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ESSEX UKT LAW GLOBAL PARTNER PREMIUM SCHOLARSHIPS 2025-26

Application Deadline: 11 July 2025

LOCATION: Malaysia

If you’re an international student studying at one of their UKT Law global channel partners, listed in the table below, which you’ll receive as a 50% tuition fee discount in your first year of study.

CountryPartner Institutions
MalaysiaAdvanced Tertiary College (ATC)
Brickfield Asia College (Malaysia and Singapore)
Taylor’s University

ELIGIBILITY:

These scholarships are restricted to students who are overseas fee payers and are entirely self-funded

Students must register for the first year of study at Essex on a full-time undergraduate degree** in October 2025-26.

Students must be commencing study at Essex on one of the UK Law transfer degree routes from one of the partner institutions listed above.

Students must exceed 68% for 2+1 route and 56% for 1+2 route.

Students must submit a 500-word essay as part of the scholarship application process.

The award cannot be held in conjunction with any other University of Essex scholarships.

This scholarship is available for the first year of study at undergraduate level in 2025-26 only.

Successful applicants should be available for promotional activities. *Students receiving a repayable loan to fund their studies will be considered as self-funded.

To be considered for these awards you must complete and submit the application form available on their website by 11 July 2025. Alongside the application form, you must submit a 500-word supporting essay which will be considered by the selection panel alongside other applications.

BENEFIT:

You will receive a 50% tuition fee discount. These scholarships will only be made available as a reduction on the tuition fee that is payable on registration at the University. Payment cannot be offset against a tuition fee deposit if one is required.

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HG WELLS SHORT STORY COMPETITION

Application Deadline: Monday, 8th July 2025, 11pm (BST)

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication of all shortlisted entries in a quality, professionally published paperback anthology.

ELIGIBILITY:

HG Wells welcome, and receive, entries from across the world. The competition is open to any writer, anywhere, from any country

HG Wells was a self-taught writer, so we warmly encourage anybody to give it a go

The competition for those 21 and under is free to enter and for the over 21s costs £10 (£5 with student ID) to enter.

Entries must be in English.

Double quotation marks should be used for speech and single quotation marks for other appropriate purposes.

The length must be 1,500 to 5,000 words.

Entry to the competition are online only, with entrants submitting their story (as a PDF or text document) and any fee as appropriate via our entry form

All submissions should be the writer’s original work. You should not submit the work of others, either in part or in translation.

The story may not be published, or accepted for publication, elsewhere including for other publications by the shortlist announcement date (Saturday 21st September).

There is a template available below to make ensure your story is formatted correctly. You do not have to use it, but if it helps, please do so. However, whether you use the template or not, the pages should be numbered but the entrant’s name should not appear on any page except on the entry form

All entries must relate to the theme for this year’s Competition: The Middle Ground

Entrants must read the Competition Rules before submitting their story/stories.

BENEFIT:

The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication.

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