Vice-Chancellor's Undergraduate Scholarships with exceptional musical, dramatic or sporting talent, University of Bristol, UK (2016-2017)

Students who have applied for the Vice Chancellor's Scholarship for the 2016/17 intake will be notified whether their application has been successful or not in the last week of March 2016.

The Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship scheme is open to undergraduate students with exceptional musical, dramatic or sporting talent.

The scheme is open to students applying to any undergraduate course at the University (although, as the scheme is designed to attract students with exceptional abilities outside their normal field of study, a Music student would not be eligible for a music scholarship nor a Drama student for a drama scholarship).

Historically, scholarships in Music and Drama have been valued at £3,000. Scholarships in Sport have been valued at £1,500. No more than 20 scholarships are usually awarded within an academic year. This will be confirmed in due course.

Eligibility
- Students applying for a single or joint honours Music degree will not be eligible for a Music scholarship and students applying for a single or joint honours Drama degree will not be eligible for a Drama scholarship.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate outstanding artistic, creative or sporting potential. Awards will be made on a competitive basis but applicants will normally be expected to satisfy the following minimum criteria:
- Music/vocal awards: A minimum of Grade VIII in examinations offered by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (or equivalent). Those students short listed for a scholarship will be required to attend an audition in Bristol at the end of February or beginning of March 2016. Full details will be sent to short listed students during the first two weeks in February. Any students invited to audition, who are not able to attend on the advertised date, will not be considered for a scholarship. Travel Bursaries to attend the audition are available for home (UK) students from lower income families (normally those with household incomes of £42,620 or less).
- Drama awards: Evidence of sustained extra-curricular engagement with theatre and/or filmmaking, along with distinguished achievement in relevant school subjects (eg theatre studies, film studies or other arts/humanities subjects).
- Sporting awards: Successful applicants will have had considerable success at representative level. It would be unusual for an award to be given to a student who had not had International honours, at least at Junior level. Although a student might apply for other scholarships, such as the government funded Talented Athlete Sports Scheme awards, the holder of a Vice-Chancellor’s award must not hold other funded sporting grants.

Contact details
- Department of Music
Professor Katharine Ellis, email katharine.ellis@bristol.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)117 331 4041.
- Department of Drama: Film, Music, Television
Dr EK Rycroft, email e.rycroft@bristol.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)117 331 5282.
- Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health
Mr Matt Paine, email Matt.Paine@bristol.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)117 331 1117.

Further details:
http://www.scholarships-links.com