• New College of the Humanities launches new academic scholarship offering Greek students opportunity to study at world-leading college in London
• Scholarship will provide subsidy to study at NCH, ranging from £2,000 to £9,000 annually
New College of the Humanities (NCH) is delighted to announce the creation of a new scholarship enabling academically gifted students from Greece to study at the award-winning university-level college based in London.
The Professor Adrian Zuckerman Scholarship is open to students applying to study Law for their first undergraduate degree at NCH, who are either Greek by nationality, or who have attended school in Greece for the duration of their Year 12 and Year 13 studies.
This new scholarship provides a significant subsidy towards the College’s annual tuition fees, ranging from £2,000 to £9,000 towards the annual fees, and is awarded for the full three-year programme of studies. Students who are awarded the Scholarship, which recognises academic excellence and the potential to excel in the study of Law, will have the opportunity to be taught by Professor Adrian Zuckerman, and to meet and debate with one of the world’s foremost scholars in law.
The announcement of this major new scholarship is testament to NCH’s commitment to opening up access to the leading-edge College, and to further increasing the diversity of the student body.
In 2015, NCH was awarded best ‘Course & Lecturers’ at the Whatuni Student Choice Awards, and came fourth in the overall ‘University of the Year’ category.
In September 2015, the College’s first graduates achieved final degree results that surpassed the UK average, with approximately 30% securing a 1st class degree in a humanities subject and 88% attaining a 2.1 degree or above.
ABOUT PROFESSOR ADRIAN ZUCKERMAN
Professor Adrian Zuckerman is Visiting Professor of Law at NCH and Professor of Civil Procedure at Oxford University, positions he combines with teaching the LLM Civil and Public Litigation course for University College London and King’s College London.
Professor Zuckerman is a leading scholar on...
Civil Litigation and the Administration of Justice. His book, Zuckerman on Civil Procedure, is the leading scholarly work on the subject and is regularly cited in the higher courts in this country and abroad.
He contributed to Lord Woolf’s Inquiry into Access to Justice (1995), and to Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs (2010). He campaigns for improving access
to court and making justice available to all at proportionate cost.
Adrian is the editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly, the main journal dedicated to the administration of civil justice. His work on criminal evidence achieved a breakthrough in evidence scholarship. University.
ABOUT NEW COLLEGE OF THE HUMANITIES (NCH)
www.nchlondon.ac.uk
www.nchlondon.ac.uk
Based in the heart of London, New College of the Humanities offers a unique, liberal arts-inspired undergraduate curriculum taught by inspirational academics through one-to-one tutorials and other small group teaching.
The College’s undergraduates study a combined honours degree in subjects including Economics, English, History, Law, Philosophy, and Politics & International Relations, in addition to the College’s liberal arts diploma. The NCH Diploma offers a rich mix of Core Courses including Applied Ethics, Logic & Critical Thinking and Science Literacy, as well as the Professional Development Programme, which teaches students the skills and behaviours they need to succeed in the increasingly competitive graduate recruitment market.
NCH’s world-class professoriate includes luminaries such as Professor AC Grayling, Professor Simon Blackburn, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Professor Richard Dawkins, Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Daniel C Dennett,
Professor Lawrence Krauss, Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, Professor Adrian Zuckerman and Professor Steven Pinker,
all of whom teach and contribute to the creation and development of the curriculum at the College.
Since its establishment in 2011, NCH has developed a reputation for delivering an unrivalled university experience. In 2014, 63% of its students — more than twice the comparative statistic for Russell Group university students studying the humanities — stated that the NCH academic experience exceeded their expectations (HEPI, 2014). In 2015, NCH was awarded best ‘Course & Lecturers’ at the Whatuni? Student Choice Awards, and came fourth in the overall ‘University of the Year’ category.
In September 2015, the College’s first graduates achieved final degree results that surpassed the national average, with
approximately 30% securing a 1st class degree in a humanities subject and 88% attaining a 2.1 degree or above.*
Destinations included Clifford Chance, Lambert Smith Hampton, Belarus Free Theatre, Hogan Lovells, Deloitte, Porsche, Diageo and the British Council. Others progressed to postgraduate study at top universities including the University of Oxford, SOAS, UCL, and LSE.
* In 2014, 20% of students across the UK secured a 1st class degree, with 72% achieving a 2.1 or above (HESA).
