A SCOTTISH university has opened a scholarship scheme for a Palestinian national who has been forced to flee the State of Palestine due to “humanitarian reasons”.

People can now apply to the Dima Alhaj Scholarship on the University of Glasgow’s website, which will offer a number of benefits for the successful student.

The website says: “The University of Glasgow is offering the Dima Alhaj Scholarship to a Palestinian national who has been forced to leave the State of Palestine for humanitarian reasons.

“The chosen applicant may be domiciled in any country but must be a Palestinian national.

"The scholarship is open to prospective undergraduate and postgraduate taught applicants to the University of Glasgow applying for entry in September 2025.”

The university states that the successful applicant will receive the following:

  • Full tuition fee waiver for the duration of study
  • £5000 per year towards study/living costs
  • University of Glasgow accommodation for the duration of study

Anyone wishing to apply must do so by August 31. Applications are open now and available HERE.

A decision will be communicated to all applicants by September 6, the university has said.

According to figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, more than 39,000 people have been killed since Israel’s bombardment started.

Israel currently stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

Earlier this year, Palestinian surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was elected to be rector of the University of Glasgow, winning more than 80% of the first-preference votes.

Glasgow University rector Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah (Image: Hussein Malla/AP)

Abu-Sittah – an alumnus of Glasgow University and a world-leading expert on war-injured patients and children – said he felt a “sense of obligation towards a place which was extremely formative in my life” after students asked him to enter the race.

In his speech after being elected, the rector said: "We will campaign for divestment from arms manufacturing and the fossil fuel industry in this university, both to de-risk the university following the International Court of Justice’s ruling that this is plausibly a genocidal war and the current case brought against Germany by Nicaragua for complicity in genocide.

"Genocidal blood money made as a profit from these shares during the war will be used to set up a fund to help rebuild Palestinian academic institutions. This fund will be in the name of Dima Alhaj and in memory of a life cut short by this genocide."