• if you are a Gazan student looking to complete your studies, please refer to the links in the list below and email the relevant contacts directly. If you require support identifying suitable opportunities, you can request this by contacting: Mosaik Education via this form or the Gazan Student Support Network for support via this form. If you require help applying for a scholarship, plus support with visa/travel practicalities, you can contact the Gaza Scholarship Initiative for Displaced Students via this form (at the moment this form is closed but it may re-open again)
• If you are a Gazan academic looking for a fellowship, please refer to the section related to fellowships in the list below

Scholarships (f2f) specifically for Palestinian students (UK)​

• Palestine Community Foundation and British Council – list of scholarships​ via Chevening, Said Foundation, Oxford Brookes, Durham, St Andrews and more
• British Council’s HESPAL Programme  
• Palestinian Scholarship at Goldsmiths University of London
• Dr Maisara Alrayyes Scholarship at King's College London
• Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship at University of Leeds
• Scholarships for Palestine at University of Sussex
• Crisis Scholarship Scheme at Jesus College, Oxford
• Dima Alhaj Scholarship at University of Glasgow
• Durham Palestine Educational Trust Master's Scholarships
• St Andrews Education for Palestinian Students (STEPS) Scholarships
• Uni of Sheffield Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship
• Uni of Dundee Occupied Palestinian Territories search tool
• Salam Scholarships at Ulster University (for 5 Palestinian women per year)
• Scholarship for 5-year architecture programme at the Albukhary Foundation in London - these are also open to students from Palestine who can commit to the full 5 years. Fees and accommodation are all paid

• Connect Palestine's scholarships database
• Scholarships for Palestinians in Hungary
• Scholarships for Palestinians in Germany
• University of Padua (Italy) Students at Risk Scholarships
• Daughters for Life Foundation scholarships for women from Palestine and a few other countries in the Middle East to study in Europe/Canada
• Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship (for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs)
• Bseisu Foundation Scholarships
• Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) Scholarships -  the State of Palestine is a Member State of the Organisation of Southern Cooperation which is offering 400 scholarships for postgraduate study to all students who come from the Member States
• Amideast's Hope Fund - this is a scholarship fund for young Palestinians with leadership potential to pursue undergraduate degrees in the United States
• Education Above All - Qatar Scholarship Programme (Qatar)
• Palestinian Scholarship Initiative (Singapore)

Scholarships (f2f) open to UK asylum seekers (incl. Palestinian asylum seekers)

• here is a very comprehensive list of grants and scholarships open to refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK
• University of Manchester Article 26 Scholarship and also their Humanitarian Scholarship
• University of Liverpool Humanitarian Scholarships for Master's Programmes
• University of Leicester Sanctuary Scholarship
• University of Edinburgh's Education Beyond Borders Displaced Student Scholarships (Master's level)
• Kings College London Sanctuary Scholarship (Pathway 3) - these fully funded scholarships are for all levels of study, including the International Foundation year, and they are open to Palestinians with a range of immigration statuses
• University of York's Equal Access Scholarships (undergraduate and post-graduate)
• Many more UK Sanctuary Scholarships are available via the searchable Displaced Student Opportunities UK website

Scholarships (Distance Learning - open to Palestinians inside or outside UK)​

• University of Leicester ​
• University of London​
• New School of the Anthropocene

Online English language tutoring

• ELT Professionals for Palestine runs an online language tutoring programme where they match volunteer teachers to Palestinian adults to teach them English online. Please email Fatima at tutoringeltforpalestine@gmail.com for further information or to apply. If you are a student who is looking for English language tuition, please complete this form
• Al Manar Society (contact Gabriel at teacher@almanar-society.org) provide general English, IELTS preparation, professional skills training and conversation classes to students in Palestine and the West Bank
• If you are a Palestinian student looking for support with English language skills, or an English language teacher looking to volunteer or support in some other way, you might find the resources/links on this ELT4Palestine Padlet useful: https://padlet.com/alekspalanac/english-language-teaching-elt-for-palestine-8jg53wo2mi9mmf6j 

