Deadline: 20 December, 2021
Applications are now open for the 2022 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships.
Funded by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Commonwealth Shared Scholarships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development.
Benefits
- Airfare to and from the United Kingdom
- Tuition
- Stipend (living allowance) at the rate of £1,133 per month or £1,390 per month for those at universities in the London metropolitan area
- Warm clothing allowance (where applicable )
- Thesis grant towards the cost of preparing a thesis or dissertation (where applicable)
- Study travel grant towards the cost of study-related travel within the United Kingdom or overseas
- Reimbursement of the cost of a mandatory tuberculosis (TB) test (where required for a visa application)
Eligibility
- Applicant must be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by an eligible Commonwealth country, or be a British Protected Person
- Applicant must be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country
- Applicant must be available to start academic studies in the United Kingdom by the start of the United Kingdom academic year in September 2022
- By September 2022, applicant must hold a first degree of at least upper second-class honours or a lower second-class degree and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a master’s degree)
- Not open to applicants that have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high-income country
- Applicant must be unable to afford to study at a United Kingdom university without the scholarship
- Applicant must provide all supporting documentation in the required format
- Open to candidates from Cameroon, Eswatini, The Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
