{"id":639991,"date":"2025-12-18T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639991\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:55:20","slug":"university-of-manchester-receives-1-million-gift-to-fund-undergraduate-access-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639991\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Manchester receives $1 million gift to fund Undergraduate Access Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, former President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester, said: \u201cIt is a true privilege to have a scholarship carry my name &#8211; an honour I will always treasure. My heartfelt thanks go to the donors for their remarkable generosity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">\u201cI am delighted that this support will continue a long tradition here at Manchester: opening doors for talented students, enabling them to thrive and achieve their ambitions at Manchester.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/fees-and-funding\/scholarships-and-bursaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undergraduate Access Scholarships<\/a>\u00a0offer financial\u00a0assistance\u00a0to students who have experienced\u00a0difficulties and\u00a0are funded by alumni of the University and donors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">NAFUM is an independent foundation that supports the University\u2019s work, helping students from the US, Greater\u00a0Manchester\u00a0and the Global South to gain an education at\u00a0the University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Through generous support, US-based alumni have\u00a0helped the University to make strides tackling\u00a0a number of\u00a0global challenges,\u00a0including\u00a0inequality,\u00a0poverty\u00a0and cancer research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Donations from alumni of the University, no matter the size, fuels discoveries, real-world\u00a0impact\u00a0and student success.\u00a0By donating or volunteering, you can support\u00a0life-changing opportunities for students and help us tackle urgent global challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">To find out more about\u00a0making a donation\u00a0to the University,\u00a0please visit\u00a0the University\u2019s philanthropy page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/collaborate\/make-a-donation\/philanthropy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, former President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester, said: \u201cIt is a true&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[7778,197026,748,393,4884,13,2465,16,15,29191],"class_list":{"0":"post-639991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-alumni","9":"tag-alumni-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-university-of-manchester"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115739972329241712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}