The Guild awards three bursaries each year at City University to students already enrolled on one of the three MSc courses as detailed in the following article.

More than ten years age the guild's Education and Training Committee, and other members of the Guild led by Captain John Mason, set about addressing the concers held about the qualifications needed by professionals to improve their contribution to the management of airlines.  Particularly, they identified a needs in areas such as Air Safety Management and Air Transport Management.

As a result of their initiative, the City University, in conjunction with the Guild, set up within the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Faculty, a Master of Science Degree in Air Transport Management, later followed a degree in Air Safety Management, and then in 2008, a degree in Air Maintenance Management.

The objective is to maintain an acceptable level of safety within the greater commercial competition and increase in passangers which now exists.  All three programmes provide candidates with a body of knowledge and personal research which will enhance the commercial progess and safety management of air transport.

The typical student on these courses will have a number of years of experience in their particular field of aeronautical expertise.  The courses have been tremendously successful both with students worldwide as well as from the UK.  Graduates have moved to position of responsibilility in air safety and air transport management with aviation authorities, within the military, in national and other airlines throughout the world.

All this has been achieved by the hard work of a relatively small faculty of permenant staff based within the City University notably Professor Roger Wootton and Dr Steve Bond.  The course benfits from the expert input of visiting lecturers, a fair number of which are members of the Guild.

Since their inception, the courses have been endorsed and supported by the Guild.  Until recently, the Guild provided a single bursary of £2,500 to assist a student who had no other means of support, this was increased recently to two, and from this 2009, three bursaries will be available, one for each of the three MSc courses.

We can proudly point to a number of extremely successful professionals around the world who have received support through the Guild bursaries.  Peter Baske, working with Mission Aviation Fellowship, who now spends his day flying and maintaining his aircraft while carring out humanitarian relief operations.  Determined to improve the quality of service delivered by civilian humanitarian relief organisations, at his own expense he undertook the course leading to the MSc in Air Safety Management.  His final dissertation "Assisting Air Transport in Developing Countries" has been so well received by the examiners, that they are recommending that it be published.

The Master Elect, Dr Michael Fopp, and Liveryman Alan Foster have been the liaison officers between the Guild and the University for the past four years, but Dr Fopp has now handed over his role to Professor Diana Green, an Assistant on the Court, who is now the principal liaison officer.