We are delighted to introduce the first cohort of Commonwealth Startup Fellows who began their programme this week with a bootcamp in Accra, Ghana. Below is the list of twenty businesses and their founders, who join the CSF programme. About the...
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The Host Organisations for the CSC Girls’ Education Programme are announced
Each year, the CSC offers Professional Fellowships for mid-career professionals from low- and middle-income countries to spend a period of time at a UK Host organisation for a programme of professional development. The Fellowships provide recipients with an...
New Chair of Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is announced
The CSC is delighted to announce that Professor Robin Mason has been announced as the new Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom by the Foreign, Development and Commonwealth Office (FCDO), and will take up duties from 1 January 2022. He...
The winning team of the joint Scholarships’ Climate Hackathon propose a solution to boost resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayas region
On 27 October 2021 we welcomed back four shortlisted teams to present to an audience of judges, fellow Alumni, and Scholars at the grand final policy hackathon event. The finalist teams were: 'Accessible Finance Brazil', 'Sunrise', 'IMAGED (Incentives for Mitigating...
The finalists of the joint Scholarships’ Alumni Climate Change Hackathon are announced
The climate crisis affects every person, every country and every region. Big ideas from the best minds are needed to help tackle this crisis. Between 19 October and 21 October 2021, 36 scholarship teams (representing over 130 alumni from Chevening, CSC, and Marshall)...
Commonwealth Scholars speak out on the future of international tertiary education
From 15-17 June 2021, the British Council hosted the virtual conference Going Global 2021, which this year was focused on the theme ‘Reimagining international tertiary education for a post-pandemic world’. Going Global is a conference on international education that...
Find out more about the impact of Commonwealth Scholars
The CSC’s Evaluation and Monitoring Programme aims to identify and quantify the impact of Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships on individuals, on institutions, and on a wider scale on communities and societies. This work is coordinated by a team at the CSC...
New Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships
The CSC welcomes today’s announcement by the UK government of a new programme of Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships. The fellowships – announced by the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation – will attract the brightest minds from across...
New Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships
The CSC welcomes today’s announcement by the UK government of a new programme of Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships. The fellowships – announced by the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation – will attract the brightest minds from across...
2017 entrants – Taylor & Francis Commonwealth Scholar Best Journal Article Prize
2017 winner Erasmus J Petrus Cilliers (2011 Scholar from South Africa, DPhil Economics, University of Oxford) Reconciling after civil conflict increases social capital but decreases individual well-being, Science (Volume 352, Issue 6287, 2016) 2017 highly commended...
