Refugee Scholarships - Updated 2012 Listings

Windle Trust International is a registered UK charity based in the university city of Oxford, with offices also in Sudan, and sister organizations in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. The Trust’s work is funded by a wide range of donors and supported by universities and colleges in Britain and Africa. Windle Trust International provides access to education and training for those affected by conflict in Africa. We equip talented young Africans to meet the challenges of development in their own countries. The Trust’s activities include sponsoring study in schools, universities and colleges in Africa and in the United Kingdom, and intensive English programmes to enable refugees and other caught up in Africa’s conflicts to access training, employment and community leadership roles. Please check out their website for Scholarships for Refugees offered for 2012.

Grants aim to enable refugee academics achieve employment in the UK at a level commensurate with their skills and experience in the long term. Grants can support refugee academics to re-qualify in a range of professions in the UK such as teaching, academia, engineering, law, the charity sector and medicine etc. CARA typically holds 2 grant rounds a year, with deadlines for applications every June and December. Decisions on applications are made two months after the deadlines. Please check out their website for Scholarships for Refugees offered for 2012.

The University welcomes applications from talented international students from diverse regional and cultural backgrounds, including refugee and asylums seekers. Comprehensive advice and information about access and support can be found in the Refugees and Asylum Seekers section of Future Students. In addition to potential eligibility for Access and Commonwealth Scholarships, the University has a generous scholarship program and eligible students are encouraged to apply. Please check out their website for Scholarships for Refugees offered for 2012.

The Hegg Hoffet Fund for Displaced Women Graduates assists graduate women (in special cases tertiary women students) who have been displaced as a result of war, political upheaval or other serious emergencies. Some are fleeing gender-related atrocities in their home countries, such as rape, honour crimes, forced marriage and female mutilation. Others fear for their lives because of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Arriving in a new country, most face complex challenges to integration, among them language difficulties, unemployment, rejection of foreign qualifications and the need for retraining. Please check out their website for Scholarships for Refugees offered for 2012.

UNHCR provides, on a limited basis, scholarships for refugees at the tertiary level in universities and polytechnic institutions through the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative Fund (DAFI). Funding for this programme is provided by the Federal Government of Germany. The purpose of the DAFI Programme is to contribute to the self-reliance of refugees by providing them with a professional qualification for future employment. Scholarships are granted only for studies in the country of asylum. Preferably, UNHCR would like to see the graduates return home and contribute to the reconstruction of their home country, or to the development of the country of asylum or the refugee community at large. Please check out their website for Scholarships for Refugees offered for 2012.