The University of Nottingham

New scholarships at The University of Nottingham will help students and staff travel overseas to enhance their learning and research.

The scholarships will provide an international dimension to study or research as part of a £260,000 package of support provided by Santander Universities. Santander took the opportunity of the opening of a branch on campus to announce an agreement supporting students and staff at the University.

Each year for the next three years, 11 awards of £5,000 will be made to staff or students from countries within the Santander Universities’ network, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.  A further 15 mobility scholarships of £1,000 will be available annually to help enable study or research in one of the countries that make up the Santander Universities’ network.

Sophia Stanley, a third-year Politics and International Relations student at Nottingham, received a Santander scholarship and travelled to Mexico as part of her course.

Sophia said: “I was lucky enough to be studying in the city of Guadalajara, a vibrant and bustling cosmopolitan city – Mexico’s second largest. With the help of my scholarship I was able to travel far and wide across the country and experience all it had to offer. Additionally I was able to spend two weeks in Cuba after exams. As a politics student it was an amazing opportunity to see a form of Communism in action, the country and its people were amazing.”

Visit: http://tiny.cc/UoNscholarships.