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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM EARLY ACTION SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline for February, 2027: 18 January 2027

LOCATION: United Kingdom

University College Birmingham provides a scholarship scheme for all new international undergraduate and postgraduate students who meet the payment deadlines specified in the table below.

The deadlines refer to dates your payment is received by UCB and not dates you made the payments. To be eligible for the scholarship, your payment must have reached the UCB account by each deadline.

ELIGIBILITY:

To apply for this scholarship, you must fulfill the following criteria:

You must have received and accepted an offer to study in a full-time undergraduate, postgraduate, or International Foundation Diploma programme at University College Birmingham. Part-time courses, distance learning courses, or other levels of study are not eligible.

You must have overseas fee status and be paying overseas tuition fees. Home fee payers are not eligible.

To be eligible for each component of the scholarship, your payment must reach UCB accounts by the corresponding deadline, unless you have proof that you initiated the payment more than two weeks prior to the deadline.

This scholarship is available to students’ first year of study only.

You agree to provide testimonials, feature in case studies, and/or participate in marketing activities upon request.

The Early Action Scholarship will be awarded automatically to students who meet the eligibility criteria.

The EAS cannot be combined with a merit scholarship offered by UCB. The scholarship with a higher value will be awarded to you. The only exception is when you pay your tuition fee balance in full before enrollment, in which case you will be eligible for Part C of EAS together with the merit scholarship you have been awarded. The total value of any combined scholarships that you get will not exceed 100% of your first-year tuition fee. 

February 2027 entry

If you are applying outside the UK:

ActivityDate*
Application deadline18 January 2027
CAS issuance deadlineStandard visa service: 25 January 2027
Priority visa service: 8 February 2027
Super priority visa service: 15 February 2027
On-campus enrolment startsw/c 25 January 2027
UCB Ahead w/c 1 February 2027
Welcome Week [1]w/c 8 February 2027
Teaching startsw/c 15 February 2027

BENEFIT:

February 2027 intakePart A: If you pay at least £1,000 within one month of receiving your offer, you will get:Part B: If you pay at least 50% of tuition fee by 14 December 2026, you will get:Part C: If you pay the full tuition fee before you attend on-campus enrolment, you will get:Maximum combined amount you could get:
Undergraduate [Band 1]£1,000£2,000£500£3,500
Undergraduate [Band 3]£1,000£3,000£500£4,500
Postgraduate [Band 1]£1,000£2,000£500£3,500
Postgraduate [Band 3]£1,000£3,000£500£4,500
International Foundation Diploma£500£1,000£500£2,000

Please note: 50% means 50% of the full tuition fee, not 50% of the fee after deducting other scholarships. For example, if the tuition fee for your course is £15,000, but you have qualified for a £2,000 scholarship, you must pay 50% of £15,000 and not 50% of £13,000 to qualify. If you have any questions regarding how much you need to pay, please contact: payments@ucb.ac.uk.

Course band information can be found on our tuition fees page.

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APILA FIRST IMPRESSION AWARD

Application Deadline: 14 February 2027

LOCATION: Spain

The publishing house Apila Ediciones, in collaboration with the School of Design of Aragón and with the support of the Zaragoza City Council, announces Apila’s First Impression Award 2027, the fourteenth edition of an International Illustrated Children’s Book competition aimed at strengthening graphic and literary creation by supporting illustrators who have not yet published any books.

ELIGIBILITY:

All illustrators who wish to participate, of any nationality, over 18 years old, may enter this award without any limitation on the number of projects. A necessary condition for participation is not having any published children’s book with an ISBN until June 30, 2026. However, those who have one or more self-published books with an ISBN may participate, provided that these books were not published through a publishing house or editorial services company. In cases where the project is a collaboration (text by one person and illustrations by another), the condition of not having any published books applies exclusively to the illustrator. Additionally, the rights to the submitted works must be free of commitments to third parties.

The works submitted, written in Spanish or English, may be original or adaptations of stories free of copyright.

Prohibition on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Illustrations The use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (such as Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or similar) is strictly prohibited for the creation, editing, or completion of the illustrations submitted for this project/contest.

All entries must be original and unpublished works, created entirely through the effort, technique, and talent of a human author. The detection of AI usage at any stage of the creative process will be grounds for immediate disqualification.

The award will be granted to one project only.

The projects may have any format but may not exceed 40 pages (20 double pages), including legal pages (credits page and title page) and flyleaves. The cover: the front cover, spine, and back cover are not included in the 40 pages of the book.

To avoid mail delivery, contestants must submit one file per project in PDF format (maximum 15 MB) by filling out the registration form at: https://www.apilaediciones.com/premio-apila-primera-impresion/

BENEFIT:

The award will consist of the signing of a professional contract with Apila Ediciones for the publication of the selected work, which will include the payment to the author(s) of €4,000, equivalent to 10% of the value of the first print run of the book, as well as the dissemination and international distribution of the book. In the event that the rights of the project are shared between writer and illustrator, the percentage of 10% will be divided between them according to the prior agreement reached by both. The winning author or authors shall, in said contract, transfer the rights of the book to Apila for publication and for the international management of those rights for a period of twelve years.

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