AI and Data Science Postgraduate OfS Scholarship

BY ACCEPTING THE OFFER OF THE SCHOLARSHIP, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Please read them carefully and keep a copy for your records.

The University may withdraw the scholarship in the following circumstances and the implications are set out below:

• You are subsequently found to be ineligible for the scholarships or if these terms and conditions are not met in full. Your scholarship will be cancelled and you will be required to repay the scholarship in full/full tuition fees will be due.
• You suspend your programme, withdraw from your course or are withdrawn by us. All scholarships require satisfactory progress on your course. You will not be eligible for the full scholarship if you do not complete the full course, which results in a fee reduction. If you withdraw, suspend or exit with a lesser award the Regulations for the Payment of University Fees confirm that the discount/scholarships will be pro-rated if tuition fees are reduced. In this circumstance, the value of the scholarship will be pro-rated in proportion to the tuition fees charged on your eligible course.
• You do not pay outstanding tuition fees when due to us.
• You make a change to your course. If you intend to make any change to your course please check with the university what impact this will have on your scholarship. If you transfer courses or change your study mode you will no longer be eligible for the scholarship. In these circumstances, the value of the scholarship will be pro-rated in proportion to the tuition fees charged on eligible course(s).
• You do not meet all conditions attached to your offer of a place at the University.
• You fail to meet the key student requirements or any of these scholarship terms and conditions. Your scholarship will be cancelled and you may be required to repay the scholarship in full/full tuition fees will be due.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The university reserves the right to amend its scholarship provision without notice.

A scholarship offer must be accepted by the given deadline. Where an offer of a scholarship is not accepted by the given deadline it is automatically revoked unless otherwise agreed with the university.

Scholarships may not be deferred to the next academic year.

All students are required to comply with the University’s Terms and Conditions applicable to the provision of the University’s Educational Services (and the regulations, policies and procedures referred to within), as provided to applicants with their university offer letter and as updated from time to time.

There is no cash alternative to the scholarship award and awards are not transferable.

Where appropriate, personal information will be sent to the external provider via email, with the documentation encrypted and password protected. The password will be provided via a separate means, for example, via telephone.

For further detail, please see the Regulations for the Payment of University Fees.

The scholarship terms and conditions will continue even if you are no longer registered as a university student. For example, the conditions related to repayment of scholarship award or any obligations you agreed to undertake following completion of your course will still apply.

These terms and conditions do not constitute a relationship between us of partnership, joint venture, principal or agent. They are between you and us and no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of their terms.

These terms and conditions will be governed by the laws of England and Wales and we both submit to the Courts of England Wales.

Any dispute or complaint arising in connection with the scholarship should be addressed in writing in the first instance to computing-courses@mmu.ac.uk.

Privacy Notice

This privacy notice explains who we are, how and why we collect and use personal information about you, what personal data is collected and held about you for the  scholarship, our purposes and lawful bases for processing, who we share your personal data with, relevant retention periods, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

This notice provides information that is in addition to information contained in the university’s general scholarship privacy notice (Privacy Notice for Student Scholarships). Please do read this notice to understand our practices and if you have any questions please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Who we are and what we do with your information

The university is the Controller in respect of the personal data you provide as part of your application onto the scholarship.

The university is registered as a Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). We manage personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the university’s data protection policy.

In order for Manchester Met to consider you for this scholarship, your application (if applicable) will be considered for eligibility onto the scheme. All eligible students will receive an email confirmation if they are eligible for the scholarship, which includes the scholarship terms and conditions. Students who do not want to accept the scholarships terms and condition should email Manchester Met and reject the scholarship. Externally funded scholarships work in the following way:

• Students who meet the scholarship terms and conditions will need to apply via the online form to be considered for these scholarships, after researching on the scholarships website which scholarship they would like to apply for.
• Applications are assessed by the appropriate scholarship panel which consists of staff from both Manchester Met and, if applicable, by Coventry University and eligibility considered by further review of the student’s University application (at which point, students are contacted after the deadline date with an update).
• Unsuccessful students will also be contacted by a panel member via email. Application data for unsuccessful students will be deleted within a month after the deadline date.

The personal data we process

For this scholarship, we collect and process certain data about you, including information of a sensitive nature. This includes information detailed in your application for the scholarship.

If you contact us, we may also keep a record of that correspondence.

The purpose of the processing

What is the use of personal data?

Information within your university application form and scholarship application email in order to apply for the scholarship.

What is the lawful basis?

Necessary for the performance of a contract (Article 6(1)(b)).

The recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data

We will disclose personal data about you to the following third parties:

• Coventry University, anonymised scholarship scores
• Student Billings, Admissions, Programme Lead or Panel Members

The right to withdraw consent

If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. You can withdraw your consent by writing to computing-courses@mmu.ac.uk stating your name, your student ID number and in the e-mail subject state: ‘Withdrawal of consent’.

Data Retention

Your personal data will only be retained for as long as it is necessary in accordance with the University’s Retention and Disposal Schedule. 

Your rights in respect of the processing

The GDPR provides data subjects with the following data subject rights:

• The right to be informed – this privacy notice assists with fulfilling these obligations
• The right of access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object

Please note, that these rights apply in certain circumstances, for example according to the lawful basis utilised by the University. The right of access to personal information held about you exists in order to be aware of, and verify, the lawfulness of the processing. Please use the contact information below to exercise these rights.

Contacting us

For questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our use of your personal information, please contact computing-courses@mmu.ac.uk in the first instance.

Our Data Protection Officer can also be contacted using dataprotection@mmu.ac.uk, by calling 0161 247 3884 or in writing to: Data Protection Officer, Legal Services, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15 6BH.

Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as the supervisory authority in respect of the processing of your personal data. We would encourage you to expend our internal complaints procedure through our initial contact and the University Data Protection Officer, prior to contacting the ICO.

You can contact 0303 123 1113 or casework@ico.org.uk. Go to further contact information.

Update to this privacy notice

We may update this privacy notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our privacy notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.