What is B-Less?
The Open Door for Graduates
The number of graduate students in UK Universities is growing rapidly, with over 100,000 more graduates beginning programmes each year compared to 2019-20. Simply by virtue of their position as postgraduates in the same institutions as their undergraduate contemporaries, they carry a natural credibility as advocates for the gospel, and have conceptual and physical access to the same conversations and contexts as undergraduates. Yet, more often than not, graduates fail to take advantage of these opportunities.
Graduate and undergraduate communities typically run on parallel but separate tracks, occupying the same buildings but participating in different events. Masters and doctoral students are tied to aggressive deadlines and constrained funding mechanisms which force them to give every available hour to research.
But these conventions can be challenged.
Graduates investing in Undergraduates
Working within the same academic faculties, and engaging with the same academic conversations, graduate students have the perfect platform for encouraging younger Christians and catalysing meaningful conversations about the gospel. Over the course of degrees lasting two to four years, graduate students can form meaningful relationships that last and develop over time.
B-Less seeks to train and deploy graduate students to make the most of their present ministry usefulness and opportunities. By providing a scholarship, B-Less equips graduate students with the time and resources to support and strengthen the work of Christian Unions, local churches, and individual undergraduate Christians.