{"id":285,"date":"2013-11-21T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-11-21T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:02:57","slug":"scholarship-opportunities-for-postgraduate-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2013\/11\/21\/scholarship-opportunities-for-postgraduate-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship opportunities for postgraduate study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective students can find out more about the University&#8217;s \u00a38.5m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/postgraduate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">postgraduate scholarship fund<\/a>, at a postgraduate Open Evening.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent has a range of scholarships available for students on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Master&#8217;s and PhD programmes<\/a>. There are different awards available for students of various nationalities and for Kent alumni.<\/p>\n<p>The Postgraduate Open Evening runs from 5pm-7pm on Wednesday 27 Novemeber. Anyone interested in gaining a postgraduate degree to launch or further their career in computing is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The Canterbury campus event will cover the School of Computing&#8217;s extensive range of full- and part-time programmes including the Conversion Master&#8217;s which requires a good degree in any subject but no prior knowledge of computing, and is ideal for those looking for a career change.<\/p>\n<p>Dr David Barnes, taught postgraduate admissions officer for the School of Computing said: &#8220;All our taught Master&#8217;s programmes are available with an optional industrial placement. Graduating with a well respected Master&#8217;s and practical experience on your CV can really give you the edge over other candidates in the competitive computer science industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more come to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/visit\/openday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Open Evening<\/a> on Wednesday 27 November, 5-7pm or view the <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/universityofkent\/docs\/prospectus\/1?e=1698464\/4727131\" target=\"_blank\">postgraduate prospectus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective students can find out more about the University&#8217;s \u00a38.5m postgraduate scholarship fund, at a postgraduate Open Evening. The University of Kent has a range &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2013\/11\/21\/scholarship-opportunities-for-postgraduate-study\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[37351,1291,24357,789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}