University College is pleased to announce the Dr Andrei Klein Czech Scholarship. The Scholarship has been generously funded by Dr Pavel Klein, a neurologist in Maryland, US, and named in memory of his late father. It will support the brightest and most creative students who are ordinarily resident in the Czech Republic, who aspire to study at University College of the University of Oxford.

Dr Klein came up to University College to study Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology in 1974. His exposure to the rich cultural and intellectual life at Oxford had a profound, positive effect on him, something from which he hopes the new Dr Andrei Klein Scholars will also benefit.

“Working and living together with those from different backgrounds, with different academic disciplines and different extracurricular interests and activities in the intimate college environment offers students an unparalleled educational experience,” Dr Klein said. “My aim is that the Dr Andrei Klein Scholars leave University College enriched by all that Oxford and Univ have to offer. The intellectual stimulation and learning, the tutorials, the extracurricular activities – drama, music, the nightlong discussions, the life-long friendships, all set in the extraordinary physical beauty of Oxford. I owe a large debt to my father and I hope that the Scholarship will keep his memory alive by offering to others what he was unable to experience himself. I feel very lucky in having been able to spend my formative years at University College and Oxford. Going there changed my life; I hope the scholarship will allow others to have a similarly rich experience.”

The Dr Andrei Klein Czech Scholarship is currently open to new applications from students ordinarily resident in the Czech Republic who demonstrate exceptional academic merit and/or potential. The Scholarship will provide financial assistance for one student per year in to support the cost to live and study in Oxford, approximately £9,000 per year.

To find out more about the Dr Andrei Klein Czech Scholarship please contact: Bruce Forman, Admissions Manager, University College, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BH or bruce.forman@univ.ox.ac.uk.