Bursaries
The Highlands and Islands Educational Trust offers bursaries to students from the Highlands and Islands who are due to start University that year. Our standard bursary is awarded once a year for a maximum of four years. On top of this bursary we also award three additional prizes for outstanding candidates.
Available Bursaries and Prizes
HIET Bursary
The Highlands and Islands Educational Trust Bursary is an award of £200 per annum for up to four years of University.
The Roderick Macleod Prize for Gaelic
The Roderick Macleod Prize for Gaelic is a one off prize of £200 awarded to the applicant with either the highest Gaelic qualification or the greatest number of Gaelic accolades.
The John Raining Prize for most Outstanding Candidate
Based on acedemic merit the John Raining Prize is given to the most outstanding candidate that year. The prize is an additional £150 per annum on top of the HIET bursary.
The Gaelic Prize
The Gaelic prize is an additional £200 per annum awarded to the highest achieving applicant who will be going on to study Gaelic at University.
How Recipients are Chosen
The bursaries are given out based on academic merit. Each year we choose around twelve candidates to receive a bursary from the Highlands and Islands Educational Trust. In the application we ask you to provide your 5th year results and state that we will be in touch with your school to find out your 6th year results. We use the UCAS points scoring system to rank students based on their results and the top twelve are chosen.
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