Each year the top A-level and Foundation students at Kings can win valuable scholarships to help support them during their university careers.
All Kings academic students are eligible for these awards, which are given each year in memory or celebration of a different person or event.
Be your best
At Kings we reward excellence and commitment. We want our students to reach higher than other students. We want our students to be the best they can be. These scholarships are in recognition of student effort and achievement.
How winners are chosen
The Kings Scholarships are awarded across three categories:
1. A-level student
Awarded to the student achieving the best overall result in AS and A2 examinations.
2. Foundation student
Awarded to student with the best overall result in the Advanced Level Foundation Diploma.
3. Most Improved student
Discretionary award given to the student deemed to be the most improved during their academic year.
Award value and payment
The scholarships, which are worth £6,000, are paid in three installments annually at the start of each university year. Students are free to use the money as they wish.
Awarding body
The scholarships are awarded by Kings and at the discretion of the Principal of each college on the recommendation of an independent Advisory Board for the Kings Scholarships. Members of the Board are distinguished educators drawn from further and higher education and have no other connection with Kings.
Awards are given across all three colleges.
Pride in our winners
Being extremely proud of our Scholarship students, we invite winners to act as ambassadors for Kings.
This interesting ongoing role may mean attending events with current students, appearing at overseas fairs in their own countries, writing blogs, being interviewed or appearing in Kings publicity materials.
History of the Kings Scholarship
The Kings Scholarship was originally conceived to commemorate Steve Jones, who was the Director of Studies and an inspirational teacher of Economics and Politics at Kings Oxford, until his untimely death in 2006.
