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GENERAL
The Foundation's Trustees:
• have absolute discretion in all matters to do with the Foundation
• reserve the right to vary or withdraw completely any support
provided
• will take the aspirations and wishes of both Applicants' and
potential Foundationers into account when reaching their decisions.
All support is
subject to a regular review of circumstances and is contingent upon
Foundationers' satisfactory academic and social progress
Applicants and
Foundationers have no right of appeal against any decisions taken by the
Foundation.
How
do we define 'Need'?
We look for 'need' in the following areas:-
• Domestic Circumstances
• Social Circumstances
• Health
• Finance
• Education
NB - Whatever the reason, a wish for fee-paying
education by itself is not accepted as a need.
Bearwood College
• We prefer to use Bearwood
College to provide
secondary education.
Support
• We decide the amount and type of support after a thorough
examination of your circumstances.
• We ask your parents to offset the costs of your educational costs
by making regular contributions whenever possible.
Are you already in fee-paying education?
• Our policy is to enable continuity within each educational stage.
What if your school doesn't meet your needs?
• You may change schools provided that the reasons for the change are
both sound and agreed by the Head Teacher of the original school and that
the change occurs at a natural educational breakpoint for example
immediately before the start of either GCSE or 'A'-level courses.
Parental Preferences
• We shall continue to listen to parental wishes for the education of
their children when reaching our decision.
Disposable
Assets
• We recognise that you may own disposable assets such as a house
which will be taken into account when assessing the level of support. Where
appropriate though, we expect your family to use their savings in support
of your education.
Further
Education
General - We may support you during a formal course which leads to either:-
• the award of an academic degree which starts within two years of
completion of your 'A'-level course or a career development qualification
• We will only support you for a first degree or one career
development course.
Careers at
Sea
• We give priority to those Foundationers pursuing a career at sea.
Existing Foundationers
• We may continue to support you during your first University degree
course.
New
Foundationers
• We may support you during your first University degree course.
Loans
• We may consider making conditional loans as and when Trustees see
fit.
Length of qualifying sea-service
• We require the eligible parent to have spent not less than five
years at sea but, in exceptional cases, we may consider applications from
those with shorter periods of sea-service.
Nationality
• We will only consider supporting you if you have British
Nationality.
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