Win a £2,000 TARGETcourses bursary

Win one of five TARGETcourses bursaries of £2,000 to help fund your postgraduate course

Interested in taking a postgraduate course next year but struggling to find the money? We might have the answer... For the second year running, TARGETcourses is giving away five bursaries of £2,000 to help pay your fees for a postgraduate course at a UK university in 2013/14.

Here are some of the comments made by this year’s winners when they heard of their success:

'The bursary I received from TARGETcourses has made an immense impact on my ability to pay for a postgraduate course. I have had an extremely difficult time finding funding elsewhere. I am thankful that TARGETcourses treats everybody equally and allowed me to even apply.'
Stephanie Loria – MA in Art Business

'I am delighted to have won a TARGETcourses bursary and this will be of great help in the coming year. A grant of this size will ease a lot of the pressure.'
Thomas Crellen - Msc in Medical Parasitology

'This extremely generous bursary will make a significant difference to my ability to fully commit my time and focus to my studies. A unique strength of the TARGETcourses Bursary Competition is that it was open for application by students pursuing taught Masters courses at all universities and across all disciplines.'
Hannah Wright (MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security)

If you want to enter this year’s competition you need to be registered with TARGETcourses. If you haven’t already done so, register now. Not only will this allow you to enter, you will also then receive email alerts about courses you are interested in.

If you are registered and want to enter the competition, all you need to do is answer the following questions in no more than a total of 1,000 words:

• How will postgraduate study contribute to your career goals?
• How will your postgraduate experience and qualification benefit the community, the economy or indeed any other person or group?
• Apart from academic knowledge, what else do you expect to learn from postgraduate study?

Closing date

The winning entries will have best addressed the three questions in an engaging and truthful way. Closing date: 30 June 2013.