Fellowships

• Safe Haven Fellowships
• CARA fellowships (which are also available to Palestinian academics)
• Scholar Rescue Fund fellowships

Other educational initiatives (some current and some in the pipeline)​

• Emergency Committee for Universities in Gaza - this is a coalition of Gazan universities established in order to articulate the needs and priorities of Gazan universities
• Open letter from Gazan academics and university administrators to the world - this is an important call from Gazan universities to push back against any educational initiatives that are not developed in consultation with Gazan universities themselves, and which contribute to the scholasticide and erasure of agency and identity of the Gazan people
• Gaza Scholarship Initiative for Displaced Students - this network of volunteers is helping Gazan students apply for scholarships and gather the documentation they need in order to be able to take these scholarships up. Students can apply to be added to their list via this form. Organisations can contact the GSI team by emailing Aisha Mershani at amershani@gmail.com and/or Michelle Lerner at lernermichelle@aol.com
• Scholarships for Ghazza Mentors - if you are able to volunteer to mentor students from Gaza find and apply for a scholarship, please fill in this form
• Birzeit University's Rebuilding Hope initiative
• Academic Solidarity with Palestine -  ASP is gathering a team of professors able to teach Gaza students online, in English or Arabic. They are looking for faculty in all subjects. They are also looking for graduate students willing to act as TAs (academicsolidaritywithpalestine@proton.me /  @__aswp)
• Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Gaza -  a form to collate info about open ed. resources to support Gazan students to continue their studies
• Academics for Gaza  (A4G) has gathered an international network of volunteer scholars from diverse academic backgrounds to provide online tutoring sessions, seminars, and tailor-made lectures to the students of Gaza, addressing specific needs of students. See their Facebook page and/or email them for more info: academics4Gaza@gmail.com
• OxPal initiative to support Gazan medical students to complete their studies (Dr. Shameq Sayeed: shameq.sayeed@leicester.ac.uk)​
• Mentorship in reconstructuve plastic surgery via IDEALS charity - contact tim.goodacre@nds.ox.ac.uk 
• Twinning arrangements (via Cormack Consultancy Group)​
• Architects for Gaza are calling for the establishment of a Gaza Global University
• Gaza Educate Medics (GEM) - this is a scheme run by the PalMed Academy to enable Gazan medical students to complete their medical degrees (Mahmoud Loubani - loubani@gemedu.online)
• Campus France (an organisation facilitating study in France from a range of countries, including the Occupied Palestinian Territories)
• Article 26 Backpack - The Universal Human Rights Tool for Academic Mobility (a way for students to safely store and share information about their educational history with universities and other organisations)
• Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund - this organisation works with partner universities to fund scholarships for Palestinian students (currently in Canada, but soon also in the US and Europe), providing: matching with a supervisor, admission, funding guarantee, visa application, relocation, and psychosocial support
• Horizons Academy (a Palestinian organisation supporting Palestinian students to find scholarships)

Trauma and psycho-social support - training and resources

• Trauma-informed ESOL for Refugees by Aleks Palanac (self-access training, including videos, activities and reading material, taking between 1-4 hours to complete). Although the focus is nominally ESOL, this is applicable to anyone teaching refugee-background students who have experienced trauma. Scroll down to 'self-access training' to access this free resource
• Trauma Informed Practice training by Nicola Lester (free-self-access training and resources at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels)
• Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies webinar on Psycho-Social Support for Students in Gaza (held on 8/4/24) and Psycho-Social Support and Socio-Emotional Learning Toolbox

