Part 60: Basant Kumar and Sarala Biria Graduate Scholarship Fund
Part of the Schedules section of the Statutes of the University of Oxford
Approved with effect from 30 May 2012 (Gazette, Vol. 142, p. 588, 14 June 2012)
60.1. The benefaction from Birla International Limited of eight hundred and fifty one thousand pounds (£851,000), together with any further donations for this purpose, shall be known as the Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla Graduate Scholarship Fund for the Support of Graduate Study in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
60.2. The University shall retain all of the Fund as permanent endowment and shall apply the net income of the Fund towards the Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla Graduate Scholarship in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
60.3. The administration of the Fund, and the application of its income, shall be the responsibility of the Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
60.4. The Scholarships shall be open to students from any country of residence who are undertaking graduate study or research in the Faculty of Linguistics, Phonetics and Philology.
60.5. The Fund may be used to provide one or more Scholarships in any year. Each Scholarship may provide full funding for the standard duration of the student's course (typically three years in the case of doctoral students), or may provide partial funding.
