Student Scholarship and Hardship Funds
With your support, we are strengthening and expanding our hardship and scholarship programmes. A contribution to the Fund is a gift with great impact that will resonate into the future.
Hardship amongst students has become a real issue in recent years.
Students in England no longer benefit from grants. The availability of government loan funding for maintenance has fallen well behind the rate of inflation.
Many Worcester students work for up to 20 hours a week to enable them to continue their studies and the University sustains one of the UK’s largest “earn whilst you learn programmes” – but personal circumstances sometimes make participation difficult or insufficient. Students studying on many health and education courses will spend over 2,000 hours on professional placements, making additional part-time work difficult.
Worcester is currently the best University in the UK for sustained employment 5 years after graduation but students need funds to enable them to earn their qualifications and reach their goal.
- The University’s student services team operate a carefully organised, scrupulously administered scheme to support students encountering significant hardship due to adverse individual circumstances.
- Our academic scholarship scheme, which is supported by generous donors, celebrates student academic excellence annually. These scholarships make a real difference to the lives and prospects of the winners.
Read the stories from some of our scholars below.
Case studies
“A lot of my loans go onto bills, and I work part-time whenever I can, so to have the money from the fund made a big difference to me.”
- Eva Baldwin, student
In 2023/2024, we awarded over 115 scholarships and 65 student prizes, and supported over 440 students through our access to learning fund. Read below about the impact these awards have made over the years.