For the last 10 years the University of Sheffield has offered an annual taught postgraduate scholarship to a student from Gaza. Since 2013, the University has offered tuition, accommodation and a small maintenance grant.
Despite this legacy, the University has not made any public statements about the welfare and wellbeing of any current or past Gazan students.
As a result of this, on the 7th February 2024, a group of 27 Students Union sabbatical officers – who are elected to represent students – published an open letter to the University’s senior leadership sharing their profound concern and dismay due to the absence of a public statement or evident action to support Palestinians who have graduated from, or are studying at the University.
The University of Sheffield has not replied to this request despite the continuing Israeli attacks on every university in Gaza, and the killing of over 80 professors and academics.
The University must support its students and alumni, and respond to the open letter.
Call for Alumni to send a letter
If you are or have been part of the University of Sheffield, please email their alumni department using our template letter.
Despite providing an annual scholarship to a student from Gaza since 2013, the University had been silent – it has not responded to the open letter sent in Feb ‘24 by over 25 former and current Student Union Sabbatical Officers, who requested confirmation of the support available for Palestinian students and alumni.
Insist that the University make: a public statement on its support for Gazan students and alumni!
More information about attacks on the right to education in Gaza
https://scholarsagainsthewar.org
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108
https://palestine.un.org/en/258658-un-agencies-end-conflict-imperative-return-learning-palestine