The scholarship recipient must be enrolled as a full-time student for the entire length of the programme that the student registered for at the time the scholarship was awarded, register for all courses according to the Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (“University”) schedule, pass each registered course at the first attempt and complete the programme within the original time frame as stated in the offer letter and adhere to the terms and conditions as set out herein.
Scholarships are awarded in the form of a tuition fee waiver only. “Tuition fee” does not cover any other charges or fees such as registration fee, international student fees, resitting of examination fee, extension of studies fee and ancillary items required as part of the studies, including but not limited to books, graduation ceremony, final award/certificate, accommodation, student visa processing, sports, and living and other related costs, which shall be borne by the student.
The value of the scholarship granted will be deducted against the full tuition fees payable on a semester-by-semester basis.
Scholarship is not exchangeable for cash or other alternatives or transferable to other intake, programme or campuses.
The scholarship recipient shall not hold (concurrently) any other full scholarship from external parties. This excludes EPF withdrawals or loans from external financial agencies.
Other discounts, waiver or scholarship provided by the University will not apply during the tenure of the scholarship.
The scholarship recipient shall be a student ambassador for the University and contributing a minimum of ten (10) ambassador hours in the first year of studies.
The scholarship recipient is required to comply with all the University terms and conditions of admittance, regulations and policies.
The University reserves the right to involve scholarship recipients in interviews, advertisements, photography or other publicity activities for the purpose of promoting the University or any other purpose deemed fit by the University. The scholarship recipient assigns to the University any intellectual property or other rights that are created as part of this role. The scholarship recipient shall also provide the necessary consent to the University to use the personal data of the scholarship recipient for the activities as stated herain. “Personal data” shall be as defined in the Malaysia Personal Data Protection Act 2010, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (EU GDPR) in so far as it remains applicable, and any other corresponding or equivalent national laws or regulations on in force and applicable.
The University reserves the absolute discretion and right to make any amendments to the terms and conditions of the scholarships as reflected herein including but not limited to the structure of the scholarship award, and the scholarship recipients shall be bound by the updated terms and conditions which is available on the University’s website.
The University reserves the right to revoke the scholarship offered or awarded to students at their absolute discretion at any time. This includes when scholarship recipient discontinues studies (withdrawal from programme) for any reason whatsoever or if, scholarship recipients are found guilty of academic or disciplinary misconduct, or if the scholarship recipients fail to fulfil the requirements in the Student Ambassador Programme (including ambassador hours) stipulated in Paragraph 9 above.
All scholarships are awarded at point of entry to a foundation or undergraduate or postgraduate programme, whichever applicable. Point of entry refers to Semester 1 of a foundation programme or Semester 1 in Year 1 of an undergraduate or postgraduate programme. Scholarships for students who enrol with advance entry will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Unless otherwise stated, all scholarship recipients must achieve a minimum of Grade A (i.e., 70% average score) at first attempt in the academic year and the entire duration of study, failing which, the scholarship will be revoked with immediate effect and there shall be no continuation nor reinstatement thereafter.
Forecast results may be considered for the scholarship application, if official results are not available at the time of scholarship application, and the scholarship may be awarded conditionally based on the forecast results. The official results must be provided to the University’s Admissions Office within one week of the official results release date, failing which, the University reserves the right to revoke the conditional award of the scholarship.
The official results must be equal to or better than the forecast results submitted for the scholarship application, failing which, the University reserves the right to revoke the conditional award of the scholarship or reduce the amount of the tuition fee waiver to be applied.
The decisions made by the University are final, and there are no avenues, processes or procedures for appeal.

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