Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) offers a scholarship to study the Distance Learning MSc Clinical Trials (CT) course commencing October.

Funding:

The scholarship covers full tuition fees to study the Distance Learning MSc Clinical Trials course.

Criteria for the scholarship application:

The MSc Clinical Trials scholarship is available only to a student who is a national (permanently domiciled) of a Low Income country as indicated on: www.worldbank.org

Applicants will be assessed on the following criteria:

·  the academic merit of the applicant

·  how the skills and qualification obtained from the MSc Clinical Trials would benefit the applicant, with respect to current and/or future employment; and

·  how the applicant would apply their new skills and experience in order to impact on the development of the applicant’s home country.

Applicants must also ensure that they satisfy the standard criteria for admission to the MSc Clinical Trials course.

Successful applicants will be required to:

·  complete a minimum number of modules each year of the course

·  give regular feedback to the School, and

·  co-operate with any programme evaluations

·  for the duration of their scholarship

·  and for a period of up to five years after completion of the course.

How to Apply:

Those wishing to be considered for the scholarship should complete the MSc Clinical Trials scholarship application form (PDF 82K) and submit it, together with a complete MSc Clinical Trials by Distance Learning application form and the other required supporting documentation, to:

Selection of candidates

Scholarship applications will be considered by a sub-panel of the LSHTM Scholarships Committee.

The successful candidate will be informed in August.

(The MSc course applications of those who are not shortlisted will continue to be processed.)

Postgraduate Admissions Office, University of London External Programme, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN, United Kingdom.

Deadline for scholarship applications; Applications must be received no later than 27 July.

Enquiries: Kendall Searle, Course Director, MSc Clinical Trials (CT), E-mail: DLScholarship[at]lshtm.ac.uk

For more information see; MSc Clinical Trials by Distance Learning Scholarships, GSK