King’s and CONICYT sign scholarship agreement

King's has signed one of the first UK agreements with Chilean scholarship provider CONICYT (The National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research) to provide discounted tuition fees for Chilean students. On Thursday 16 May, representatives from CONICYT met with Professor Vaughan Robinson, Director of the Graduate School, and Mark Chan Poon, International Marketing Manager, for the official signing of the scholarship agreement. Under this new agreement, students who are sponsored through CONICYT will receive a 15 per cent discount on the tuition fees of PhD programmes and a 10 per cent discount on master's programmes. Master's students will also receive a £500 one-off payment. CONICYT was founded in Chile in 2008, in response to the country's need for a more productive and creative workforce. The scholarship programme targets the academic, professional and technical sectors with the specific aim to create a workforce that has completed part of their education and training abroad. Since the start of the scholarship programme, CONICYT has funded 4,312 students for postgraduate courses, which includes master's programmes, PhD studies and Postdoctoral Fellowships.