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If a student goes down for bona fide medical reasons during the course of the term, application is made to the University for the return of fees. If the University agrees, the College will also return the College Fee (where paid). If the student goes down before the division of the term, the College will return half of the room rent and KFC. If the student goes down after the division of term, the College will retain the room rent and KFC for that term. 8.3 GRANTS 8.3.1 Student Support Funds The need for support is difficult to define in a precise way, but for the purposes of assessing eligibility for interest-free loans or grants, it is taken to mean: ‘being unable to meet the reasonable (in the College’s view) costs of accommodation, maintenance, study, and living expenses, whilst having drawn fully on normally available resources, and not having incurred any foreseeable unreasonable expenditure’. The College has various Trust funds available to help alleviate financial difficulty. The great majority of loans or grants are in the bracket of £100 to £500, but larger loans or grants can sometimes be made in exceptional circumstances. There is also a small fund (the ‘Hepper Fund’) to assist disabled students. If you wish to be considered for a College support loan or grant, you should, in the first place, ask your Tutor to write to the Senior Tutor in support of the application, having completed on your behalf an application form setting out your financial position and showing all sources of income and other resources (e.g. loans, savings from vacation work, legacies, scholarships etc). The form can be found on the College website, www.sel.cam.ac.uk/intranet/students/Support form Oct.pdf. He or she will pass it on to the Senior Tutor who will make a recommendation for consideration by the Master and Bursar. 8.3.2 Cambridge Bursary Scheme Every first-year student who qualifies for a government higher education maintenance grant will also qualify for a Cambridge Bursary. If you receive a full maintenance grant, you will qualify for a bursary of £3,500 in each year of your course, provided that you remain in receipt of the full grant. Smaller bursaries will be awarded to students who receive a lower level of maintenance grant. (There may be a deduction from your bursary if you are in receipt of other access awards, grants or bursaries.) Bursaries are paid by deduction from the students’ College bill at Christmas and Easter, provided that the information required in connection with the bursary application has been received. Further details will be found in the University’s leaflet ‘Cambridge Bursaries and costs: the facts’, and on the website: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambridgebursary Application forms can be obtained from your Tutor or the Senior Tutor’s Assistant. Some students may also be eligible for the National Scholarship Programme. See the following link for more information: http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/finance/support.html 8.3.3 Access to Learning Fund Under the terms of the Government’s Access to Learning Fund, grants are available through the University to help those who would not be able to complete their studies in Cambridge without additional financial resources. This help tends to concentrate on housing costs, though it is also possible to make a successful claim on other grounds (e.g. for special equipment for architecture students or clinical medical or veterinary students, or for living costs that, for some exceptional reasons, are abnormally high). Application forms can be obtained from your Tutor or the Senior Tutor’s Assistant. 8.3.4 Travel Grants Vacation Study Grants are provided by the University, but administered by the College (or, in certain specified areas, by the student’s department), to make contributions towards maintenance costs and travel associated with particular academic courses (the approved list of courses is usually referred to as S Selwyn College Undergraduate Student Guide 2013-14 47
the ‘Pink List’). The Fellow for Grants (Professor Daping Chu) will advise on eligibility, but your Director of Studies should also be able to give you information. College Travel Grants are awarded by the Council to enable students to travel on projects that cannot be helped directly through the Vacation Study Grants. The total amount available is not large. Grant applications should be submitted to the Tutor for Grants by an advertised date in the Easter Term, for consideration by a meeting of the Tutors. Full details are circulated in the Michaelmas Term. Application forms can be obtained from the Tutorial Office. 8.3.5 Sports Grants The College has a number of funds available to help members of the College with their sporting expenses, especially those competing at University level. There is an application form for these grants, and the procedure for applying will be advertised in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. 8.3.6 Chapel Funds There are a number of funds available to help students intending to take Holy Orders in the Church of England, or to engage in overseas missionary work. There is also a fund to assist members of the College who are the sons or daughters of Anglican clergy. Students who think that they may be eligible should contact the Dean of Chapel. 8.3.7 Childcare Bursaries The College pays into a University Bursary Fund for Childcare which provides grants to student parents. If you have childcare costs while you study here, both pre-school and after school, you should ask your Tutor for details and complete an application form in the Michaelmas Term. 8.3.8 Music Awards Around six Choral Exhibitions (£100 per annum, normally tenable for three years) are offered each year, for all voices. Holders of Choral awards form the nucleus of the Chapel Choir. All members of the Choir are expected to attend all rehearsals and services, participate in periodic concerts, recordings, tours etc, and take an active part in the general musical life of the College. Instrumental Awards (£75 per annum, normally tenable for three years) are offered every year for certain instruments. Instrumental award holders also receive professional ensemble coaching and subsidies for their instrumental lessons. For details, see the current Cambridge Admissions Prospectus. Organ Scholarships (£450 per annum, normally tenable for three years) are offered in two out of every three years. The Organ Scholar’s responsibilities include playing for Sunday services, and any other non- Choral services, and assisting the Director of Music in the preparation of all Choral services and practice. The Scholar is expected to take a leading part in the musical life of the College, and to conduct and arrange concerts in consultation with the Director of Music. All undergraduates reading Music and all undergraduates holding a Music Award (Organ, Choral, or Instrumental) are entitled to receive a contribution towards the cost of the instrumental/singing lessons. Details of annual subsidies to undergraduates reading Music and to holders of Music awards in 2013-14 will be communicated to those eligible at the beginning of Term. 8.3.9 Imber-Lloyd and Christopher Johnson Awards Each year two students are nominated by the Tutors for Imber-Lloyd awards offered by the Tallow Chandlers Livery Company, on the grounds of their contributions to the life of the College. The original initiative for these awards came from a former Honorary Fellow and Tallow Chandler, the late Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran. Similarly, Christopher Johnson awards are made to mark the long service of another Honorary Fellow, Dr Christopher Johnson, to the Selwyn College Association. 8.3.10 Bowman Scholarship The Bowman Scholarship, tenable at Selwyn, is intended to assist with the fees and maintenance of a former member of Nottingham High School who wishes to read for an advanced degree of the University of Cambridge or for the BA degree as an affiliated student; or whose undergraduate course 48 Selwyn College Undergraduate Student Guide 2013-14
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