{"id":2082,"date":"2026-02-26T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:10:23","slug":"santander-250-career-support-award-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/02\/26\/santander-250-career-support-award-applications-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander \u00a3250 Career Support Award \u2013 applications now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Need a little extra support to take your next career step?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve partnered with Santander to offer 60 awards of \u00a3250 to help our students take that next career step. The funding can support interview travel and clothing, placement or internship essentials and more. It\u2019s here to help you say yes to opportunities that build your experience, confidence and future career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who can apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be 18+ and a full or part-time student (undergrad or postgrad) this academic year 2025\/26.<\/li>\n<li>Your application must be for an activity that\u2019s happening this academic year. This includes activity starting up to 31 August 2026.<\/li>\n<li>No need to be a Santander customer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.santanderopenacademy.com\/en\/program\/santander-career-support-award-2025-26?utm_source=University&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=UK_2026CSA_Kent\">Register for free on Santander Open Academy <\/a>(if you haven\u2019t already). Log in, click \u2018Get Started\u2019 and complete the short entry form. You will need to provide a short description of what activity they undertake and the associated with this activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.santanderopenacademy.com\/en\/program\/santander-career-support-award-2025-26?utm_source=University&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=UK_2026CSA_Kent\"><strong>Apply by 7 May 2026 11pm<\/strong>. Terms &amp; Conditions apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus points<\/strong><br \/>\nThrough Santander Open Academy, you can access free on-demand courses and programmes from top global\u00a0 institutions. This can help get the skills employers want \u2013 for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a little extra support to take your next career step? We\u2019ve partnered with Santander to offer 60 awards of \u00a3250 to help our students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/02\/26\/santander-250-career-support-award-applications-now-open\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78257,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,205698,223280,223276,312216],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}