Student Bursary from UKeiG

UKeiG is the UK eInformation Group, a Special Interest Group of CILIP: 
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, with members 
who are principally concerned with the creation, supply and use of 
electronic resources, and in training for their efficient use. You may 
wish to gain more information about UKeiG from our Web site: 
<http://www.ukeig.org.uk>. 

UKeiG is again offering an award of £2,500 to a student on a course that 
has a significant coverage of information resources (UKeiG is likely to 
favour students on courses that cover electronic sources). The award can 
go to either a postgraduate or an undergraduate and all the rules 
governing submission are contained in this letter. We propose to make the 
award by means of one payment at the start of each academic term. Each 
department may put forward the name of one student who they believe to be 
deserving of the award, along with a brief recommendation detailing why 
UKeiG should choose their candidate (including some short information on 
the course). UKeiG will assume that if you accept or retain the student on 
a course that they are academically sound so your case should be made on 
the basis of their lack of funds. Our wish is to help students who lack 
adequate funding. UKeiG will NOT accept applications directly from 
students. While most of our members originate in schools and departments 
of library and/or information science such as yours, there are an 
increasing number of courses offered by other departments that have 
significant information handling or information management content and 
thus the new awards are also on offer to other departments in Universities 
throughout UK. UKeiG reserves the right to withhold the award if no 
suitable candidate is submitted.

May I ask you to circulate the details of the UKeiG Bursary to your course 
admissions officer(s). UKeiG wish to make the first of three payments as 
near to the beginning of the academic year as possible and so would ask 
your staff to submit their recommendations to us by October 12th in order 
that payment can be made by the end of October. UKeiG make the following 
stipulations:

* The award is open to students on both first-degree and post-graduate 
qualification courses (whether taught or research) which include 
significant coverage of information handling/management. 
* The award is not open to distance learners unless they are un-waged.
* The award is equally available to a student beginning any year of a 
course. 
* Each department may only submit one student.
* The Bursary is not available to a student who has received it 
previously.
* The award is only open to self-funding students who are not in receipt 
of government funding or any other award, bursary or scholarship. Students 
may have a student loan.

Submissions should be made to:
UKeiG Student Bursary
UKeiG Administration
The Old Chapel
Walden
West Burton
Leyburn, N Yorkshire 
DL8 4LE
Tel/Fax: 01969 663749
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Posted by:
Chris Armstrong - [log in to unmask]
Vice Chair, UKeiG
UK eInformation Group
www.ukeig.org.uk