Head of School UK Excellence Scholarship

How to apply

The Head of School UK Postgraduate Scholarship supports UK students to fulfil their academic potential and undertake a Masters degree in the School of Education. 

These competitive scholarships are awarded to particularly deserving candidates in the form of a 50% deduction of the full tuition fee. 

If you wish to be considered for this scholarship, please complete the application form. Please note that you will require your University of Leeds Application ID to proceed.  
 
We advise that you prepare your statement in a Word document first, then copy and paste the text into the relevant field of the online form.

Full eligibility criteria

To be considered for the scholarship you must:

• Hold a conditional or unconditional offer for a Masters degree in the School of Education Taught Masters for 2026 entry. 
• Demonstrate an excellent academic track record, and be predicted to achieve or have achieved a Bachelor degree with a minimum of 2.1, based on the criteria used by the School for offer purposes, or equivalent.
• Demonstrate the potential to contribute to the academic and cultural life of the School of Education.  
• Be classed as “UK” for fee purposes. 

Eligible courses 

• MA Childhood Studies 

• MA Education 

• MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 

• MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Studies 

• MA Inclusive & Special Education

Conditions

• If your scholarship application is successful you must confirm acceptance within two weeks of notification of the award. 
• You must commence your study with us by registering no later than 1 October in the academic year for which the award is offered.
• Scholarship offers cannot be deferred.

Further information

Application outcome

Successful applicants will be notified of their scholarship offer by email within four weeks of the closing date. If you have not heard from us by this point unfortunately you have not been successful.