Other useful links / resources

Networks, information pages​ and toolkits

• Scholars for Palestine UK​
• Scholars Against the War on Palestine + Scholasticide Toolkit
• Rebuilding Hope: Birzeit University and HE in Gaza
• British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)
• UCU guide to scholarships for Palestinian students​
• UCU’s Ceasefire Now info page
• ELT Professionals for Palestine (LinkedIn, Facebook, Insta)
• Association of Student Activism for Palestine -  ASAP International Students Project: provides comprehensive support to international Palestinian students in the UK, assisting with accommodation, networking, and other essential needs. Requests for scholarships or funding are not currently in scope of this initiative
• The Bridge Directory - connecting Gazans to organisations which can provide support
• Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
• The Palestine Academy - learning resources about the situation in Palestine and guidelines about how to support the Palestinian cause through collective social media activism
• Workers in Palestine - an association of over 30 Palestinian Trades Unions and professional associations calling for an end to the genocide (including an end to all complicity in the genocide, occupation and apartheid)
• Verso's free e-books on Palestine, mass protests and student rebellions
• Dutch Scholars for Palestine
• Electronic Intifada - website and podcast

• Resilience in the Rubble: A Needs Assessment of Higher Education in the Gaza Strip - report by Swiss Peace (released Nov 2024)
• Towers of Ivory and Steel by Maya Wind - a book offering a comprehensive analysis of the role in which Israeli universities have played in perpetuating settler-colonialism, the occupation, apartheid, crimes against humanity and repeated violations of international law
• Our Universities Live On: Testimonials of Hope from Gaza - powerful video by Friends of Birzeit University (Fobzu), created in collaboration with students and academics in Gaza
• Protecting Higher Education from Attack in the Gaza Strip by Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout and Sultan Barakat
• Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water - report by Human Rights Watch (released Dec 2024)
• 'You Feel Like You Are Subhuman': Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza - Amnesty International's comprehensive report (released Dec 2024)
• Anatomy of a Genocide - Francesca Albanese's UN report (released April 2024)
• Compare: A Journal of International and Comparative Education - Special Collection on Palestine and Israel
• BAICE Compare Podcast episode entitled Between construction and destruction: the experience of educationalists at Gaza’s universities (interview with Palestinian academic Dr. Mona Jebril)
• Efforts to support Palestinian scientists struggle with the realities of war (article in Science by Amanda Heidt)

• recording of RefugEAP Network webinar on 'How can we provide accessible online English for Academic Purposes for students currently in Gaza?' (held on 6/11/24)
• recording of a session on How can UK universities support HE in Palestine? (as part of University of Leicester's Breaking Barriers Refugee Week 2024)
• recording of a talk by Dr Victoria Araj on Educide in Palestine (organised by The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice)
• recording of webinar organised by Scholars for Palestine UK entitled Confronting Genocide in Palestine: The Role of UK Scholars and Beyond
• recording of RefugEAP Network webinar on English for Academic Purposes Collaborations with Gazan Universities: Insights from the EAST Project (held on 25/4/24 with Dr Bill Guariento presenting)
• webinar to outline the Gaza Educate Medics (GEM) scheme (run by PalMed Academy and held on 9/3/24)
• Friends of Birzeit University's (Fobzu) Education-Occupation-Liberation series of event recordings of lectures and seminars, focusing on the challenges facing Palestinian education

• BDS Movement - the web page of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (supported by Jewish Voice for Peace), including information about the academic boycott of Israeli universities
• Palacademic campaign to extend the British Academy's Researchers at Risk scheme to Palestinian academics (and a template letter to urge your MP to support an Early Day Motion on this issue)
• petition to create a UK visa scheme for Palestinians fleeing the conflict (and an open letter template to write to MPs to support an Early Day Motion on this issue)
• Oxfam's petition for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip
• BRICUP's Academic Commitment for Palestine (open letter for academics to commit to an academic boycott)
• Accountability Archive -  this is a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists, for use by future historians (accountabilityarchive@proton.me)

• A useful list of initiatives/resources in various countries compiled by Comité pour la Liberté d'Expression Scientifique
• Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk (Canada based)
• Gazan Student Support Network (US based)