The Scholarship Programme to win a two-year scholarship in the Sixth Form of a British boarding school will run as usual during the coronavirus lockdown.
The contest for the academic year starting September 2021 will begin on October 1st, 2020. All changes in the organization of the selection process due to the lockdown and the quarantine measures during the possible second wave of the pandemic as well as the updated application pack for the year 2021 will appear on ConcordiaUA website.
Following the last year’s contest, eight Ukrainians will start the new academic year at British boarding schools on September 1st 2020 (including two scholars from Kirovograd region):
- Chigwell School (Chigwell, Essex, England) – an independent co-educational school situated in 100 acres of beautiful grounds, ten miles from London – www.chigwell-school.org
- Dulwich College (Dulwich, London, England) – an independent day and boarding school for boys; only 12 minutes by train from central London – www.dulwich.org.uk
- Loughborough Grammar School (Loughborough, Leicestershire, England) – an independent day and boarding school for boys, founded in in 1495 – www.lsf.org/grammar
- Scarborough College (Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England) – an independent co-educational day and boarding school – scarboroughcollege.co.uk
- Seaford College (Lavington Park, Petworth, West Sussex, England) – founded in 1884, an independent co-educational independent day and boarding school, situated in the heart of West Sussex – www.seaford.org
- Sherborne School (Sherborne, Dorset, England) – an independent boys’ day and boarding school, located beside Sherborne Abbey in north-west Dorset – www.sherborne.org
- Woodhouse Grove School (Apperley Bridge, West Yorkshire, England) – an independent co-educational day and boarding school, founded in 1812 and situated on a 70-acre campus in Yorkshire – www.woodhousegrove.co.uk
- Wycombe Abbey School (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England) – an independent girls’ boarding school, founded in 1896 – wycombeabbey.com
In case some UK schools cannot open for boarding at the start of term due to restrictions imposed by the government on residential accommodation, the scholars will, temporarily, study remotely. According to HMCP authorities, the online teaching being conducted by UK schools is of a high standard:
“Teaching in the schools which our scholars attend is being done remotely via the web and it seems to be working quite well with schools creating a proper routine for the day and using software which allows video links and feedback from the students. The beauty of the solution is that, provided that you have an acceptable connection to the internet, you can engage in these lessons from anywhere in the world.”
To get more information about the HMC Projects Scholarship Programme, please go to ConcordiaUA website: https://www.concordia.edu.ua/home/hmc-projects/, join our Facebook Group “HMC Projects – Ukraine”. If you have questions, please write to hmcprojects@uacu.edu.ua or contact Tetiana Nyzhnyk at +380 95 008 5850.