Scholarships at The University of Edinburgh

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The University of Edinburgh will offer 2 residential full-time Master's scholarships and 3 Master's scholarships for eligible distance learning Master's programmes offered by the University.
Scholarships will be available for students pursuing one of the following Global Health Academy programmes:
Residential Programmes

MSc Global Health and Public Policy
MSc Global Health and Anthropology
MSc Health Inequalities and Public Policy
MSc Health Systems and Public Policy
MSc Public Health Research
MSc Sociology and Anthropology of Health and Illness

Distance Learning Programmes

MSc Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health
MSc Clinical Education
MSc Emerging and Neglected Infectious Diseases
MSc Health Informatics
MSc Health Informatics Governance
MSc International Health: Non Communicable Diseases
MSc Surgical Sciences
MSc Translational Medicine

Each full-time residential scholarship will cover the overseas rate of tuition fee (maximum £15,450), while each distance learning scholarship will have a total value over the duration of the programme of £9,000 which will be deducted from the tuition fee for the entire part-time programme of study.

Eligibility
The scholarships will be awarded to students who are accepted for admission onto an eligible Global Health Academy programme at the University of Edinburgh. Applicants must be both nationals of and resident in the the following countries: Afghanistan, Madagascar, Angola, Malawi, Bangladesh, Maldives, Benin, Mali, Bhutan, Mauritania, Burkina, Faso Mozambique, Burundi, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal, Cape Verde Niger, Central African Republic Rwanda, Chad, Samoa, Comoros Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of the Congo Senegal, Djibouti Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea Solomon Islands, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Gambia, Timor-Leste, Guinea, Togo, Guinea, Bissau, Tuvalu, Haiti, Uganda, Kribati, United Republic of Tanzania, Lao People's Democratic Republic Vanuatu, Lesotho, Yemen, Liberia, Zambia.

Countries listed above are defined as least developed nations by the United Nations Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings.

Criteria
The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic merit. Candidates must have, or expect to obtain, a UK first class or 2:1 Honours degree at undergraduate level or the international equivalent.

Application Procedure
Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application (http://www.scholarships.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/online.cfm)
Applicants for the Distance Learning Scholarship are asked when completing the personal statement of the scholarship application form, to indicate why distance learning suits their particular circumstances making reference to both online learning and distance learning.

Completed application forms must be received by the Scholarships and Student Finance Office no later than 31 May.

Selection Procedure
A Selection Committee will meet in late June to select the scholarship holders. The winners of the scholarships will be announced by the end of June.
For more information, visit: http://www.scholarships.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/internat/globalhealthacademy.htm

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Sara Khin Maung Saw (Berlin)

U Khin Maung Saw, born in 1946 in Yamethin, Central Burma and grown up in Rangoon, is the third child among four of U Saw Maung and Daw Khin Khin. His parents were Arakanese (Rakhaings), Buddhists and government officers.

He went to St. John's Diocesan Boys' School in Rangoon, passed the Matriculation Examination in March 1961. He studied in the University of Rangoon in June 1961 and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1965. After receiving the first degree, he worked as a part-time tutor at Chemistry Department, Workers College of the University of Rangoon and later as a Research Assistant, the Industrial Development Corporation, Rangoon. He obtained the Diploma in German Language (Ordinary Level) in 1966 and Diploma (Advanced Level) in 1967 from the institute of Foreign Languages, Rangoon. He was selected as a Government State Scholar to the then German Democratic Republic in October, 1968, finished Master of Science (Chem, Engg) in October 1972. After that he went back to Burma and was appointed as the Head of Department , Quality Control, first in the People's Porcelain Factory in Tharrawaddy and later in the People's Glass factory in Thanlyin. In the mean time, he worked as part time lecturer at the Rangoon Institute of Technology. Later, he resigned from the government post and worked as a senior teacher at the International High School in Rangoon. In 1981 he was offered a job from the then G.D.R to work as a lecturer in the Burmese Department, Southeast Asian Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin. He worked there until 1994. After that, he worked as a Scholar in Residence, Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University, Ohio, U.S.A, from 1994 to 1996. There he wrote a paper "A Comparative Study between the Burmese and Indonesian Armies, from the National Liberation Army to the Ruling Class".

He had written many articles on Burma Studies, about Language, Literature, Culture, History and Politics.

Later, he was sent by the German Development Service to Asian and African countries. Now he is a pensioner.

1992, he officially changed his citizenship from Burmese to German according to the German Law on Immigrants.

He is married to a Filipina, Erlinda Saw nee Abad since 1984.

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