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Fee Waiver Competition for UK-based Refugee Students Applying to the MA Refugee Studies Programme at UEL Sponsored by the Pauline Ortiz Memorial Fund The MA Refugee Studies Programme at the University of East London is able to offer one fee waiver to a qualified student who can show that he or she has been granted refugee status or has applied for asylum in the UK. This fee waiver, sponsored by the Pauline Ortiz Memorial Fund, will be granted on the basis of strong academic and/or relevant professional experience and financial need. The fee waiver is limited to students studying on a part-time basis. Interested candidates may apply for the MA Refugee Studies and the Pauline Ortiz Refugee Scholarship simultaneously; the deadline for both applications is July 10, 2006. MA Refugee Studies The MA in Refugee Studies is part of a dedicated programme of teaching and research organised in association with the Refugee Research Centre at the University of East London. The multidisciplinary course links the study of forced migration to the lived experience of refugee communities. It offers specialist options in refugee and human rights law, migration and citizenship, refugees and racism, gender and psycho-social issues, and cultures of exile. The programme will interest those concerned with refugee advocacy and welfare, migration, ethnicity and diasporic studies, and social, cultural and legal theory. For information on applying to the MA Refugee Studies Programme and the Pauline Ortiz Refugee Scholarship, please contact Diane Ball: [log in to unmask]; tel 020 8223 2770 or see our website at http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/postgraduate/refugeestudies/index.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. List archives are available at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html