Jaguar Land Rover wants to give one female student £1000 a year

Launched in 2013, the Scholarship is open to those embarking on or currently undertaking an engineering, maths or physics degree course or apprenticeship in the UK this year.

The funding programme aims to boost female participation in these disciplines, with the winners receiving £1,000 per year for their studies (for up to three years), professional mentoring to support their path into engineering, and the opportunity to gain valuable work experience at Jaguar Land Rover.

Nicci Cook, Jaguar Land Rover senior HR manager, sits on the panel that decides who is awarded a scholarship. She took a call from The Student Engineer to tell us all about it.

The Scholarship sounds like a remarkable opportunity for a young women looking to get a foothold in engineering. What is the selection process like?

We have an application process and part of that process is that we ask them a couple of questions, such as: “how would you encourage young women to take up engineering as a career option?” or “how would you encourage more young women to enter into STEM subjects?”