HATFIELD LIONESS POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP 2025-26

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The aim of the Hatfield Lioness Scholarship is to enable a female student from a developing country where access to tertiary education is limited to benefit from undertaking postgraduate study at Durham University.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must have applied for and been offered an unconditional place on their chosen master’s programme by June 2025

Applicants must not be in receipt of any other scholarship to fund their postgraduate studies

Applicants must be or identify as a woman

Applicants must be a national of one of the following countries listed on the program website

The Scholarship is available for students starting a degree programme in September/October 2025.

Eligible programs: All except MBA, PhD and research Master’s programmes. 

Applicants should:

hold a relevant honours degree of sufficient standard to be admitted to your chosen Master’s course ; and

have all other course entry requirements including the relevant English language qualification;

not hold a Master’s degree; and

not otherwise have the financial means to study for a Master’s degree in the UK.

BENEFIT:

The Scholarship will cover:

full payment of University tuition fees

stipend for living expenses

fully funded, self-catered or fully catered, mixed accommodation at Hatfield College

one return economy air ticket from the home country to the UK, and the cost of return travel between the UK airport and Durham City

‘settling in allowance’ on arrival

cost of UK visa and the UK Health surcharge.

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NLNG THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2025

Application Deadline: Midnight GMT Wednesday, 2nd April 2025

LOCATION: Nigeria

Entries are hereby invited to The Nigeria Prize for Literature. The yearly literature prize is sponsored by NLNG to honour the author of the best book by a Nigerian. The prize rotates among four literary genres – Prose Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Children’s Literature. This year, the competition is for Prose Fiction.

ELIGIBILITY:

All applicants must submit their entries accompanied by an application form obtainable online from The Nigeria Prizes website, http://www.thenigeriaprizes.org. Completed forms must be printed and submitted along with the entries. Go to http://www.thenigeriaprizes.org for more details on submission.

Twelve (12) copies of the entry and an e-copy of each entry, with evidence of Nigerian citizenship (photocopy of Nigerian passport or National Identity Card), may be submitted either by author or publisher. Books should be submitted to NLNG’s External Relations Division, promoters of the prize, by the stipulated deadline.

No book published before 2022 will be accepted.

An author will enter only one published work. Unpublished work will not be considered. No book previously submitted for this competition may be re-submitted at a later date, even if major revisions have been made or a new edition published. The prize will be awarded for no other reason than excellence.

No member of the Advisory Board, Panel of Judges, or members of their families can enter their work(s) for the award in the period in which they are serving and five (5) years thereafter. No entries will be accepted from staff of NLNG and their families.

No entry submitted after the stipulated deadline will be accepted.

Failure to meet all stated conditions above will lead to disqualification of the entry.

BENEFIT:

Prize Money: USD 100,000.00

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