Dangoor scholarship scheme announced

Dr Naim Dangoor OBE and his Exilarch’s Foundation have pledged a half-a-million pound gift to Birkbeck, for the provision of scholarships to support lower income part-time students:

• Over a four-year period, the £500,000 will release a further £250,000 in government matched funding and will give up to 150 students access to a further £450,000 in government course and fee grants.
• It represents a total funding package of £1.2m to students who may not otherwise have been able to attend university this year.
• The non-repayable scholarships of up to £2,000 will be available to undergraduate and postgraduate students to cover course fees and associated study costs, such as books, travel and childcare.

"Dr Naim Dangoor's incredibly generous donation will help students who may not have been able to enrol on full-time courses elsewhere, but can now consider Birkbeck’s unique part-time mode of learning an attractive alternative that makes financial sense in these difficult economic times," said Professor David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck.

"We are delighted that we are able to make this donation to Birkbeck, which offers Londoners such unique opportunities in higher education through part-time study," commented Dr Dangoor.

The bursaries will also offer support for those students who fall into the 'poverty trap', whereby they earn above the threshold entitlement for government funding, but below the amount where they could afford their studies comfortably.

Dr Dangoor's Exilarch's Foundation, which has supported Birkbeck since 2005 and also funds the successful Westminster Academy School, believes in the importance of education and recognises Birkbeck's unique position as London's only specialist provider of part-time, evening higher education.

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