{"id":1560,"date":"2023-04-05T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:49:17","slug":"ai-scholarship-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2023\/04\/05\/ai-scholarship-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Scholarship Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">\u00a310,000 scholarships available for students accepted on MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), a conversion masters course for graduates with little or no prior knowledge of computer science.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"text__body\">\n<p>The School of Computing is delighted to have been awarded \u00a3160,000 for 2023-24 scholarships to encourage more students into the UK Artificial Intelligence workforce. There are 16 x \u00a310k scholarships available,\u00a0funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeforstudents.org.uk\/advice-and-guidance\/skills-and-employment\/postgraduate-conversion-courses-in-data-science-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">Office for Students (OfS)<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology\">Department for Innovation, Science and Technology<\/a>\u00a0(DSIT).<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships aim to encourage more graduates to launch a career in the growing field of AI and to improve the diversity of the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the course can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/3812\/computer-science-artificial-intelligence\">MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) conversion course.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p id=\"more-information\" class=\"text__title\"><strong>Register your interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__body\">\n<p>Our conversion course is intended for non-STEM graduates with little or no prior knowledge of Computer Science. The scholarship is available for UK and International students.<\/p>\n<p>An important aim for this programme of work is to increase the number of people from groups currently underrepresented in the AI and data science fields, and to encourage graduates from diverse backgrounds to consider a future in these occupations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"text__body\">\n<p>To register your interest, in the scholarship please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cemsadmissions@kent.ac.uk\">cemsadmissions@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a310,000 scholarships available for students accepted on MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), a conversion masters course for graduates with little or no prior knowledge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/2023\/04\/05\/ai-scholarship-funding\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21339,25563,1120,260302,50018,21632,1123,1346,112389,594,1252,18570,18573],"tags":[9658,872,5343,145910,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artshumsemployability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}