Yearly Archives: 2014

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the country’s higher education institutions to open up to more foreign students and staff, as well as giving a ringing endorsement for study abroad initiatives, in a nationally televised speech marking the beginning of the academic year at the University of Tehran. President Rouhani, who studied at Glasgow Caledonian University, implored...

The Home Office has suspended accepting ETS tests as evidence of English language ability. This includes the Princeton TOEFL test (Test of English as a Foreign Language), and as a result the University of Cambridge will no longer be accepting TOEFL test scores as sufficient to meet the language entry requirements for Graduate study....

The OMID Trust's Board of Directors has met and selected the OMID scholar for the 2014/2015 academic year after consulting its partners, Cambridge Trust and St. Edmund's college. The interest in our scholarship was tremendous this year and we were very pleased to see so many excellent and high-calibre candidates apply and get through the...

The Cambridge University Persian Society yesterday hosted Prof Pesaran, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Cambridge. The OMID Trust also used this opportunity to introduce its activities to the attendees. ...

The application process for the Omid Cambridge Scholarship closed on 3 December 2013. Please visit our How to Apply page for further information on how to apply for the scholarship during the academic year 2015/16...