courses.
- Application criteria:
- Applicants should set out their personal learning motivations since priority will be given to those who are returning to learning after an extended break, or have not previously engaged with fully online learning, or are seeking to use the online short course as a bridge towards undergraduate award-bearing study.
- Applicants who can demonstrate financial need.
- Tuition fee reduction: 50%
- Number of bursaries available: 1 for each set of courses
- Applications close: 2 weeks before the course start date
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for certificates and diplomas in English Literature
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective English Literature students, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher)
- Tuition fee reduction: £1,000
- Number of bursaries available: 2
- Application close: 31 July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for the Certificate in Classical Studies
- Specific eligibility:
- Teachers or other education professionals working in UK-based settings, particularly working in deprived / disadvantaged settings and who would otherwise face financial barriers to engage with study. Applicants for the bursaries are likely to work in a state-funded setting such as a state school, public library, National Health Service or HM Prisons Service and will have a clear commitment to developing curricula and teaching topics pertaining to classical studies.
- Applicants from the third-sector organisations and relevant not-for-profit organisations (e.g. Community Interest Companies in the education field) would be considered.
- Tuition fee reduction: 100%
- Number of bursaries available: 4
- Find out more about this bursary here
- Eligible for all certificates, diplomas and advanced diplomas
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective learners, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher) and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: up to £1,000
- Number of bursaries available: 2
- Applications close: 31st July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for arts and humanities certificates
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective learners, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher) and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: 50%
- Number of bursaries available: 2
- Applications close: 31st July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for science certificates
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective learners, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher) and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: 50%
- Number of bursaries available: 2
- Applications close: 31st July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
Eligible for the Certificate in Coaching
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective learners, for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: 1
- Number of bursaries available: £1,000
- Applications close: currently closed for applications
- Find out more about this bursary here
- Eligible for certificates in English literature, evolutionary biology, history, history of art, philosophy and international development.
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective leaners, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher) and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Prospective learners who have completed an A-level course with NEC within the last 12 months
- Tuition fee reduction: 100%
- Number of bursaries available: 1
- Applications close: 31st July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for the Certificate of Higher Education in Pre-Medical Studies
- Specific eligibility:
- Home address at time of application must be in one of the following area postcodes - AL, CB, CM, CO, IP, LU, MK, NN, NR, PE, RM, SG, SS
- UK Citizen, or holder of UK Indefinite Leave to Remain Status or holder of UK Refugee Status
- Aged 21, or over, by 01 September 2025
- Hold at least 6 GCSEs B/6 grades or higher (including Mathematics, English Language and two science subjects) by 01 September 2025
- An intention to apply for medical school after completion of this course with this clearly articulated in the supporting statement
- Tuition fee reduction: £3,000
- Number of bursaries available: up to 12
- Applications close: 14th July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for the Certificate in World Archaeology and Certificate in Archaeology of the Ancient World
- Specific eligibility:
- Prospective learners, who do not currently hold a recognised higher education level qualification (FHEQ level 4 or higher) and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: 100%
- Number of bursaries available: 1
- Applications close: 31st July 2025
- Find out more about this bursary and start your application here
- Eligible for the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing
- Specific eligibility:
- Teachers from all levels, librarians or other literary professionals working in deprived and/or disadvantaged settings, and for whom finance may be a barrier to part-time study
- Tuition fee reduction: 4
- Number of bursaries available: up to £2,000
- Applications close: currently closed for applications
- Find out more about this bursary here
Eligible for the MSt in Creative Writing and MSt in Writing for Performance
- Specific eligibility:
- Aspiring Black British Caribbean writers
- <£25,000 gross household income, or in receipt of a qualifying benefit, or your sole income is a State Pension and/or you are in receipt of pension credit.
- Tuition fee reduction: around 80%
- Number of bursaries available: 2
- Applications close: currently closed for applications
- Find out more about this bursary here
- Eligible for the MSt in History
- Specific eligibility:
- To be used to cover expenses for year two research activity for home fee students
- Receipts need to be provided
- Tuition fee reduction: n/a
- Number of bursaries available: 5
- Applications close: currently closed for applications
- Find out more about this bursary here
Further information on eligibility
For the bursaries listed below, eligibility may include having a gross household income of £25,000 per year or less, or being in receipt of a qualifying benefit such as income support, job seekers' allowance, employment and support allowance (ESA), universal credit, a state pension as your sole income or pension credit:
- Edward and Ivy Rose Hood Memorial Bursary
- First Time in Higher Education Bursaries
- Honos Foundation World Archaeology Bursary
- Irene Cooper Coaching Bursary
- National Extension College Bursary
- Joy Brandon Bursary
A bursary cannot be awarded unless you have received an offer of a place on a course.