 Although the BSO has recently secured
government funding through a partnership with the University
of Bedfordshire, relieving the financial burden of tuition
fees for our students, the School does not have direct
access to HEFCE institutional enhancement grants, and
does not receive direct NHS funding for the healthcare
services provided. A high percentage of our students
are not eligible for maintenance grants or student loans
and many suffer financial hardship as a result of having
to pay the full costs of the course. As a result, many
are forced to spend valuable study time - on what is
a very demanding course - in paid employment. Some are
unable to complete their studies; many more highly skilled
students are deterred from applying.
The proposed new Government Equivalent Learning Qualification
In September 2007, the Government instructed the Higher
Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to withdraw
institutional funding for ELQ students - those studying
for an equivalent or lower level qualification. This
means that any student coming to the BSO to study an
osteopathy degree who already has a degree that is deemed
to be ‘higher’, will not be able to get
any funding for their degree. Since many of our students
are classified as ELQ, affording to study at the BSO
will be a challenge for students in the future.
Bursary provision is essential to reduce these problems,
and make osteopathic training more accessible, and so
helping to meet the growing demand for osteopathic treatment
For further information please contact: Anna Somerset,
Head of Fundraising, The British School of Osteopathy,
275 Borough High Street , London, SE1 1JE (a.somerset@bso.ac.uk
or 020 7089 5336)
 Dr
Sven Svenson bursary
Internationally renowned prima ballet dancer Dame
Beryl Grey DBE is a Vice Patron of the BSO. Her late
husband Dr Sven Svenson was a BSO graduate and an internationally
respected osteopath, who died in 2008 aged 100. Cecil
Beaton, Lester Piggott, Bob Hope, Elizabeth Taylor,
Danny Kaye, Ivor Novello and Charlton Heston were among
the stars who consulted him.
Dame Beryl donated a painting he gave her – Robert
Gibb RSA’s majestic 1883 work, The Last Voyage
of the Viking – which was auctioned at Christie’s
in London on 11 December 2008.
Dame Beryl has created a BSO student bursary
scheme in her husband’s name with the proceeds.
This is for talented but financially challenged final
year BSO students. The Last Voyage of the Viking raised £9,000
at auction, but the total raised was boosted to £10,000
when a friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, graciously
donated a further £1,000.
“Because this painting and the British School
of Osteopathy were both so important to my husband
I feel that selling this to help future osteopaths
is the right thing to do,” says Dame Beryl.
• For more information about the BSO’s
Fundraising Appeal, contact Anna Somerset, Head of Fundraising
on 020 7089 5336 or click here
to email the Fundraising department
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