Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows from the Asia-Pacific region are having an impact on key areas of importance to the region, including science, health, and education, according to a new report published by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK today. The...
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Assessing impact in the Asia-Pacific region
This report analyses the impact of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows in the Asia-Pacific region, which, for the purposes of the analysis, is divided into three sub-regions: Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and South East Asia. As well as outlining some of...
Assessing impact in building and sustaining Commonwealth principles on democracy
This report assesses the impact of our alumni on governance and democracy, principles which lie at the heart of the Commonwealth. The report takes as its main source the responses of alumni who reported having impact in at least one of four key priority areas for...
Serving the community
Josh Frydenberg (1996 Commonwealth Scholar, MPhil International Relations, University of Oxford) was elected as a Liberal MP for Kooyong in the state of Victoria, Australia, in 2010. At undergraduate level, Josh studied Law and Economics at Monash University. Josh...
Education and the Transformation of Young Women’s Lives: Commonwealth Perspectives
The Council for Education in the Commonwealth (CEC), The Centre for Commonwealth Education and The Centre for Education and International Development (Faculty of Education at Cambridge) are delighted to announce a two-part regional conference – 'Education and the...
Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2012
The Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards are your chance to bring your project to a global audience. It’s a competition to find good education practices in the Commonwealth. Shortlisted entrants will come to Mauritius in August 2012 to present their project at...
Commonwealth Scholarship inspired eminent legal career
Justice Anthe Philippides (a 1984 Commonwealth Scholar from Australia, LLM Cambridge University) has warm memories of her year at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, with inspirational teaching on new aspects of law. Anthe was privileged to study under the guidance...
Citizenship and the Commonwealth report published
Citizenship and the Commonwealth: The Active Commonwealth Citizen, the report of the inaugural Commonwealth Conference, has just been published by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS). Citizenship and the Commonwealth explores what it means to be a citizen of...
Alumnus is first woman to hold Cambridge Chair of Modern History
Professor Alexandra Walsham (1990 Commonwealth Scholar, PhD in History, University of Cambridge) recently became the first woman to hold the Chair of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. Alexandra’s research focus on the religious and cultural history of...
Alumni events in Australia and Trinidad
Four events have taken place for alumni in three cities in Australia and in Port of Spain, Trinidad recently. Dr John Kirkland, Executive Secretary of the CSC and Deputy Secretary General of the ACU, combined a conference in Australia with alumni events in Canberra,...
