Newcastle University has launched a new bursary scheme that will offer people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds the chance to have the cost of their part I architecture studies fully met.

The university said two bursaries named in honour of Stephen Lawrence would be available to students who apply to study architecture from September 2020 via the normal UCAS process.

Newcastle joins City, Sheffield and De Montfort universities in offering bursaries to architecture students from Bame backgrounds in memory of Stephen, who dreamed of becoming an architect before his murder in 1993.

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