The Ben Gurion University & Oxford Brookes University Scholarship
Welcome to our page for this important development.
The Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy Board in association with the Oxford Jewish Congregation is proud to announce the launch of our new Israel-Oxford Scholarship Fund.
Based at Oxford Brookes University (OBU), this scholarship will attract post-graduate students from Ben Gurion University (BGU) in Israel.
The prgramme carries the support of OJC's Council and OBU's Vice-Chancellor. Fund raising is being conducted by a working group that includes Oxford Jewish Congregation members and the Development Director at Brookes, with whom the terms and conditions for the scholarship programme were agreed.
Our aim is to create a prestigious scholarship that will provide full funding for a qualified graduate student from Israel to pursue post-graduate studies at the level of a Master's Degree.
Our current objective is to offer a first scholarship for a student commencing his or her studies in October 2012. Funding permitting, similar scholarships will be made available from 2013 onwards.
The scholarship is intended to fund talented students from a range of disciplines where Brookes has particular expertise. Students will be selected on the basis of merit and academic ability and the terms of the scholarship are sufficiently flexible to permit this.
This scholarship project is exciting not only because of its intrinsic merits in providing superb opportunities for students from Israel, but also because:
- Oxford University has recently created a professorial Chair in Israel Studies: see http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/26/oxford-university-israel-studies-professor or http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/49514/oxford-names-first-israel-studies-professor
- The presence of an Oxford Brookes "Israel Scholarship Student" will be a positive way of creating synergies with this development;
- It will also provide opportunities for presenting Israel on campus, and will encourage Arab-Israeli dialogue on campus and in the city.
If you feel that you are able to support the project – or if you know of anyone who should be approached for funding support, please download files 1 & 2 below. Alternatively, if you would like further information before contributing, you can contact Sandra Dwek at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Isaac Garson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The contents of this page will be updated from time-to-time. To be kept informed of how our fundraising is going and of any future developments, please visit us again soon.
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