Brasenose Graduate Education Fiddian Awards

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Brasenose College is offering up to two awards per year for applicants to the MSc Learning and Teaching, the MSc Educational Assessment or the MSc Teacher Education for entry from Michaelmas 2026. These awards will cover full Home fees for the duration of the course.

What are the eligibility criteria?

To be eligible to be considered for this scholarship the applicant must have previously studied at Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools (formerly known as Monmouth School for Boys and Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls) or a state school in Wales. Candidates must also be currently teaching at a state school in the UK.

To be considered, please write ‘Brasenose Fiddian’ in the advertised reference code box on the funding tab of the graduate application form. Please also state the details which confirm your eligibility at the beginning of your personal statement in your application. Selection will be based on academic merit and potential to make a positive difference in your educational context.

How do I apply?

Make your application for one of the above courses by 1 May 2026.

For more information about how to apply to our courses, please visit the University admissions website.

Those who submit applications to the University after 1 May 2026 will not be considered. The awarding panel’s decision will be final.

Terms and Conditions

1. Satisfying the University’s conditions

This scholarship offer is conditional upon the student entering into an agreement with the University by signing the University student contract, which will be provided once the student has met all Department and College conditions.

2. Transferring between courses

The scholarship is tenable for one of the following courses only: MSc in Educational Assessment, MSc in Learning and Teaching, or MSc in Teacher Education. If the student transfers to another course, they may not be permitted to retain this award.

3. Deferral of entry

Deferral of the scholarship is not possible.

4. Additional offers of funding

This award may not be held in conjunction with any other scholarship.

5. Satisfactory academic progress

The student is expected to make satisfactory academic progress for the duration of their studies. If the student is not, in the Department of Education’s opinion, making satisfactory academic progress, the Department will coordinate a review to decide whether the scholarship should be continued. The scholarship may be withdrawn in these circumstances.

6. Suspension of study

You are only eligible for funding from this scholarship for academic terms where you are enrolled on your course of study. Unless an exemption is specifically agreed in writing with the Department of Education, your scholarship will not be paid for terms in which you have suspended your studies or withdrawn from your course of study. In exceptional circumstances, if you suspend retrospectively (i.e. after a term has finished) the Department of Education may agree to amend the payment schedule of your grant for living expenses, enabling you to retain funding already received in lieu of funding due later in your course of study.

7. Reporting and notification requirements

You may be asked to complete an annual scholarship report at the end of each academic year of your scholarship. The information in these reports will be shared (either in full or in summary form) with the donors/partners who are funding your scholarship. Reports to donors/partners may also include information on your academic progress from other University records. Any personal information you supply to the University in relation to the scholarship will be used in accordance with the University’s privacy notices available here.

From time to time (including after your studies), the Department of Education may also contact you to ask for information about your studies and scholarship at Oxford and your career post-Oxford, to include in student recruitment and fundraising material for scholarship support, thereby strengthening Oxford’s crucial work in raising additional funding for scholarships and recruiting the very best candidates. This information will only be used with your explicit consent.

8. Changes to circumstances

If your circumstances change or are likely to change in the future, you are asked to inform academic.programmes@education.ox.ac.uk. The scholarship will be withdrawn if you cease to be a student member of the University.