British Council Country Director for South Africa Mr Colm McGivern recently hosted South Africa’s first welcome home reception for returning Commonwealth alumni on Wednesday 26th October in Johannesburg. In addition to 30 Commonwealth alumni were on-award South...
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Commonwealth alumni gather in Cape Town
Commonwealth alumni in Cape Town came together in October 2017Â to welcome home South African Commonwealth Scholars who recently completed their studies in the UK. At the event, James Phillips (Senior Alumni Engagement Officer at the CSC) reminded alumni to keep in...
Namibian Commonwealth alumni welcome home recent graduates
Namibian Commonwealth alumni recently came together in Windhoek to welcome back four Commonwealth Scholars who finished their studies and returned home earlier this year. The Hon Dr Becky Ndjoze-Ojo MP (Deputy Minister of Higher Education), Professor Osmund Mwandemele...
2016 Best Journal Article Prize presented to winner
Dr Olivia Faull, winner of the 2016 Taylor and Francis Commonwealth Scholar Best Journal Article Prize, was presented with her award at a recent event at the Wellcome Trust in London, UK. Olivia received her award from Richard Middleton, Chair of the CSC, and...
Study a Master’s in the UK – apply for a 2017 Commonwealth Shared Scholarship!
Applications are now open for Commonwealth Shared Scholarships for the 2017 academic year. Commonwealth Shared Scholarships support Master's study and are jointly funded by the CSC and UK universities. These fully-funded scholarships are intended for students from...
Rwandan Commonwealth alumni meet for first time
The first-ever Commonwealth alumni event in Rwanda was held in August 2016, as part of the opening day of the Association of Commonwealth Universities' Summer School at the University of Rwanda, Kigali. Alumni joined Summer School delegates for the introductory...
Alumni and Distance Learning Scholars link in Uganda
Ugandan Commonwealth alumni working within the public health sector met with current Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholars in Kampala in July 2016, to share their scholarship journey and talk about their current work. The Distance Learning Scholars – all studying at...
Malawian Commonwealth alumni meet applicants
Prospective Commonwealth Scholarship applicants had the chance to learn more about Commonwealth Scholarships directly from Malawian Commonwealth alumni at an event held at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust in Blantyre in August 2016. The event, which was hosted by...
Commonwealth alumni gather in Ghana
More than 60 Commonwealth alumni came together in Accra, Ghana, in July 2016 to celebrate the nearly 2,000 Ghanaian citizens who have benefited from a Commonwealth Scholarship since the scheme started in 1959. 75 Ghanaians have been selected to come to the UK on a...
Revisiting development plans – alumni symposium
British Council Zambia on behalf of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK recently hosted an alumni event in Kitwe, focused around a symposium at which alumni had the opportunity to discuss and measure their development plans post scholarship.  These...