DL DCMS Bursary Application Form

Application for a Department for Culture, Media, and Sport Scholarship for the part-time MSc in Information Security by distance learning Family Name: Given Name: Middle Name: Email Address: If you have already applied, what is your Student Number:

Eligible students must meet the following criteria:  Be a UK or EU citizen who is normally resident in the UK other than for the sole purpose of education.  Be undertaking the course specified above and not undertaking any other forms of formal education.  Not applying for this course straight from an undergraduate degree.  Have not previously held employment as a cyber security professional (cyber security was not a significant part of any previous job function – i.e. less than 50% of a previous job role). I confirm that I meet each of the above criteria: YES / NO

If you don’t quite meet the criteria, please provide some extra details to explain your circumstances:

In selecting the students for the scholarship, preference will be given to students meeting the following additional preferred criteria set by DCMS:  Persons looking to retrain into the cyber security profession, for example, returners-to-work after parental leave, those who are currently unemployed, and mid-career transitioners  Ex-armed forces personnel not already covered by any armed forces grant  Ex-police officers not already covered by any police service grant  General IT practitioners looking to specialise in cyber security  Demographics currently underrepresented in the cyber security profession In the box below, please describe anything of relevance within these preferred criteria that you would like to make known for the selection process:

1 Application for a Department for Culture, Media, and Sport Scholarship for the part-time MSc in Information Security by distance learning

I confirm that all of the above details are true. Furthermore, if I am successful with my scholarship application, I confirm that I will engage fully with my MSc studies.

Signature: Date:

 Applications for this scholarship must be made by midnight Monday 29th August 2016.   When you have signed and dated the form, please scan the document (preferably as a pdf document) and email it to [email protected] with the subject line “Application form for DCMS Bursary”.   If you have not already applied for the MSc through the University of London International Programme admission system then please also include your CV with the application form.   The University of London International Programme admission system is MSc Information Security – alternatively the URL for the admission system is https://www.evision.eisa.london.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login? process=siw_ipp_app&code1=PMS-INSEC-LN&code2=0001