Programs

A living-costs scholarship of £9,000 to £21,525 for Scottish widening participation students holding a University of Stirling offer; the next round is awaiting funding confirmation.

• S6
• Cost not published

Belfast's senior youth symphony orchestra, run by the Education Authority Music Service, recruits post-primary musicians at Grade 6 or above by audition each May for a September start.

• Year 11–14 (NI)
• Fee: £257.99

Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR offers school-topper, merit, JEE/UCEED, need-based, sports, women-in-BTech, Vice-Chancellor and armed-forces-dependent scholarships to students joining its undergraduate programmes; UG registrations for 2027 are open.

• Grade 12
• No fee

BITS Pilani gives merit and merit-cum-need tuition waivers of 10% to 100% to about 25% of its First Degree students, and a full four-year tuition scholarship to the top 500 BITSAT rankers with family income up to Rs 20 lakh. The page describes the BITSAT-2026 cycle.

• Grade 12
• No fee

Week-long in-person engineering summer programs at McMaster University for students entering Grades 9 to 12, with advanced labs and a design challenge.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A Government of Maharashtra merit scholarship of Rs 300 a month for Scheduled Caste students who scored 75% or more in Class 10 and study in Class 11 and 12, paid in addition to the central scholarship. AY 2026-27 applications are via MahaDBT 2.0.

• Grades 11–12
• No fee

A two-, four- or six-week paid summer work experience for Charlotte high-school students ages 16–18, with at least 25 hours a week at a minimum of $13 per hour.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee

A City of Stockton summer jobs program giving about 100 Stockton youth aged 16–19 a five-week paid work experience in city departments.

• Up to grade 12
• No fee

Samsung India's innovation competition, run with IIT Delhi's FITT, for young people aged 14-22 who propose solutions to real-world problems in four themes. The 2027 edition has not been announced yet.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

A weekly £40 Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 18 year olds from lower-income households in Wales who stay on at school or college. Applications for 2026 to 2027 are open and accepted until 31 August 2027.

• Year 12–13
• Cost not published

A two-stage national mathematics talent contest run from Chennai by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India, with separate contests for Classes 9-10 (Bhaskara) and 11-12 (Ramanujan); about 10% of screening-level candidates reach the final.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: ₹150

A democracy-education programme of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) in which selected senior-high students act as legislators in Jakarta. The 2027 intake is not yet announced.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee