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Promoting dignity and inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community in Kenya
In December 2024, Commonwealth Alumnus Azenath Okemwa delivered a training workshop for community members in Kisii county, Kenya to raise awareness of the challenges faced by gender and sexual minorities and promote LGBTQ+ rights.
Nominations are in for Commonwealth Scholarship; what now?
Congratulations on receiving a nomination from your Nominating agency! This is the first step towards a Commonwealth scholarship. Every year the CSC invites Nominating agencies to recommend candidates to the Commission for consideration of a Master’s or PhD...
Launch of the Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
Today marks the launch of the Commonwealth Startup Fellowship, an exciting new programme delivered in partnership with the Imperial Enterprise Lab, designed to ignite and elevate high-potential startups from low-and- middle income Commonwealth countries. The...
Join the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission: Applications Now Open
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is seeking to appoint three new Commissioners to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC). The Commission provides the UK government’s scholarship scheme led by international development objectives. It...
65 Years of Impact- Celebrating the contributions of Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni in Ghana
On 13 December, the Commonwealth Scholars & Fellows Alumni, Ghana (CoSFAG) delivered an event for alumni in-country to celebrate 65 years of development impact through Commonwealth Scholarships. The event served to bring together alumni in Ghana to network and...
Development in Action webinar series: From Indian Navy to international trade: Commonwealth Scholarships enabling career transitions
On Tuesday 10 December 2024, Commonwealth Alumnus Lt Cdr Bidisha Pandey (Retd) delivered a webinar on ‘From Indian Navy to international trade: Commonwealth Scholarships enabling career transitions’. This webinar addressed the CSC development theme of, Promoting...
Towards a Knowledge Hub – Marking 65 years of Commonwealth Scholarships in Bangladesh
On 7 December, the Bangladesh Association of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows (BACSAF) held a summit to mark the 65th anniversary of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC). The summit brought together over 170 Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni from...
Supporting youth enterprise and entrepreneurship in Tanzania
On 15 November, Commonwealth Alumni in Tanzania facilitated a webinar on enterprise and entrepreneurship for young budding entrepreneurs and Commonwealth Alumni. The aims of the webinar were to discuss what it means to be an entrepreneur and the importance of...
Commonwealth Alumni in Zambia discuss the importance of access, inclusion and opportunity
On 6 December, the Commonwealth Alumni Association of Zambia (CAAZ) delivered an event exploring access, inclusion and opportunity. Titled, ‘Measuring the dimensions of the window of opportunity’, the event sought to address key aspects related to access, inclusion...
Findings from the CSC’s 65th Anniversary Commonwealth Alumni Census
Throughout 2024, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) is celebrating 65 years of delivering Commonwealth Scholarships to candidates of outstanding academic achievement and leadership ability. In April 2024, to mark its 65th anniversary, Commonwealth...
Latest Publications and Resources
Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarships 1960 – 2015
The CSC is extremely proud of its support for doctoral research and of the thousands of Commonwealth Alumni who have obtained their PhD as a result. This review, completed in 2017 looked at the Commonwealth PhD Scholarship programme from 1960-2015 by which point over...
Successes and complexities: the outcomes of UK Commonwealth Scholarships 1960-2012
The CSC's commitment to evaluation and monitoring and to understanding the post award experiences of its Scholars and Alumni led to the further expansion of its data gathering, with a refined survey building on the experience of the initial alumni impact survey...
A study of research methodology used in evaluations of international scholarship schemes for higher education
International scholarship schemes for higher education are widely supported by governments, supranational bodies, and charitable organisations as part of both public diplomacy and developmental assistance commitments. Although the objectives of many scholarship...
