Partnership awards
What is a Clarendon Partnership award?
Clarendon Partnership awards are fully funded co-named scholarships offered to candidates who have been nominated for a Clarendon Scholarship through the normal process. Partnership awards can be offered by colleges and departments of the University or external organisations. They add prestige to your funding package because you are fully funded by multiple sources, and may confer other benefits such as high table dining rights (with college partnerships).Whilst Clarendon Scholarships can be held at any college of the University, the Scholarships are frequently partnered with specific colleges: Just over half of the 2011-12 Clarendon scholars were selected for a Clarendon-College Scholarship tenable at the college offering the Partnership award.
Additionally, a growing number of external organisations also contribute funding in conjunction with the Clarendon Fund. For entry in 2012-13 we are delighted to announce a new partnership with the Islamic Development Bank that may offer up to five joint scholarships to citizens of their member countries under the new IDB-Oxford Clarendon Scheme.
We also have continuing joint scholarships that will once again be available for 2012-13 in the form of the Fulbright-Oxford Clarendon Scholarship (offered in partnership with the Fulbright Commission) which may offer up to two joint DPhil scholarships to US citizens and our partnership with the Skye Foundation which supports South African graduate scholarships to candidates of exceptional academic merit. Candidates are first nominated by faculty deans at South African universities and then must be independently selected by both the Clarendon Fund and Skye Foundation in order to be eligible for a Skye Foundation-Oxford Clarendon Scholarship. The Skye Foundation supports approximately a dozen scholars each year at universities around the world, and has made 156 awards to date.
What Partnership awards are available for entry in 2012-13?
A full list of Clarendon Partnership awards can be found on the 2012-13 Partnership awards page.
How are Clarendon-College Scholarships allocated?
If your application to the Clarendon Fund is successful, we may move your application to a college offering a Clarendon-College Scholarship, even if this not your preferred college (if you have stated a preference).
There is no separate application process for Clarendon-College Scholarships: all Clarendon scholars-elect are automatically considered, unless you have ticked the box on the application form stating that you do not wish to have your college preference changed to take up a revised funding offer.
Clarendon Partnership awards are allocated as soon as possible after the Clarendon results are published and generally filled by June each year. If you are offered a Clarendon Partnership award, the University's Graduate Admissions and Funding Office (which oversees the Clarendon Scholarships) reserves the right to amend your funding offer letter in the light of these or any other scholarships you may subsequently be awarded.The overall value of your funding package will not be reduced as a result of any revisions; you are guaranteed funding at least at the level described in your original funding offer letter. Any amendments to your funding offer letter will be communicated to you in a variation letter, which is a brief explanation of any amendments to your original funding offer and acts in conjunction with your original funding offer letter.
Your college preference, or choice not to make a preference on the application form, will not affect your chances of either gaining admission to the University or winning a Clarendon Scholarship or then a Clarendon Partnership award.