{"id":20910,"date":"2018-11-27T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20910"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:15:43","slug":"rtpi-scotland-future-planning-bursary-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20910","title":{"rendered":"RTPI Scotland: Future Planning Bursary Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RTPI_Scotland_website_231118.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20875\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RTPI_Scotland_website_231118.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>RTPI Scotland is pleased to announce that the Scottish Government and the universities of Heriot-Watt and Dundee will be funding \u00a31000 bursaries to study planning at Masters level.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RTPI Scotland writes:<\/p>\n<p>The bursaries are provided through the RTPI\u2019s Future Planners Bursary Scheme. The bursaries are designed to encourage more students, particularly from related subjects such as law and geography, to study planning at Masters level.<\/p>\n<p>Students starting on RTPI fully accredited Masters in 2015 may be eligible for a bursary if they have a first or upper second degree at undergraduate level in any discipline and demonstrate an interest in planning and a career in planning.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Ewen, Convener of RTPI Scotland said: \u2018I am delighted that the Scottish Government have decided to fund two bursaries through the RTPI\u2019s new Future Planners Bursary Scheme. By working together we are helping to attract talent into the planning profession to ensure we have enough qualified, dynamic planners to help shape Scotland\u2019s future.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Alex Neil MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners\u2019 Rights said: \u2018The Scottish Government is pleased to be able to support this positive scheme.\u00a0 The planning profession has much to contribute to achieving a fairer, wealthier and healthier Scotland and it is critical that today\u2019s students are supported to become tomorrow\u2019s planners.\u00a0 We welcome the RTPI\u2019s efforts to ensure the future vitality and diversity of the profession.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the scheme contact the\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:education@rtpi.org.uk\">RTPI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To apply for a bursary contact the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/education-and-careers\/become-a-planner\/future-planners-bursary\/\">relevant university<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtpiscotland.blog\/2015\/07\/24\/future-planning-bursary-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTPI Scotland is pleased to announce that the Scottish Government and the universities of Heriot-Watt and Dundee will be funding \u00a31000 bursaries to study planning at Masters level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20911,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20910\/revisions\/20911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}